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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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His announcement carried some suspense after interviews in which he said “<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/hp-leo-apotheker-2011-3">HP has lost its soul</a>” and added that he will “get rid of cynics” inside HP who try to undercut his mission. Now Leo has defined what his company calls Everybody On, which is described as “seamless, secure, context-aware experiences for a connected world.” He intends that HP will reposition itself in...</p> </div> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/03/24/hps-new-world-order-according-to-leo-apotheker"><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/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/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/collaboration">Collaboration</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/customer-contact-center">Customer & Contact Center</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/enterprise-software">Enterprise Software</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/hp">HP</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/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> <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/2011/03/21/the-business-intelligence-technology-revolution-in-2011">The Business Intelligence Technology Revolution in 2011</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 March 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 business intelligence (BI) technology market is undergoing a revolution. I’ve been working in this segment for 20 years, and it is and has been an exciting market in which to work, but its dynamic nature can be daunting to organizations trying to evaluate, purchase and deploy BI to improve their business processes. And despite the advances our <a href="//www.ventanaresearch.com/bipm">benchmark research</a> shows high levels of dissatisfaction with and immaturity in BI capabilities within organizations.</p> </div> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/03/21/the-business-intelligence-technology-revolution-in-2011"><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/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/collaboration">Collaboration</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/customer-contact-center">Customer & Contact Center</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/enterprise-software">Enterprise Software</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/information-technology">Information Technology</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> <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/2011/03/21/with-it-departments-companies-get-what-they-deserve">With IT Departments, Companies Get What They Deserve</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">20 March 2011 </span> </div> <hr>  </div> <div class="list-card-p"><div class="wrapingimage"> <img src="" width="200" !important:> </div> <p>One of the many interesting findings that came out of Ventana Research’s <a href="//www.ventanaresearch.com/bam">comprehensive benchmark research on business analytics</a> was partly buried in an analysis of maturity groups. The Maturity Index of our research benchmarks 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. We’ve conducted more than 100 benchmarks during the past seven years, covering...</p> </div> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/03/21/with-it-departments-companies-get-what-they-deserve"><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/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/collaboration">Collaboration</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/customer-contact-center">Customer & Contact Center</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/enterprise-software">Enterprise Software</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/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> <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/2011/03/18/business-collaboration-brings-together-people-and-technology">Business Collaboration Brings Together People and Technology</a></h2> <div class="author-meta"> Posted by <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/author/isg-software-research"> ISG Software Research </a> on <span class="post-date">17 March 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>In today’s competitive environment, people working in collaboration can make the difference between a company’s success or failure. But hitting “reply to all” on an e-mail chain isn’t the kind of collaboration I’m talking about. Neither is managing your employee and business communications with cups connected by string and Ouija boards.</p> </div> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/03/18/business-collaboration-brings-together-people-and-technology"><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/learning">Learning</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/performance">Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-analytics">Business Analytics</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-collaboration">Business Collaboration</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-mobility">Business Mobility</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-performance">Business Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/cloud-computing">Cloud Computing</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/collaboration">Collaboration</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/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/compensation">Compensation</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/talent-management">Talent Management</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/workforce-analytics">Workforce Analytics</a> <hr> </div> <div class="blog-index__post-content" style="margin-bottom: 80px"> <div class="post-meta"> <h2 style="font-size: 1.875rem;"><a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/03/18/four-steps-for-improving-the-customer-experience">Four Steps for Improving 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">17 March 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>There is a lot of talk today about customer experience management, but use of the term is vague, much as customer relationship management meant different things to different people. For some it is much the same as CRM, for others it is about using the voice of the customer to gain insights to make customer-related decisions. I have another view. Let’s consider phone calls, which according to my research into the use of <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="//www.ventanaresearch.com/cct">technology in contact centers</a>,</span> is still the main way consumers interact with...</p> </div> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/03/18/four-steps-for-improving-the-customer-experience"><span class="readmore"> Read More </span></a><br><br> Topics: <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/customer-experience">Customer Experience</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/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/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> <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/2011/03/18/sas-and-its-business-intelligence-information-management-direction">SAS and its Business Intelligence & Information Management Direction</a></h2> <div class="author-meta"> Posted by <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/author/isg-software-research"> ISG Software Research </a> on <span class="post-date">17 March 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>I recently attended SAS Institute’s annual analyst conference. My colleague covered the multibillion-dollar company’s <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="//marksmith.ventanaresearch.com/2011/03/15/sas-institute-the-multi-billion-dollar-business-analytics-supplier-2/">strategy and the event</a></span>. Now I want to look into some of the details of SAS’s products for business analytics and how they are supported with business intelligence (BI), and information management. Although SAS is not a publicly traded company and therefore is not required to make the financial disclosures that others are, the company revealed numerous financial statistics....</p> </div> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/03/18/sas-and-its-business-intelligence-information-management-direction"><span class="readmore"> Read More </span></a><br><br> Topics: <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sas">SAS</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/social-media">Social Media</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-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/business-technology">Business Technology</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/cio">CIO</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/collaboration">Collaboration</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/enterprise-software">Enterprise Software</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/mobility">Mobility</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/operational-intelligence">Operational Intelligence</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/2011/03/18/infors-hospitality-applications-software-business">Infor’s Hospitality Applications Software 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">17 March 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 hospitality industry has a complex structure. It is highly fragmented, with many small operations but also a significant number of global companies. Moreover, a property can be managed by one company (the brand name over the door) yet owned by another, which might be a one-off local real-estate partnership or a larger-scale owner of multiple sites. The consumer side of hospitality has its own challenges as well, resulting from the dramatic shifts brought about by the Internet in how people...</p> </div> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/03/18/infors-hospitality-applications-software-business"><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/hospitality">Hospitality</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/operational-performance">Operational Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/analytics">Analytics</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-intelligence">Business Intelligence</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-performance">Business Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/cio">CIO</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/customer-contact-center">Customer & Contact Center</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/enterprise-software">Enterprise Software</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/information-management">Information Management</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/2011/03/16/sas-institute-the-multi-billion-dollar-business-analytics-supplier-2">SAS Institute: The Multi-Billion Dollar Business Analytics Supplier</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">15 March 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 just-concluded SAS Institute analyst summit (Twitter: #SASSB) provided the annual update on the company’s performance, strategy, products and customers. My analysis of <a href="//www.ventanaresearch.com/blog/commentblog.aspx?id=3669">last year’s event</a> talked about its continuation of its product roadmap to new customer acquisition and the broadening of its underlying platform, applications and vertical solutions. SAS is no small-time mover and shaker when it comes to the analytics industry; it extends from technology to tools and applications across...</p> </div> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/03/16/sas-institute-the-multi-billion-dollar-business-analytics-supplier-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/sas">SAS</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/fraud">Fraud</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-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/business-technology">Business Technology</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/cio">CIO</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/collaboration">Collaboration</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/customer-contact-center">Customer & Contact Center</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/enterprise-software">Enterprise Software</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/information-technology">Information Technology</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/risk">Risk</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/2011/03/14/sap-enterprise-information-management-4-0-a-technology-secret">SAP Enterprise Information Management 4.0: A Technology Secret</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">13 March 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>SAP has launched its Enterprise Information Management (EIM) 4.0 release as part of its “<a href="https://www.sapevents.com/SAP/RunBetterTour/index.cfm?fuseaction=reg.Landing">Run Better Tour</a>.”  It includes a <a href="http://www.sap.com/solutions/sapbusinessobjects/large/eim/index.epx">broad range of information management components</a> spanning data integration, data quality, data profiling, metadata management and more. The launch was done in conjunction with <a href="//davidmenninger.ventanaresearch.com/2011/03/02/sap-business-intelligence-4-0/">SAP Business Intelligence (BI) 4.0</a>, which got much bigger billing at the event –to the point where one might call this a stealth marketing campaign. However, the event did identify three themes intended...</p> </div> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/03/14/sap-enterprise-information-management-4-0-a-technology-secret"><span class="readmore"> Read More </span></a><br><br> Topics: <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/data-quality">Data Quality</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/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-technology">Business Technology</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/cio">CIO</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/complex-event-processing">Complex Event Processing</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/data-governance">Data Governance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/data-integration">Data Integration</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/operational-intelligence">Operational Intelligence</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/2011/03/14/calltower-powers-communications-in-the-cloud">CallTower Powers Communications in the Cloud</a></h2> <div class="author-meta"> Posted by <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/author/isg-software-research"> ISG Software Research </a> on <span class="post-date">13 March 2011 </span> </div> <hr>  </div> <div class="list-card-p"><div class="wrapingimage"> <img src="" width="200" !important:> </div> <p>The contact center market is buzzing with talk about cloud-based computing. It began with applications such as <a href="http://www.salesforce.com/crm/">CRM from salesforce.com</a>, then came IBM with services based on <a href="http://www-935.ibm.com/services/us/cloud/">hardware in the cloud</a> and recently vendors such as <a href="http://www.contactual.com/">Contactual</a>, <a href="http://www.incontact.com/">inContact</a>, and <a href="http://liveops.com/index.html">LiveOps</a> have brought nearly complete contact centers into the cloud. As well, vendors such as Interactive Intelligence have announced <a href="http://www.inin.com/ProductSolutions/Pages/Communications-as-a-Service.aspx">communications in the cloud</a>. Now I have always considered public communications to be in the cloud: How else does...</p> </div> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/03/14/calltower-powers-communications-in-the-cloud"><span class="readmore"> Read More </span></a><br><br> Topics: <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/customer-experience">Customer Experience</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/calltower">CallTower</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/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> <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/2011/03/14/when-it-rains-">When It Rains, …</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">13 March 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>A colleague had written a piece about disaster recovery and business continuity – motivated not by the horrors that exploded over the television last night after an 8.9 earthquake off the coast of Japan triggered  a tsunami, but by unexpectedly heavy rain and snow in the northeast. Should he hold off publishing it, he asked, so as not to be seen as exploiting the disaster?</p> </div> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/03/14/when-it-rains-"><span class="readmore"> Read More </span></a><br><br> Topics: <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-continuity">Business Continuity</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/disaster-recovery">Disaster Recovery</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/it-performance">IT Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/cio">CIO</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/2011/03/11/aquire-brings-fresh-face-to-workforce-analytics">Aquire Brings Fresh Face to 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">10 March 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 state of the economy has intensified scrutiny of organizations’ people assets, and so we’re seeing new dialogues about human capital management. Deriving full value from the people in a workforce requires more than just HR managing annual performance reviews or occasional scrutiny of the compensation processes for increases to merit pay or incremental incentives. Investing wisely in workforce-related processes requires assessment and optimization using analytics that can provide a lens on...</p> </div> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/03/11/aquire-brings-fresh-face-to-workforce-analytics"><span class="readmore"> Read More </span></a><br><br> Topics: <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sales-performance">Sales Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/learning">Learning</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/performance">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-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/mobility">Mobility</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/workforce-performance">Workforce Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/compensation">Compensation</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/talent-management">Talent Management</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/workforce-analytics">Workforce Analytics</a> <hr> </div> <div class="blog-index__post-content" style="margin-bottom: 80px"> <div class="post-meta"> <h2 style="font-size: 1.875rem;"><a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/03/11/on-becoming-part-of-the-ventana-research-team">On Becoming Part of the Ventana Research Team</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">10 March 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>Hello there! Starting this week, I’m part of the best independent research team in the business – the <a href="//www.ventanaresearch.com/">Ventana Research</a> team – and I couldn’t be more thrilled. As the song goes, “What a long, strange trip it’s been” to get here.</p> </div> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/03/11/on-becoming-part-of-the-ventana-research-team"><span class="readmore"> Read More </span></a><br><br> Topics: <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/performance">Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/recruiting">Recruiting</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/onboarding">Onboarding</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/workforce-performance">Workforce Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/compensation">Compensation</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/hiring">Hiring</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/talent-management">Talent Management</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/workforce-performance-management">Workforce 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/2011/03/10/vpi-makes-contact-center-operations-suite-and-simple">VPI Makes Contact Center Operations Suite and Simple</a></h2> <div class="author-meta"> Posted by <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/author/isg-software-research"> ISG Software Research </a> on <span class="post-date">09 March 2011 </span> </div> <hr>  </div> <div class="list-card-p"><div class="wrapingimage"> <img src="" width="200" !important:> </div> <p>Running a contact center has never been easy, and today it is harder than ever. Customers have become more demanding of good service and less tolerant of errors and are inclined to communicate over multiple channels of communications. Companies not only have to get all the technology together to handle all these forms of interactions but must also ensure that their contact center agents are working as efficiently and effectively as possible. My latest research into the <a href="//www.ventanaresearch.com/cct">technologies</a> companies...</p> </div> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/03/10/vpi-makes-contact-center-operations-suite-and-simple"><span class="readmore"> Read More </span></a><br><br> Topics: <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/customer-experience">Customer Experience</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/vpi">VPI</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/operational-performance">Operational Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/cloud-computing">Cloud Computing</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> <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/2011/03/10/sas-institute-the-multi-billion-dollar-business-analytics-supplier">SAS Institute: The Multi-Billion Dollar Business Analytics Supplier</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">09 March 2011 </span> </div> <hr>  </div> <div class="list-card-p"><div class="wrapingimage"> <img src="" width="200" !important:> </div> <p>The just-concluded SAS Institute analyst summit (Twitter: #SASSB) provided the annual update on the company’s performance, strategy, products and customers. My analysis of <a href="//www.ventanaresearch.com/blog/commentblog.aspx?id=3669">last year’s event</a> talked about its continuation of its product roadmap to new customer acquisition and the broadening of its underlying platform, applications and vertical solutions. SAS is no small-time mover and shaker when it comes to the analytics industry; it extends from technology to tools and applications across...</p> </div> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/03/10/sas-institute-the-multi-billion-dollar-business-analytics-supplier"><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/sas">SAS</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/fraud">Fraud</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-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/business-technology">Business Technology</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/cio">CIO</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/collaboration">Collaboration</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/enterprise-software">Enterprise Software</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/information-technology">Information Technology</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/risk">Risk</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/2011/03/09/the-contact-center-technology-revolution-in-2011">The Contact Center Technology Revolution in 2011</a></h2> <div class="author-meta"> Posted by <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/author/isg-software-research"> ISG Software Research </a> on <span class="post-date">09 March 2011 </span> </div> <hr>  </div> <div class="list-card-p"><div class="wrapingimage"> <img src="" width="200" !important:> </div> <p>With the new year has come a significant advance in contact center technologies, enabling enterprises to roll out new applications and interaction-handling processes in record time. What used to take six months to a year to develop and deploy – and that was considered fast! – can now be done in a week or two, creating more potential for innovation in contact centers than I have seen in the last 20 years.</p> </div> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/03/09/the-contact-center-technology-revolution-in-2011"><span class="readmore"> Read More </span></a><br><br> Topics: <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/customer-experience">Customer Experience</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/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/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> <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/2011/03/05/aster-data-is-now-part-of-the-new-teradata">Aster Data is Now Part of the New Teradata</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 March 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>There has been a spate of acquisitions in the data warehousing and business analytics market in recent months. In May 2010 SAP announced an <a href="http://www.sap.com/press.epx?pressid=13202">agreement to acquire Sybase</a>, primarily for its mobility technology and had already been advancing its efforts with <a href="//davidmenninger.ventanaresearch.com/2011/03/02/sap-business-intelligence-4-0/">SAP HANA and BI</a>. In July 2010 EMC agreed to <a href="http://www.emc.com/about/news/press/2010/20100706-01.htm">acquire data warehouse appliance vendor Greenplum</a>. In <a href="//marksmith.ventanaresearch.com/2010/11/28/ibm-makes-major-buy-in-analytics-market-with-netezza/">September 2010 IBM countered by acquiring Netezza</a>, a competitor of Greenplum. In February 2011 HP announced <a href="//marksmith.ventanaresearch.com/2010/12/06/hp-gives-up-on-business-intelligence-and-analytics-markets/">after giving up on its original focus...</a></p> </div> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/03/05/aster-data-is-now-part-of-the-new-teradata"><span class="readmore"> Read More </span></a><br><br> Topics: <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/data-warehousing">Data Warehousing</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/microsoft">Microsoft</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/rdbms">RDBMS</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sas">SAS</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/teradata">Teradata</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/it-performance">IT Performance</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/data-management">Data Management</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/hp">HP</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/ibm">IBM</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/information-management">Information Management</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/oracle">Oracle</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/2011/03/04/secrets-revealed-in-columnar-database-technology">Secrets Revealed in Columnar Database Technology</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 March 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>This is the second in a series of posts on the architectures of analytic databases. The first post addressed <a href="//davidmenninger.ventanaresearch.com/2011/01/19/secrets-revealed-in-massively-parallel-processing-and-database-technology/">massively parallel processing (MPP) and database technology</a>. In this post, we’ll look at columnar database technology. Given the <a href="http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/press/2011/110214xb.html">recent announcement</a> of HP’s plan to acquire Vertica, a columnar database vendor, there is likely to be even more interest in columnar database technology, how it operates and what benefits it offers.</p> </div> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/03/04/secrets-revealed-in-columnar-database-technology"><span class="readmore"> Read More </span></a><br><br> Topics: <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/data-warehousing">Data Warehousing</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/rdbms">RDBMS</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/it-performance">IT Performance</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/data-management">Data Management</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/information-management">Information Management</a> <hr> </div> <div class="blog-index__post-content" style="margin-bottom: 80px"> <div class="post-meta"> <h2 style="font-size: 1.875rem;"><a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/03/04/human-concepts-brings-workforce-analytics-and-mobility-to-the-cloud">Human Concepts Brings Workforce Analytics and Mobility to 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">03 March 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 Human Concepts sold its personal organizational structure software <a href="http://www.humanconcepts.com/press-release/2011/humanconcepts-orgplus.htm">OrgPlus to Administaff </a>. Since it retains other products with the OrgPlus name, this step might seem puzzling, but it makes sense in terms of the company’s developing product strategy. The sale also frees Human Concepts to focus on organizations with more than 1,000 employees, where growth is more readily available. Human Concepts is experienced in the workforce management market; its customer and partner Zentiva Group...</p> </div> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/03/04/human-concepts-brings-workforce-analytics-and-mobility-to-the-cloud"><span class="readmore"> Read More </span></a><br><br> Topics: <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/learning">Learning</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/performance">Performance</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/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/compensation">Compensation</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/talent-management">Talent Management</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/workforce-analytics">Workforce Analytics</a> <hr> </div> <div class="blog-index__post-content" style="margin-bottom: 80px"> <div class="post-meta"> <h2 style="font-size: 1.875rem;"><a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/03/03/living-in-the-era-of-hadoop-and-large-scale-data">Living in the Era of Hadoop and Large-Scale Data</a></h2> <div class="author-meta"> Posted by <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/author/isg-software-research"> ISG Software Research </a> on <span class="post-date">02 March 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>It’s clear that now we are living in the era of big data. The stores of data on which modern businesses rely are already vast and increasing at an unprecedented pace. Organizations are capturing data at deeper levels of detail and keeping more history than they ever have before. Managing all of the data is thus emerging as one of the key challenges of the new decade.</p> </div> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/03/03/living-in-the-era-of-hadoop-and-large-scale-data"><span class="readmore"> Read More </span></a><br><br> Topics: <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/data-warehousing">Data Warehousing</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/rdbms">RDBMS</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/it-performance">IT Performance</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/data-management">Data Management</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/2011/03/02/sap-business-intelligence-4-0">SAP Business Intelligence 4.0</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">01 March 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>Last week SAP launched the 4.0 Release of its Business Intelligence and Enterprise Information Management products in conjunction with the New York City stop on its “<a href="https://www.sapevents.com/SAP/RunBetterTour/index.cfm?fuseaction=reg.Landing">SAP Run Better Tour</a>”. My colleague Mark Smith has already covered the announcement in the context of some of today’s<a href="//marksmith.ventanaresearch.com/2011/02/25/sap-retrofits-business-intelligence-and-information-management-to-meet-it-and-business-needs/"> major technology trends</a>. In this post, I’ll focus on the specifics of the product announcements.</p> </div> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/03/02/sap-business-intelligence-4-0"><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/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-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/business-technology">Business Technology</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/cio">CIO</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/collaboration">Collaboration</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/enterprise-software">Enterprise Software</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/information-technology">Information Technology</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> <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/2011/03/01/bringing-tax-into-mainstream-finance">Bringing Tax Into Mainstream 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">01 March 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>Taxes are a big expense for most companies, profitable or not. Many larger and midsize companies must traverse a complex and constantly shifting landscape of tax rules, rates, and jurisdictions. I’ve previously written about the need for corporations to <a href="//robertkugel.ventanaresearch.com/2010/11/27/corporations-must-manage-taxes-more-intelligently">manage their taxes more intelligently</a>, and that that may require <a href="//robertkugel.ventanaresearch.com/2011/02/21/your-company-needs-a-tax-technology-expert/">someone in the tax department</a> who understands both the department’s functional requirements and what information technology can do to improve those functions. Today I am going to...</p> </div> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/03/01/bringing-tax-into-mainstream-finance"><span class="readmore"> Read More </span></a><br><br> Topics: <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/tax">Tax</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-performance">Business Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/financial-performance">Financial Performance</a>, <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/cfo">CFO</a>, <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> <script> // Check active classes var checkClass = function() { if ( $('.fil_item').hasClass('hide') ) { $('.fil_item').removeClass('hide'); } }; // Category filters $('.all').click( function() { checkClass(); }); // Active tag $('.bttn').click(function(){ $('.bttn').removeClass('active'); $(this).addClass('active'); }) </script> </div> <div class="blog-numeric-pagination span12 ">   </div> </div> <div class="blog-sidebar">   <style> .blog-sidebar h3 { font-size: 18px; margin-bottom: 30px; position: relative; color: var(--light_blue); padding-top:40px; } .btn-secondary, .filter-expand-link { text-transform: uppercase; background-color: #113049!important; border-color: #113049!important; color: #ffffff!important; transition: all .15s ease-in-out; animation-timing-function: ease-in-out; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: 500; text-decoration: none; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.4000000000000001rem; border-radius: 6px; height: 3.5rem; text-align: center; padding: 0 2.8125rem; border: 1px solid; display: -webkit-inline-box; display: -ms-inline-flexbox; display: inline-flex; -webkit-box-align: center; -ms-flex-align: center; align-items: center; } .filter-expand-link { text-transform: uppercase; background-color: #113049!important; border-color: #113049!important; color: #ffffff!important; transition: all .15s ease-in-out; animation-timing-function: ease-in-out; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: 500; text-decoration: none; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.4000000000000001rem; border-radius: 6px; height: 3.5rem; text-align: center; padding: 0 2.8125rem; border: 1px solid; display: -webkit-inline-box; display: -ms-inline-flexbox; display: inline-flex; -webkit-box-align: center; -ms-flex-align: center; align-items: center; } </style> <span class="hs-cta-wrapper" id="hs-cta-wrapper-960cd0b7-7494-40d3-ac1c-5825d5a075be"><span class="hs-cta-node hs-cta-960cd0b7-7494-40d3-ac1c-5825d5a075be" id="hs-cta-960cd0b7-7494-40d3-ac1c-5825d5a075be"><a href="https://cta-redirect.hubspot.com/cta/redirect/2035844/960cd0b7-7494-40d3-ac1c-5825d5a075be"><img class="hs-cta-img" id="hs-cta-img-960cd0b7-7494-40d3-ac1c-5825d5a075be" style="border-width:0px;" src="https://no-cache.hubspot.com/cta/default/2035844/960cd0b7-7494-40d3-ac1c-5825d5a075be.png" alt="JOIN OUR COMMUNITY"></a></span><script charset="utf-8" src="https://js.hscta.net/cta/current.js"></script><script type="text/javascript"> hbspt.cta.load(2035844, '960cd0b7-7494-40d3-ac1c-5825d5a075be', {"useNewLoader":"true","region":"na1"}); </script></span> <span id="hs_cos_wrapper_module_1495215326694198" class="hs_cos_wrapper hs_cos_wrapper_widget hs_cos_wrapper_type_rich_text" style="" data-hs-cos-general-type="widget" data-hs-cos-type="rich_text"><h3><span style="color: #284a7b;">Our Analyst Perspective Policy</span></h3> <ul> <li style="display: none; list-style: none;"> <p><span style="color: #284a7b;">Ventana Research’s Analyst Perspectives are fact-based analysis and guidance on business, </span><g class="gr_ gr_12 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim Punctuation only-ins replaceWithoutSep" id="12" data-gr-id="12">industry</g><span style="color: #284a7b;"> and technology vendor trends. 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100px) 100vw, 100px" srcset="https://blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/_images/_team/Menninger.David%20Pic.Circle.png?width=50&name=Menninger.David%20Pic.Circle.png 50w, https://blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/_images/_team/Menninger.David%20Pic.Circle.png?width=100&name=Menninger.David%20Pic.Circle.png 100w, https://blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/_images/_team/Menninger.David%20Pic.Circle.png?width=150&name=Menninger.David%20Pic.Circle.png 150w, https://blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/_images/_team/Menninger.David%20Pic.Circle.png?width=200&name=Menninger.David%20Pic.Circle.png 200w, https://blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/_images/_team/Menninger.David%20Pic.Circle.png?width=250&name=Menninger.David%20Pic.Circle.png 250w, https://blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/_images/_team/Menninger.David%20Pic.Circle.png?width=300&name=Menninger.David%20Pic.Circle.png 300w"> <h5 class="analyst_name">David Menninger</h5> </a> </div> <div class="span6" style="text-align: center;"> <a href="https://jefforr.isg-research.net"> <img class="analyst_img" style="width: 100px;" src="https://blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/_images/_team/Orr.Jeff.Circle.png?width=100&name=Orr.Jeff.Circle.png" alt="Jeff Orr" width="100" data-constrained="true" caption="false" srcset="https://blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/_images/_team/Orr.Jeff.Circle.png?width=50&name=Orr.Jeff.Circle.png 50w, https://blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/_images/_team/Orr.Jeff.Circle.png?width=100&name=Orr.Jeff.Circle.png 100w, https://blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/_images/_team/Orr.Jeff.Circle.png?width=150&name=Orr.Jeff.Circle.png 150w, https://blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/_images/_team/Orr.Jeff.Circle.png?width=200&name=Orr.Jeff.Circle.png 200w, https://blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/_images/_team/Orr.Jeff.Circle.png?width=250&name=Orr.Jeff.Circle.png 250w, https://blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/_images/_team/Orr.Jeff.Circle.png?width=300&name=Orr.Jeff.Circle.png 300w" sizes="(max-width: 100px) 100vw, 100px"> <h5 class="analyst_name">Jeff Orr</h5> </a> </div> </div>   <div class="row-fluid"> <div class="span6" style="text-align: center;"> <a href="https://keithdawson.isg-research.net"> <img class="analyst_img" style="width: 100px;" src="https://blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/_images/_team/Dawson.Keith%20Pic.Circle.png?width=100&name=Dawson.Keith%20Pic.Circle.png" alt="Keith Dawson" width="100" data-constrained="true" caption="false" sizes="(max-width: 100px) 100vw, 100px" srcset="https://blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/_images/_team/Dawson.Keith%20Pic.Circle.png?width=50&name=Dawson.Keith%20Pic.Circle.png 50w, https://blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/_images/_team/Dawson.Keith%20Pic.Circle.png?width=100&name=Dawson.Keith%20Pic.Circle.png 100w, https://blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/_images/_team/Dawson.Keith%20Pic.Circle.png?width=150&name=Dawson.Keith%20Pic.Circle.png 150w, https://blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/_images/_team/Dawson.Keith%20Pic.Circle.png?width=200&name=Dawson.Keith%20Pic.Circle.png 200w, https://blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/_images/_team/Dawson.Keith%20Pic.Circle.png?width=250&name=Dawson.Keith%20Pic.Circle.png 250w, https://blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/_images/_team/Dawson.Keith%20Pic.Circle.png?width=300&name=Dawson.Keith%20Pic.Circle.png 300w"> <h5 class="analyst_name">Keith Dawson</h5> </a> </div> <div class="span6" style="text-align:center;"> <a href="https://marksmith.isg-research.net"> <img class="analyst_img" style="width: 100px;" src="https://blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/_images/_team/Smith.Mark%20Pic.Circle.png?width=100&name=Smith.Mark%20Pic.Circle.png" alt="Mark Smith" width="100" data-constrained="true" caption="false" sizes="(max-width: 100px) 100vw, 100px" srcset="https://blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/_images/_team/Smith.Mark%20Pic.Circle.png?width=50&name=Smith.Mark%20Pic.Circle.png 50w, https://blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/_images/_team/Smith.Mark%20Pic.Circle.png?width=100&name=Smith.Mark%20Pic.Circle.png 100w, https://blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/_images/_team/Smith.Mark%20Pic.Circle.png?width=150&name=Smith.Mark%20Pic.Circle.png 150w, https://blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/_images/_team/Smith.Mark%20Pic.Circle.png?width=200&name=Smith.Mark%20Pic.Circle.png 200w, https://blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/_images/_team/Smith.Mark%20Pic.Circle.png?width=250&name=Smith.Mark%20Pic.Circle.png 250w, https://blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/_images/_team/Smith.Mark%20Pic.Circle.png?width=300&name=Smith.Mark%20Pic.Circle.png 300w"> <h5 class="analyst_name">Mark Smith</h5> </a> </div> </div>   <div class="row-fluid"> <div class="span6" style="text-align: center;"> <a href="https://mattaslett.isg-research.net"> <img class="analyst_img" style="width: 100px;" src="https://blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/_images/_team/Aslett.Matt%20Pic.Circle.png?width=100&name=Aslett.Matt%20Pic.Circle.png" alt="Matt Aslett" width="100" data-constrained="true" caption="false" sizes="(max-width: 100px) 100vw, 100px" srcset="https://blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/_images/_team/Aslett.Matt%20Pic.Circle.png?width=50&name=Aslett.Matt%20Pic.Circle.png 50w, https://blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/_images/_team/Aslett.Matt%20Pic.Circle.png?width=100&name=Aslett.Matt%20Pic.Circle.png 100w, https://blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/_images/_team/Aslett.Matt%20Pic.Circle.png?width=150&name=Aslett.Matt%20Pic.Circle.png 150w, https://blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/_images/_team/Aslett.Matt%20Pic.Circle.png?width=200&name=Aslett.Matt%20Pic.Circle.png 200w, https://blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/_images/_team/Aslett.Matt%20Pic.Circle.png?width=250&name=Aslett.Matt%20Pic.Circle.png 250w, https://blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/_images/_team/Aslett.Matt%20Pic.Circle.png?width=300&name=Aslett.Matt%20Pic.Circle.png 300w"> <h5 class="analyst_name">Matt Aslett</h5> </a> </div> <div class="span6" style="text-align: center;"> <a href="https://matthewbrown.isg-research.net/"> <img class="analyst_img" style="width: 100px;" src="https://blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/_images/_team/profile_vr_matthew_brown_circle_900x900.png?width=100&name=profile_vr_matthew_brown_circle_900x900.png" alt="Matthew Brown" width="100" data-constrained="true" caption="false" sizes="(max-width: 100px) 100vw, 100px" srcset="https://blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/_images/_team/profile_vr_matthew_brown_circle_900x900.png?width=50&name=profile_vr_matthew_brown_circle_900x900.png 50w, https://blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/_images/_team/profile_vr_matthew_brown_circle_900x900.png?width=100&name=profile_vr_matthew_brown_circle_900x900.png 100w, https://blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/_images/_team/profile_vr_matthew_brown_circle_900x900.png?width=150&name=profile_vr_matthew_brown_circle_900x900.png 150w, https://blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/_images/_team/profile_vr_matthew_brown_circle_900x900.png?width=200&name=profile_vr_matthew_brown_circle_900x900.png 200w, https://blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/_images/_team/profile_vr_matthew_brown_circle_900x900.png?width=250&name=profile_vr_matthew_brown_circle_900x900.png 250w, https://blog.isg-research.net/hs-fs/hubfs/_images/_team/profile_vr_matthew_brown_circle_900x900.png?width=300&name=profile_vr_matthew_brown_circle_900x900.png 300w"> <h5 class="analyst_name">Matthew Brown</h5> </a> </div> </div>   <div class="row-fluid"> <div class="span6" style="text-align: center;"> <a href="https://robertkugel.isg-research.net"> <img class="analyst_img" style="width: 100px;" 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href="https://blog.isg-research.net/archive/2015/01">January 2015 <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(14)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/archive/2014/12">December 2014 <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(8)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/archive/2014/11">November 2014 <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(6)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/archive/2014/10">October 2014 <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(6)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/archive/2014/09">September 2014 <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(10)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/archive/2014/08">August 2014 <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(7)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a 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href="https://blog.isg-research.net/archive/2013/07">July 2013 <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(12)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/archive/2013/06">June 2013 <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(13)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/archive/2013/05">May 2013 <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(21)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/archive/2013/04">April 2013 <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(19)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/archive/2013/03">March 2013 <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(35)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/archive/2013/02">February 2013 <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(27)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a 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href="https://blog.isg-research.net/archive/2011/07">July 2011 <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(12)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/archive/2011/06">June 2011 <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(22)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/archive/2011/05">May 2011 <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(28)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/archive/2011/04">April 2011 <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(19)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/archive/2011/03">March 2011 <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(22)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/archive/2011/02">February 2011 <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(15)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/archive/2011/01">January 2011 <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(8)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/archive/2010/12">December 2010 <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(21)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/archive/2010/11">November 2010 <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(132)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/archive/2010/06">June 2010 <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> </ul> <a class="filter-expand-link" href="#">see all</a> </div> </div> </span> <span id="hs_cos_wrapper_post_filter" class="hs_cos_wrapper hs_cos_wrapper_widget hs_cos_wrapper_type_post_filter" style="" data-hs-cos-general-type="widget" data-hs-cos-type="post_filter"><div class="block"> <h3>Posts by Topic</h3> <div class="widget-module"> <ul> <li> <a 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style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/board-international">BOARD International <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/board-of-directors">board of directors <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/bots">bots <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(4)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/box">box <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/bribery">bribery <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/budget">budget <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(5)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/budgeting">Budgeting <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(74)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/budgeting-and-planning">budgeting and planning <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/budgeting-software">budgeting software <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business">Business <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-activity-monitoring">business activity 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-analytics">Business Analytics <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(663)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-applications">Business Applications <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(4)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-collaboration">Business Collaboration <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(361)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-continuity">Business Continuity <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(22)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-digital-commerce">business digital commerce <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-innovation">business innovation <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-intelligence">Business Intelligence <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(666)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-intelligence-3">business intelligence <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(38)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-intelligence-2">business intelligence <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(15)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-intelligence-business-analytics-cloud-clo">Business Intelligence, Business Analytics, Cloud, <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/business-mobility">Business Mobility <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(160)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a 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">(96)</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">(11)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/consolidate-close-report">Consolidate/Close/Report <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(17)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/consolidating">consolidating <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/consolidation">Consolidation <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(28)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/consulting">Consulting <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(4)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/contact-center">Contact Center <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(437)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/contact-center-analytics">Contact Center Analytics <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(226)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/contactual">Contactual <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/container">container <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/content-management">Content Management <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/contingency">contingency <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/contingency-planning">contingency planning <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(5)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/continuous-accounting">Continuous Accounting <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(9)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/continuous-improvement">continuous improvement <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/continuous-payroll">Continuous Payroll <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(27)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/continuous-planning">Continuous Planning <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(60)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/continuous-supply-chain">continuous supply chain <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(42)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/continuous-supply-chain-erp">Continuous Supply Chain & ERP <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(13)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/continuous-threat-exposure-management">Continuous Threat Exposure Management <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/contract">contract <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/contract-management">contract management <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/control">control <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/controller">Controller <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(36)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/controller-2">controller <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(4)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/controls">controls <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(4)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/conversational-ai">Conversational AI <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/conversational-computing">Conversational Computing <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(45)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/conversational-marketing">Conversational Marketing <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(7)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/coo">COO <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(10)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/core-hr">Core HR <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/cornerstone-ondemand">Cornerstone OnDemand <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(5)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/corporate-finance">Corporate Finance <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(8)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/corporate-governance">Corporate Governance <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/corvisa-cloud">Corvisa Cloud <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/cost-management">Cost 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 href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/decusoft">Decusoft <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/deep-learning">Deep Learning <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/dell">Dell <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/dell-boomi">Dell Boomi <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/demand-chain">Demand Chain <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/demand-generation">Demand Generation <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/demand-management">demand management <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(5)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/demand-planning">Demand Planning <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(4)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/design">design <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/designed-data">designed data <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/desktop-analytics">Desktop Analytics <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(124)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/development">development <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/devops-and-platforms">DevOps and Platforms <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(4)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/devsecops">DevSecOps <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/df11">DF11 <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/dg">DG <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/dhcp">DHCP <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/digital-applications">Digital Applications <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(4)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/digital-business">Digital Business <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(47)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/digital-commerce">Digital Commerce <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(104)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/digital-communications">Digital Communications <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(8)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/digital-experience-platform">Digital Experience Platform <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(5)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/digital-finance">digital finance <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(106)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/digital-innovation-awards">Digital Innovation Awards <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/digital-intelligence">Digital Intelligence <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/digital-interviewing">Digital Interviewing <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/digital-marketing">Digital Marketing <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(28)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/digital-operations">Digital Operations <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/digital-publishing">Digital Publishing <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/digital-security">Digital Security <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(23)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/digital-technology">Digital Technology <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(292)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/digital-transformation">Digital transformation <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(20)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/direct-data-mapping">Direct Data Mapping <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/disaster-recovery">Disaster Recovery <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/discovery">Discovery <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(6)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/discovery-analytics">discovery analytics <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/discovery-tools">discovery tools <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/distribution">distribution <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/dns">DNS <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/document-management">Document Management <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(12)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/dodd-frank">Dodd-Frank <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/domestic-payroll">Domestic Payroll <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/domo">Domo <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(5)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/dovetail">Dovetail <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/dreamforce">Dreamforce <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(4)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/driver-analysis">driver analysis <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/driver-based">driver-based <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(14)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/driver-based-planning">driver-based planning <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/dynamics">Dynamics <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/dynamics-ax">Dynamics AX <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(9)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/dynamics-gp">Dynamics GP <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(9)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/dynamics-nav-dynamics-sl">Dynamics NAV Dynamics SL <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(9)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/e-discovery">e-discovery <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/echopass">Echopass <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/eclipse">Eclipse <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/edi">EDI <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/ediscovery">eDiscovery <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/editorial">Editorial <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/effectiveness">effectiveness <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/eg-solutions">eg Solutions <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/elasticube">elasticube <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/eloqua">Eloqua <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/embedded-analytics">embedded analytics <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(95)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/emc">EMC <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/employee-engagement">Employee Engagement <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(9)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/employee-experience">employee experience <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(47)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/employee-onboarding">Employee Onboarding <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/employee-productivity">Employee Productivity <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/empower">Empower <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/end-to-end">end-to-end <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(7)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/endeca">endeca <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/enghouse-interactive">Enghouse interactive <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(5)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/enkata">Enkata <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(6)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/enterprise-applications">Enterprise Applications <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/enterprise-data-strategy">Enterprise Data Strategy <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(8)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/enterprise-messaging-internet-of-things-iot-middle">Enterprise messaging, Internet of Things, IoT, mid <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/enterprise-profitability-management">enterprise profitability management <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/enterprise-resource-planning">Enterprise Resource Planning <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(72)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/enterprise-risk-management">enterprise risk management <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/enterprise-software">Enterprise Software <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(27)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/enterprise-spreadsheet">enterprise spreadsheet <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(7)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/enterprise-tax">Enterprise Tax <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/enterworks">Enterworks <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/environment-management">Environment Management <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/environmental">Environmental <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/envision">Envision <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/epicor">Epicor <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/epiphany">Epiphany <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/equifax">Equifax <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/equity-research">equity research <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/erm">ERM <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/erp">ERP <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(83)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/erp-and-continuous-accounting">ERP and Continuous Accounting <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(151)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/error">error <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/esg">ESG <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/esri">ESRI <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/essbase">Essbase <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/ethority">eThority <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/event-data">Event Data <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/event-discovery">Event discovery <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/event-stream">Event Stream <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/event-stream-processing">Event Stream Processing <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/event-streams">Event Streams <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/exacttarget">ExactTarget <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/exadata">exadata <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/exalytics">Exalytics <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/excel">Excel <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/excentive">Excentive <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/executive">executive <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/expense">expense <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/expense-management">expense management <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/experience-management">Experience Management <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(9)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/expert-systems">Expert Systems <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/exploration">Exploration <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/exploratory-analytics">exploratory analytics <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/explorium">Explorium <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/extended-close">extended close <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(4)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/extended-reality">extended reality <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(16)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/external-data-platform">External Data Platform <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/exterro">Exterro <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/f-type">F-Type <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/fasb">FASB <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(4)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/fast-close">Fast close <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/feedback">Feedback <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/fei">FEI <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/ferf-ceo">FERF CEO <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/field-service">Field Service <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(29)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/finance">finance <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(53)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/finance-analytics">Finance Analytics <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(7)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/finance-cloud">finance cloud <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/finance-financial-applications-financial-close">Finance Financial Applications Financial Close <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/finance-performance-management">Finance Performance Management <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/finance-transformation">finance transformation <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(9)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/financial">financial <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/financial-analytics">financial analytics <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/financial-applications">Financial Applications <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(5)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/financial-close">Financial Close <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(5)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/financial-governance">Financial Governance <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/financial-management">Financial Management <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(7)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/financial-model">financial model <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/financial-performance">Financial Performance <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(561)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/financial-performance-2">financial performance <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/financial-performance-management">Financial Performance Management <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(237)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/financial-performance-management-fpm">Financial Performance Management (FPM) <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(14)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/financial-planning">financial planning <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(6)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/financial-regulation">financial regulation <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/financial-reporting">financial reporting <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(15)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/financial-risk-management">financial risk management <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(5)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/financial-services">Financial Services <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(8)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/financial-software">financial software <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/financial-standards">financial standards <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/financial-statement">financial statement <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/financial-systems">financial systems <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/financialforce">FinancialForce <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(15)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/financialforce-com">FinancialForce.com <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/financials">financials <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/five9">Five9 <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/flow">flow <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/fms">FMS <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/for-example-genesys">for example Genesys <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/forecast">Forecast <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(9)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/forecasting">forecasting <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/fpa">FP&A <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(22)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/fpm">FPM <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(83)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/fraud">Fraud <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(8)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/fuel50">Fuel50 <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/fusion-applications">Fusion Applications <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/gaap">GAAP <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(10)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/gamifiacation">Gamifiacation <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/gartner">Gartner <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/genai">GenAI <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/generative-ai">Generative AI <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(38)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/genesys">Genesys <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(10)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/geographic-information-systems">Geographic Information Systems <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/gis">GIS <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/global-payroll">Global Payroll <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/globoforce">Globoforce <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/golden-records">Golden Records. <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/gooddata">Gooddata <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/google">Google <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(10)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/governance">Governance <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(49)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/governance-risk">Governance & Risk <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(4)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/governance-risk-and-compliance">Governance Risk and Compliance <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/governance-risk-compliance-grc">Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC) <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(143)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/grc">GRC <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(55)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/grc-governance-risk-compliance-risk-management-wat">GRC, governance, risk, compliance, risk management <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/green">Green <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/greenplum">Greenplum <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/gui">GUI <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/hadoop">Hadoop <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/hana">HANA <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(9)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/harvard-business-review">Harvard Business Review <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/hawq">HAWQ <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/hcm">HCM <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(57)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/hcm-analytics">HCM Analytics <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/hcm-systems">HCM Systems <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/hcm-hr-hrms-workforce-management-learning-manageme">HCM, HR, HRMS, Workforce Management, Learning Mana <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/hdfs">HDFS <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/hdinsights">HDinsights <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/hdp">HDP <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/headcount-planning">headcount planning <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/healthcare-compliance">Healthcare Compliance <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/healthcare-reform">Healthcare Reform <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/heiler">Heiler <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/hewlett-packard">Hewlett Packard <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/hirevue">HireVue <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/hiring">Hiring <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(10)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/hive">Hive <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/hive9-marketing-performance-management">Hive9 Marketing Performance Management <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/hortonworks">Hortonworks <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(14)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/hospitality">Hospitality <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/host-analytics">Host Analytics <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(4)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/hp">HP <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(7)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/hp-neoview">HP Neoview <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/hp-touchpad">HP Touchpad <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/hr">HR <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(56)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/hr-analytics">HR Analytics <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/hr-management">HR Management <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(4)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/hr-managementhrms">HR Management(HRMS) <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/hr-research">HR research <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/hr-tech">HR Tech <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/hr-technology">HR technology <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(5)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/hr-technology-conference">HR Technology Conference <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/hrpayroll">HR/Payroll <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/hris">HRIS <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/hrms">HRMS <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(47)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/html5">HTML5 <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/hubspot">HubSpot <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/human-capital">Human Capital <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(45)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/human-capital-analytics">Human Capital Analytics <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(4)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/human-capital-management">Human Capital Management <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(308)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/human-concepts">Human Concepts <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/human-resources-management">Human Resources Management <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/hunite">Hunite <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/hybrid-cloud-platforms">Hybrid Cloud Platforms <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/hybris">Hybris <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/hyperion">Hyperion <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(4)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/i9">I9 <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/iac">IaC <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/iasb">IASB <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(4)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/ibm">IBM <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(73)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/ibm-business-analytics">IBM Business Analytics <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/ibm-db2">IBM DB2 <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/ibm-predictive-customer-intelligence">IBM Predictive Customer Intelligence <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/ibm-spss">IBM SPSS <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/ibm-watson">IBM Watson <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(8)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/ibp">IBP <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(4)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/ifrs">IFRS <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(11)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/ifrs16">IFRS16 <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/impala">Impala <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/in-memory">In-memory <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(26)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/in-memory-computing">In-Memory Computing <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(6)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/inclusion">Inclusion <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/incontact">InContact <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(6)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/industry-analyst">Industry Analyst <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(7)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/inetsoft">InetSoft <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(4)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/influencers">Influencers <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/infodiscovery">InfoDiscovery <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/infomgt-location">InfoMgt; Location <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/infopia">InfoPia <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/infor">Infor <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(31)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/infor-birst">Infor Birst <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/informatica">Informatica <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(22)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/informatica-cloud">Informatica Cloud <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/informatica-hparser">Informatica HParser <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/informatica-world">Informatica World <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/informatics">Informatics <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/information">Information <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/information-applications">Information Applications <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(222)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/information-availability">Information Availability <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/information-builder-iway">Information Builder iway <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/information-builders">Information Builders <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(13)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/information-builders-summit-2019">Information Builders Summit 2019 <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/information-discovery">Information Discovery <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(4)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/information-life-cycle-management">Information Life Cycle Management <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/information-management">Information Management <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(381)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/information-management-im">Information Management (IM) <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(11)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/information-optimization">Information Optimization <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(52)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/information-platform">Information Platform <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/information-technology">Information Technology <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(47)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/infosphere">InfoSphere <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/initiatives-management">Initiatives Management <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/initiatives-planning">Initiatives Planning <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/inkling">inkling <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <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 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class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/pardot">Pardot <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/partner-experience">Partner Experience <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/partner-management">partner management <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(12)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/patersons">Patersons <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/paxata">Paxata <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/pay-equity">Pay Equity <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/pay-for-performance">Pay for Performance <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/payroll-management">Payroll Management <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(17)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/payroll-optimization">Payroll Optimization <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(7)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/pdi">PDI <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/pentaho">Pentaho <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(9)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/people-analytics">People Analytics <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/people-cloud">People Cloud <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/peoplefluent">Peoplefluent <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(9)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/peoplesoft">PeopleSoft <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/performance">Performance <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(30)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/performance-analytics">Performance Analytics <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/performance-management">Performance Management <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(89)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/perillon">Perillon <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/personalization">Personalization <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/pervasive">Pervasive <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/pim">PIM <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(5)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/pim-product-information-management-sales-marketing">PIM, Product Information Management, Sales, Market <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/pipkins">Pipkins <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/pitney-bowes">Pitney Bowes <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/pivotal-hd">Pivotal HD <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/pivotlink">PivotLink <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/planmill">PlanMill <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/planning">Planning <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(88)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/planview">Planview <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(6)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/plateau">Plateau <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(4)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/platfora">Platfora <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/platform-as-a-service">Platform as a service <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/playbook">Playbook <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(4)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/plex">Plex <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(9)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/plunk">Plunk <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/portfolio-management">Portfolio Management <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/portrait-software">Portrait Software <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/potus-department-of-labor-flsa-part-541-overtime-r">POTUS, Department of Labor, FLSA, Part 541, Overti <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/powercenter">PowerCenter <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/predictive">Predictive <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(4)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/predictive-analytics">Predictive Analytics <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(203)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/predictive-hcm">Predictive HCM <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/predictive-planning">Predictive Planning <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(49)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/predixion">Predixion <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/price-and-revenue-management">Price and Revenue Management <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(70)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/price-optimization">Price Optimization <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(9)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/pricing-and-promotion-management">Pricing and Promotion Management <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(5)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/pricing-management">pricing management <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/pro">PRO <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(7)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/process-management">process management <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/process-mining">Process Mining <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(9)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/procure-to-pay">Procure-to-Pay <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(12)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/procurement">procurement <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/product-experience-management">product experience management <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/product-information-management">Product Information Management <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(90)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/professional-services">Professional Services <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/professional-services-automation">Professional Services Automation <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(9)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/profit-velocity">Profit Velocity <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/profitability">Profitability <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(14)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/profitability-management">profitability management <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(11)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/project-management">Project Management <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/project-planning">Project Planning <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/project-portfolio-management">Project Portfolio Management <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/projecthelp">ProjectHelp <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/projectops">ProjectOps <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/projector">Projector <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/promptbook">Promptbook <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/property-technology">Property Technology <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/pros">PROS <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/pros-pricing">PROS Pricing <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/psa">PSA <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(11)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/publishing">Publishing <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/purchasing">purchasing <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/purchasing-sourcing-payments">Purchasing/Sourcing/Payments <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(16)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/pv-accelerator">PV Accelerator <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/pxm">PXM <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/qad">QAD <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/qlik">Qlik <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(5)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/qlik-qlik-sense">Qlik Qlik Sense <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/qlik-qonnections">Qlik Qonnections <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/qlik-analytics-qlik-sense-qlik-business-intelligen">Qlik, Analytics, Qlik Sense, Qlik, Business intell <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/qliktech">Qliktech <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/qlikview">QlikView <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(10)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/qualtrics">Qualtrics <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/quantrix">Quantrix <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/quinterian">Quinterian <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/quotas">Quotas <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/qvidian">Qvidian <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/r">R <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(4)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/ransomware">Ransomware <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/rapide">Rapide <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/rapidminer">Rapidminer <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/rdbms">RDBMS <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(5)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/real-estate">real estate <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/real-time">Real-time <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/reconciliation">Reconciliation <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(9)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/recovery">Recovery <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/recruiting">Recruiting <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(41)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/recurring-revenue">Recurring Revenue <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(19)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/report">report <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/reporting">Reporting <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(78)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/reporting-xbrl-ixbrl-document-management">Reporting, XBRL, iXBRL, document management <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/research">Research <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(16)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/resilience">Resilience <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/responsetek">ResponseTek <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(4)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/retail-analytics">Retail Analytics <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(6)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/revenue">Revenue <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(8)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/revenue-and-lease-accounting">revenue and lease accounting <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(15)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/revenue-management">Revenue Management <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(33)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/revenue-performance">Revenue Performance <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(11)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/revenue-performance-management">Revenue Performance Management <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(13)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/revenue-recognition">revenue recognition <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(8)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/revenue-lease-and-tax-accounting">Revenue, Lease and Tax Accounting <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(9)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/revolution">Revolution <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/revolution-analtyics">Revolution Analtyics <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/rightnow">RightNow <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/rim">RIM <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/risk">Risk <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(37)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/risk-compliance-grc">Risk & Compliance (GRC) <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(17)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/risk-analytics">Risk Analytics <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/riversand">Riversand <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/roambi">Roambi <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(7)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/robotic-automation">robotic automation <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(10)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/robotic-finance">robotic finance <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(38)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/robotic-process-automation">Robotic Process Automation <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(12)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/roi">ROI <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/rpa">RPA <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/rypple">Rypple <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sop">S&OP <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(13)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/saas">SaaS <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(27)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sab-miller">SAB Miller <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/saba">Saba <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(10)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sage">Sage <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sage-software">Sage Software <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(9)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sales">Sales <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(169)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sales-and-operations-planning">Sales and Operations Planning <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(10)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sales-cloud">Sales Cloud <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sales-coaching">Sales Coaching <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sales-commission">Sales Commission <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sales-compensation">Sales Compensation <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(12)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sales-effectiveness">Sales Effectiveness <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sales-enablement">sales enablement <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(16)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sales-enablement-and-execution">Sales Enablement and Execution <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(10)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sales-engagement">Sales Engagement <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(25)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sales-force-automation">Sales Force Automation <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(13)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sales-forecasting">Sales Forecasting <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(11)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sales-operations">Sales Operations <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(12)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sales-performance">Sales Performance <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(446)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sales-performance-management">Sales Performance Management <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(77)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sales-performance-management-spm">Sales Performance Management (SPM) <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(13)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sales-planning">Sales Planning <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sales-planning-and-analytics">Sales Planning and Analytics <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(18)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sales-tax">Sales Tax <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sales-marketing-sales-performance-management-marke">Sales, Marketing, Sales Performance Management, Ma <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sales-sfa-spm-sales-performance-management-sales-c">Sales, SFA, SPM, Sales Performance Management, Sal <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/salescloud">SalesCloud <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/salesforce-com">Salesforce.com <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(58)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sap">SAP <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(76)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sap-epm">SAP EPM <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sap-hana">SAP HANA <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sap-insider">SAP insider <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sap-lumira">SAP Lumira <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sap-netweaver">SAP NetWeaver <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sap-predictive-analytics">SAP predictive analytics <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sap-teched">SAP TechEd <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sapphire">SAPPHIRE <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sarbanes-oxley">Sarbanes Oxley <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sas">SAS <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(26)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sas-institute">SAS institute <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sasb">SASB <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sase">SASE <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/savi">Savi <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/scm">SCM <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(6)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/scm-demand-planning">SCM Demand Planning <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/scout-rfp">Scout RFP <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/scribe-software">Scribe Software <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/search">Search <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sec">SEC <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(19)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sec-software">SEC Software <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/secfinops">SecFinOps <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/secops">SecOps <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/security">Security <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/security-posture">Security Posture <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sedar">SEDAR <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/self-service">Self-service <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(41)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/semantic-model">semantic model <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/service-supply-chain">Service & Supply Chain <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/service-cloud">Service Cloud <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(4)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/servigistics">Servigistics <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sfa">SFA <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(24)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sfdc">SFDC <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sharepoint">SharePoint <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/shoretel">ShoreTel <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/siemens-enterprise-communications">Siemens Enterprise Communications <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/signal-demand">Signal Demand <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/silverpop">SilverPop <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/simba">Simba <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/smart-financial-close">Smart Financial Close <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/smart-manufacturing">Smart Manufacturing <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/smart-phones">Smart Phones <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(5)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/smart-watches">Smart Watches <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/smarter-analytics">Smarter Analytics <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/smarter-workforce">Smarter Workforce <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/smb">SMB <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/snaplogic">SnapLogic <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(5)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/snowfly">Snowfly <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/soa">SOA <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/soc">SOC <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/social">Social <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(13)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/social-business">Social Business <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/social-collaboration">Social Collaboration <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(17)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/social-crm">Social CRM <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(128)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/social-dynamx">Social Dynamx <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/social-media">Social Media <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(365)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/social-media-analytics">Social Media Analytics <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/social-media-intelligence">Social Media Intelligence <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/social-recognition">Social Recognition <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/socialtext">SocialText <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sococare">SoCoCare <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/softscape">Softscape <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(4)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/software">Software <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(8)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/software-as-a-service">Software as a Service <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(5)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sourcing">sourcing <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sovereign-cloud">Sovereign Cloud <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sox">SOX <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/spago-solutions">Spago Solutions <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/spatial-data-quality">Spatial Data Quality <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/speech-analytics">Speech Analytics <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(177)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/splunk">Splunk <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(8)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/spm">SPM <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/spotfire">Spotfire <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/spreadsheets">Spreadsheets <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(10)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/spss">SPSS <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(9)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sql-h">SQL-H <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sqlstream">SQLstream <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/star-analytics">Star Analytics <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/statistics">Statistics <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/stibo-systems">Stibo Systems <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/stratahadoop">Strata+Hadoop <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(56)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/streaming-analytics">Streaming Analytics <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(28)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/streaming-data">Streaming Data <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/streaming-data-events">Streaming Data & Events <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(32)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/subscriber-experience">Subscriber Experience <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/subscription-billing">Subscription Billing <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/subscription-management">Subscription Management <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(68)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/subscription-recurring-revenue-zuora">Subscription, Recurring Revenue, Zuora <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/successfactors">SuccessFactors <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(12)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sumo-logic">Sumo Logic <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sumtotal">SumTotal <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sumtotal-systems">SumTotal Systems <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(11)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sungard">Sungard <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sunsystems">Sunsystems <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/supplier-relationship-management">supplier relationship management <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(5)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/supply-chain">Supply Chain <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(12)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/supply-chain-management">supply chain management <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/supply-chain-performance">Supply Chain Performance <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(253)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/supply-chain-planning">Supply Chain Planning <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/surface">Surface <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/surveys">Surveys <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sustainability">Sustainability <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(38)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sustainability-and-esg">Sustainability and ESG <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sustainability-management">Sustainability Management <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(7)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/swordciboodle">SwordCiboodle <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sybase">Sybase <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sybase-iq">Sybase IQ <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/sybase-mobile-industry">Sybase. Mobile Industry <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/syncsort">Syncsort <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/synygy">Synygy <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/tableau">Tableau <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(13)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/tableau-software">Tableau Software <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/tablets">Tablets <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(6)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/tagetik">Tagetik <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(5)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/talemetry">Talemetry <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/talend">Talend <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(4)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/talent-acquisition">Talent Acquisition <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/talent-generation">Talent Generation <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/talent-management">Talent Management <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(133)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/taleo">Taleo <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(7)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/talx">TALX <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/tamr">Tamr <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/tanner-labs">Tanner Labs <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/tax">Tax <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(35)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/tax-compliance">tax compliance <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/tax-department">tax department <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/tax-planning">tax planning <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/tax-software">Tax Software <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/tax-datawarehouse">Tax-Datawarehouse <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/tax-tax-provision-transfer-pricing">tax; tax provision; transfer pricing <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/tcm">TCM <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(6)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/technology">Technology <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(4)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/technology-innovation">Technology Innovation <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/technology-innovation-award">Technology Innovation Award <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/technology-spending">Technology Spending <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/technology-vendors">Technology Vendors <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/telephony">Telephony <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/teradata">Teradata <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(16)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/teradata-aster">Teradata Aster <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(4)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/text-analytics">Text Analytics <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(182)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/tez">Tez <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/thomson-reuters-multinational">Thomson-Reuters multinational <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/threat-landscape">Threat Landscape <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/threat-management">Threat Management <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/tibco">Tibco <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(5)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/tidemark">Tidemark <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(5)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/time-attendance">Time & Attendance <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/tm">TM <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(2)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/tm1">TM1 <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/topic">Topic <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/total-compensation-management">Total Compensation Management <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(46)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/total-rewards-management">total rewards management <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(15)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/towers-watson">Towers Watson <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/towers-watson-talent-management">Towers Watson Talent Management <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(1)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/training">Training <span class="filter-link-count" dir="ltr">(3)</span></a> </li> <li style="display:none;"> <a href="https://blog.isg-research.net/topic/transcom">Transcom <span class="filter-link-count" 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 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"@type": "BlogPosting", "headline": "HP’s New World Order according to Leo Apotheker", "mainEntityOfPage": "https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/03/24/hps-new-world-order-according-to-leo-apotheker", "datePublished": "23/03/2011", "dateModified": "23/03/2011", "articleBody": "The new CEO of Hewlett-Packard, Leo Apotheker, has unveiled his vision of the future in the consumer and enterprise markets. His announcement carried some suspense after interviews in which he said “HP has lost its soul” and added that he will “get rid of cynics” inside HP who try to undercut his mission. Now Leo has defined what his company calls Everybody On, which is described as “seamless, secure, context-aware experiences for a connected world.” He intends that HP will reposition itself in providing a new generation of cloud services to interconnect its software and technology assets. HP of course is no small technology provider, with over $125 billion in revenue and a predominantly legacy and acquired software business worth over $6 billion. I want to provide some analysis of HP’s announcements in the context of what I see as the coming business technology innovations of this decade. My view overlaps with the HP vision. HP is expanding the territory of its business, focusing less on the enterprise software business of database, middleware and applications and more on the management and security of cloud services and software. Cloud computing is where Leo’s HP is articulating its mission of bringing together an interconnected market of consumers and the enterprise. HP plans to further the interconnectivity of its computers, servers and printers using the webOS technology it acquired from Palm. This approach is smarter than leaving it to Microsoft or any other provider for a mobile operating system. HP has been expanding its cloud computing efforts in an “open cloud marketplace” that will be accessible from its technologies whether printers and standard computers or new mobile devices including the HP TouchPad tablet and Palm Pre smartphone. The primitives of these services can be found on its latest generation of printers and accessed via the Internet; you also can access a range of services as I have done personally through my HP 8500, which is a pretty good piece of engineering. HP’s cloud marketplace will access services that HP has been arming itself to build from public, private and hybrid (combined) clouds and its own software, technology and services. HP will need to provide more software assets there to make it attractive for developers who want to build and deploy in its cloud services and marketplace. I expect this will require more acquisitions, as HP is not known for quick development cycles and timely updates of software to meet new markets; it shares these challenges with other very large peers like IBM, Oracle and Microsoft. The wrapper for its cloud computing efforts is where HP has some of its strongest assets, including management and security, and transformation services to migrate or adapt to new cloud-based software services. Another strength is its ability to manage these computing environments in a data center or grid. Also HP is coming to market with the HP CloudSystem, an appliance to build and manage software on a single platform. HP was quick to talk as well about its Cloud Maps to ease integration of software from Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, SAS and other vendors that operate on its servers and software. The Cloud Maps put a brand on what it has been doing for some time to help software operate on its servers, but now the management software is more tightly integrated with the computing and storage aspects of the appliance. HP also sees itself providing a cloud environment for personal and team computing; this could be promising if the service is as easy to use as what our firm has with Egnyte for cloud-based file sharing and servers for secure access to information along with systems backup. On the mobility side, HP seriously intends to become a major player in the tablet and smartphone markets. Its life-saving acquisition of Palm in 2010 was widely questioned because, having led early on in the PDA market, Palm had struggled to insert itself into the new markets. But HP has been working hard to leverage these assets and their experience for a new generation of tablets called HP TouchPad and a smartphone called HP Pre3. HP has worked to make them secure and enterprise-ready on webOS but integrated into with Microsoft Exchange server and managed for both enterprise and consumer markets. It has done a great job with multitasking of applications, use of Adobe Flash and interconnectivity of the two smartphone and tablet technologies, which I would love to have with my Apple iPhone and iPad. But let’s remember that practically speaking, neither the best technology nor ones that address the gaps of others are what make a market; that is driven by the marketing and ecosystem of applications and developers that already exist. In this case it also requires a consumer mindset, and this is a very difficult market to penetrate with the strengths of Apple, Android, RIM and even Microsoft. I think Leo will have to build a new consumer and marketing team that will approach its task completely differently than HP has done before. Just because you can sell printers and notebooks to consumers does not provide a free ride in the mobile space as Dell and even Microsoft have seen. With analytics HP has had some of its bumpiest roads. The controversial demise of HP Neoview that I covered in December that has irked many at HP wrecked the company’s reputation in the buyer community for data warehousing and analytics; many customers shipped the technology back and negotiated downward their consulting services bills. Part of the problem was that HP tried to make Neoview support very large volumes of data continuously and also provide privacy and security of the data, which in the end did not work in many customer configurations. According to my sources, Leo was unaware of the significant challenges and change of strategy that he inherited with Neoview, and the company finally announced the shut down of it on January 24. Since last September most of the talented people who knew the analytics and BI market have left the organization. This exodus was due to lack of leadership and commitment, and even Leo’s arrival did not restore their confidence in management. Now HP has a new strategy with the acquisition of Vertica, a company we assessed previously. The sudden acquisition of Vertica was a bit of a surprise and appears to be a back-room deal involving HP board chairman Ray Lane, who as a partner at Kleiner Perkins invested in Vertica. This deal orchestrated by Leo and Ray seems to be a fast maneuver to find a new analytics strategy for HP without a significant investment or a major shift to its portfolio and leadership strategy, which are desperately needed. It was clear that Leo is not getting all the facts, as he boldly claimed that Vertica has “limitless scaling” and “extreme compression” capabilities to support big-data analytics and is representing it as the next generation of business intelligence. Just as it recklessly positioned HP Neoview as able to solve any data problem, HP again is making promises that its technology has not been proven able to keep, in this case to handle the size and depth of very-large-scale data challenges. Vertica is in the classes of columnar technology, which my colleague has explained. Vertica has good technology and some customer adoption, but like Neoview it will play best with specific applications and uses and not across the entire market; it has to be prepared carefully to load and query to work efficiently. If HP believes it can engineer it to be more, it should look back at its last five years of evolving HP Neoview. A bolder step into the analytics and data management markets would have looked like Teradata’s acquisition of Aster Data that my colleague covered; something like that could have provided entry to the enterprise business markets. Or HP might have looked at the commercialization of the Hadoop open source technology for large-scale data through a company such as Cloudera. Of course this is not the only thing challenging HP – it will need integration and analytics tools to compete with IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP and many others including Information Builders. HP sees Vertica as part of platform services in its overall software strategy, but Leo was showing it off in an appliance with what he called full-, half- and quarter-rack packaging. HP clearly is very early in understanding what it is buying with Vertica and not ready to position how it can be used; many organizations that bought and attempted to apply HP Neoview still have bad tastes in their mouths from wasting not only dollars but time, which is a more critical business asset, and are likely to be skeptical of the new approach. The collaboration and social media aspects of the consumer and enterprise markets include not only the likes of Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn but also Salesforce Chatter, SuccessFactors CubeTree, Saba SocialLive, Jive Software and many others. HP did not communicate anything substantive in this area. It instead has focused on the need to get content on devices and platforms through digitization from print. HP sees itself driving the workflow of creation, authentication, storage and accessibility of information in a collaborative environment. This could work if it can be accessible across the variety of business mobility technologies beyond HP’s own and made part of the overall computing fabric. HP has been evolving its work in information management toward what it calls information optimization, which is based on content and records more than data. This I think puts HP at a disadvantage to IBM, Oracle and SAP, especially to IBM’s information governance focus. Despite this HP has begun to present a coherent set of methods and processes to manage the life cycle of information, which could help it play a more strategic role in enterprises. Using a partnering approach to database management systems (except for Vertica), HP will have to find a path for further expansion and interoperability. It also will need to find more progressive ways to access IT data and provide IT analytics that our research found to be great demand. Vendors such as Splunk, which I have assessed and Planview are addressing these issues. Splunk, for example, has been growing by making it simple to access, index, search and present IT data in meaningful metrics and information applications for IT and business. In its professional services, HP has focused on multiyear IT outsourcing deals or providing private cloud environments for enterprises. The latter is a good place to look for the future as the demand by enterprises for most consulting services has not rebounded since the economic collapses over the last three years. This was also confirmed in our major new business analytics benchmark research which shows that external consulting resources (7%) and outsourced IT resources (3%) seldom have responsibility to design and deploy analytics. This is not unexpected as enterprises and CIOs need to control their own destinies and have learned many lessons in recent years about why business units aren’t pleased with their current computing environments. My colleague said it well recently in “With IT Departments, Companies Get What They Deserve” in which he outlines why CIOs and IT need to be more engaged in the success of business. In many cases that means making information ready to help business processes operate more efficiently and applying analytics for making decisions. HP is focusing its communications with CIOs mostly on the cloud and is preparing to meet business needs for cloud-based services. The issue here is that the lines of business adopting public cloud business applications want to onboard and use them in quick implementations that do not require the debate and delays in meeting corporate IT standards and governance. This attitude challenges IT to manage data in applications spread all over, which my colleague describes as clouds raining corporate data. HP does have software to help with information enablement across both enterprise and cloud, as do Informatica, Pervasive, Jitterbit and the new SnapLogic, and can offer consulting services here. HP has software for application transformation, but it needs more than just application life cycle, virtualization, security and management to help enterprises adapt to cloud computing in a hybrid environment. HP is playing to its strength in management software but also will need to manage the valuable data underlying applications. Wisely, I think, Leo has made it clear that HP will not be acquiring a transactional application company (like SAP, his old company) to gain customers and maintenance dollars, instead focusing on the future computing environment; I believe this is the right approach if HP can fill its gaps. HP does have a lot to offer in what it calls security intelligence, to help organizations manage incidents, vulnerability and policies to ensure they build a safe, risk-free environment. This will definitely be an opportunity for HP to further its differentiation as it is has assets and an approach superior to those from IBM, Microsoft, Oracle and SAP. In life-cycle support of its products, both the consumer and enterprise markets have expectations of timely migration that makes technology faster and easier to use. Except for its hardware businesses, HP historically has had slow product release cycles, which has deterred some business organizations from using its software. Of course there are challenges in the complexity of software, but IT’s concern is simpler and faster iterations to its enterprise software. I am not convinced that HP yet understands this enough to actually change its culture and processes in this area. Leo has been under some serious scrutiny lately with his promoting of a new generation of directors on the HP board. It’s likely that significant change is required as the board hampered some of his predecessor’s growth strategies in favor of cost-reduction efforts. It will require some new leadership there and below to deliver the sort of change that Leo has promised. In particular its software and technology products organizations need to work together like never before and digest new acquisitions without losing the talent that made them worth buying in the first place. Leo has set the bar pretty low for what the industry including Wall Street should expect to ensure he gets some time to make necessary changes. It should help that his predecessor squeezed out the obvious waste in duplication of effort and costs that were required to begin the change. HP is embarked on a cultural and technological change that is overdue. Leo is going to push the organization to adapt and if necessary eliminate those who do not move fast enough to adjust to the new order. This is healthy but will have to be done while improving employee satisfaction to increase productivity and gain better throughput of its business processes. It won’t be enough to craft a fancy new marketing message around cloud computing; it will take a truly transformative approach that can deliver value to business customers in the short term. HP can do this eventually, but the question is whether it can communicate the roadmap for getting with clarity and substance that will be more convincing than the messages from its other top competitors. For me, it is too early to say. I will revisit this situation in three to four months and see if anything has improved, so stay tuned! 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": "The Business Intelligence Technology Revolution in 2011", "mainEntityOfPage": "https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/03/21/the-business-intelligence-technology-revolution-in-2011", "datePublished": "20/03/2011", "dateModified": "20/03/2011", "articleBody": "The business intelligence (BI) technology market is undergoing a revolution. I’ve been working in this segment for 20 years, and it is and has been an exciting market in which to work, but its dynamic nature can be daunting to organizations trying to evaluate, purchase and deploy BI to improve their business processes. And despite the advances our benchmark research shows high levels of dissatisfaction with and immaturity in BI capabilities within organizations. Challenges remain to spread adoption of BI among a wider audience and improve its use in organizations. We have recently seen progress in integrating information management and analytics into a single framework, but more work remains. The use of collaboration will help improve dialogue and delivery of information to business users. Organizations can also adopt and support mobile BI technologies to enhance productivity and broaden the reach of BI. Technology exists today to apply analytics to all information regardless of volume, data type and origin. However, organizations still struggle to evaluate alternatives for supporting large data sets including location data, event data and machine-generated data, all of which can contribute to more accurate analyses of their business processes. Also as the proportion and volume of unstructured data grow, users will need to incorporate text analytics to complement structured data analysis. On top of these challenges businesses now operate at Internet speeds and must analyze data and events as they are created or miss fleeting market opportunities. Organizations must develop their analytical capabilities further not just to provide data but to optimize business decisions. To enhance decision-making and improve business outcomes, they must move beyond historical analysis to look forward through planning, forecasting and predictive analysis. And the dramatic rise in popularity of social media creates another source of information to incorporate in the decision-making process and another channel for involving larger groups in feedback processes. We see five underlying technology innovations impacting BI and creating the aforementioned revolution: cloud computing, mobile technologies, social media, analytics of more types over more data, and collaboration. My colleague has identified these five areas as the business technology revolution in 2011, and all are directly relevant to BI. As I’ve previously pointed out in “Clouds are Raining Corporate Data”, cloud-based BI systems are rising in popularity. So are other types of cloud applications, which means that more and more of the data organizations need to analyze will reside in the cloud. I’ll be examining the issues of business data in the cloud in a benchmark research program that is just about to get under way. Mobile technologies are invading the enterprise through employees. As mobile devices have developed more capabilities and larger form factors appear in tablets, business users on the go are demanding access to BI wherever they may be. Some software vendors and innovative enterprises have recognized these devices as vehicles to enable front-line BI and decision-making capabilities. More organizations are supporting their business users and realizing benefits of both broader BI adoption and enhanced productivity of their workforce. Social media has created several new challenges for businesses and their use of BI. First, this rich source of information can help companies understand customers and prospects, their characteristics, their opinions and their experiences in interacting with the organization. But analyzing unstructured social media content is new to most organizations. Second, social media can also play a role in collaborating on BI-aided decision-making processes (discussed below). Third, social media is a source of information and opinions about the BI products and services organizations may be evaluating. Finally, the combination of social media and mobile technologies is increasing demand for real-time data and instant analysis of it. Collaboration technologies, as applied to BI, are not the same as social media. Social media such as Twitter, Chatter or Tibbr may be used as part of a social process, but collaboration is more than just a conversation. It includes workflow and approval processes as well as tracking communication associated with BI decision-making. Social media can be the delivery vehicle for some of the information and conversation tracking, but it is not sufficient on its own. Innovative organizations recognize the processes involved in BI are as important as the technology and take steps to provide collaborative support to their BI activities. The rise of social media has helped raise awareness of collaboration in general, but many organizations are still confused about how to apply collaboration to the BI process. At the core of BI, analytics have evolved beyond simple historical analysis. More advanced analytic techniques have been available for decades but are still not widely embraced. For example, our recent analytics research shows that only 25% of organizations are using planning and forecasting in their BI applications. However, in business areas such as finance, planning with what-if and scenario modeling has been common for years, in part because the volumes of data were smaller and more easily managed. In other specific business functions such as fraud detection, predictive analytics have played a significant role for years despite their cost and complexity because of the magnitude of the savings that could be achieved. With these business areas paving the way and with the advent of information management technologies that can marry larger volumes of data with more powerful analytics, organizations can now deploy these capabilities across a much wider range of business problems. I’ll be examining the role of advanced analytics and the obstacles still facing organizations as they try to deploy these capabilities. In short, while the challenges are great, so are the opportunities. It’s an exciting time in the BI market. As you assess how the business technology revolution affects your BI efforts, please check back here for updated research that can help your organization mature in its use of BI. 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": "With IT Departments, Companies Get What They Deserve", "mainEntityOfPage": "https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/03/21/with-it-departments-companies-get-what-they-deserve", "datePublished": "20/03/2011", "dateModified": "20/03/2011", "articleBody": "One of the many interesting findings that came out of Ventana Research’s comprehensive benchmark research on business analytics was partly buried in an analysis of maturity groups. The Maturity Index of our research benchmarks 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. We’ve conducted more than 100 benchmarks during the past seven years, covering thousands of organizations and gauging their maturity in performing important operations. We’ve consistently found an interrelationship among the people, process, information and technology dimensions in every major business issue. That is, companies that fall short in one dimension tend to fall short in others, and usually to the same degree, precisely because corporate pathologies are self-reinforcing. The maturity framework we use identifies the key conditions and outcomes organizations must have to achieve optimal performance. The Maturity Index model looks at outcome metrics that cover both efficiency and effectiveness: for example, efficiency measured by person-hours to close the books or the time required to produce a sales operations report, and effectiveness measured by customer satisfaction, order fulfillment rates and other criteria. The model also assesses the conditions in a company – again, interrelated people, processes, information and technology – that affect how well it executes. This includes things like data availability or information system fragmentation or the quality or frequency of training – things that have the greatest impact on achieving desired outcomes. The results of the maturity assessments demonstrate what should be obvious conclusions but are usually overlooked: Improving the performance of a company, division or department can best be achieved by identifying the root causes of the gaps in its performance. In our business analytics research, one of the questions we asked participants was how they plan to implement changes in their analytics. Regardless of their overall level of maturity in using analytics, 55 to 60 percent said they expect to have line-of-business people make the changes, either alone or in concert with their IT department. The notable difference between the most and least mature groups, however, was that the most mature are twice as likely to use their own IT department to do the work and three times less likely to use outside consultants or buy prebuilt analytics. In fact we found a correlation between a company’s overall maturity level in analytics and its willingness to use internal IT resources. This finding sharpens the ongoing discussion around “why doesn’t IT get a seat at the table?” and points to the self-reinforcing aspects of information technology’s role in business. I believe that corporations get the IT department they deserve. In immature companies, executives and managers are less likely to understand this and more prone to create a disconnect between what they want and what they’re willing to do. The mutually reinforcing aspects of a company’s IT strategy, usage and investment show up repeatedly in our benchmark research. Companies, especially larger ones, that do not value IT’s contribution highly are unlikely to get the best and brightest CIOs or midlevel IT managers. Of course people want their contributions to be valued. If the culture of the organization is, “we built this business on merchandising; the IT stuff doesn’t matter,” don’t expect to see an overachieving IT department at work – expect the opposite. Along with this attitude will be underinvestment in technology, software and data management, which will produce the inevitable result that IT cannot deliver superior capabilities and therefore continually lacks credibility with senior management and operations (who are likely to complain about its shortcomings). In this situation line-of-business people have low expectations because of poor performance, which is why they prefer to use off-the-shelf packages or consultants. Moreover, this poor performance makes them unwilling to invest in their internal IT infrastructure and more prone to outsource whenever possible. Good IT people who want to drive change leave these companies because at best there is only a lukewarm commitment to implementing change. Breaking out of this vicious circle is not impossible, but it’s really hard, and, once more, it requires a commitment to address issues in people, process, information and technology. For someone in an IT department who is pretty good at what you do but works for a company that doesn’t value IT, the lesson is it’s time to burnish your résumé, make sure your Linked-In and/or Plaxo listings are positive and up-to-date and move on. This is especially true if you’re the CIO. It may be that the line-of-business people in your company are a bunch of whiners about things that aren’t your fault – but can you blame them? One major finding in the research was that data is not ready for analytics and our research found that 69 percent of time is spent in data preparation. This includes the specific amounts of 33 percent of time is spent preparing data for analysis, 23 percent reviewing data for quality and consistency and 13 percent waiting for data and information. Maybe IT should examine how automation and improvement with data integration and data quality technology can help business do their tasks of business analytics. On the other hand, if you’re an executive looking for ways to improve the performance of your company – especially if you’ve just been handed your current job – consider what a more effective IT capability can contribute. It may involve a higher level of investment in your technology resources. You may need to attract new IT people to manage that portion of the transformation. Yet if you do so, in the end your company will be better able to execute the full range of its core business processes across all departments. The first step is to assess where the gaps are in the people, process, information and technology dimensions of the most important business processes. I’m willing to bet that you’ll find a common set of holes in your IT resources that affect all of them. The next – obvious – step is to do something about them. Regards, Robert Kugel – SVP Research", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "", "height": 400, "width": 750 }, "author": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Robert Kugel", "url": "https://blog.isg-research.net/author/robert-kugel", "sameAs": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertkugel" }, "publisher": { "@type": "Organization", "name": "ISG", "url": "blog.isg-research.net", "logo": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://www.ventanaresearch.com/hubfs/ISG_Software_Research_Logo_Color@2x.png" } } }</script> <script type="application/ld+json"> { "@context": "http://schema.org", "@type": "BlogPosting", "headline": "Business Collaboration Brings Together People and Technology", "mainEntityOfPage": "https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/03/18/business-collaboration-brings-together-people-and-technology", "datePublished": "17/03/2011", "dateModified": "17/03/2011", "articleBody": "In today’s competitive environment, people working in collaboration can make the difference between a company’s success or failure. But hitting “reply to all” on an e-mail chain isn’t the kind of collaboration I’m talking about. Neither is managing your employee and business communications with cups connected by string and Ouija boards. I’m talking about true business collaboration – bringing together people and technology to increase productivity and performance for competitive advantage. New benchmark research on this topic is forthcoming from us this year, and we’re pretty excited about it. This post is the first in a series of perspectives and vendor reviews discussing the business collaboration movement, tools and resources which my colleague pointed out is one of the five business technology innovations. I know that “bringing together people and technology” sounds like marketing spin, but the reality is that business today requires us to communicate and collaborate via a variety of tools and services, including e-mail, phone, instant messaging, video chat, the social Big Three (Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn), other online networks, webinars, podcasts, blogs, wikis, the company intranet – and even face to face from time to time. And to do this of course we use land lines, cell phones, smartphones, tablet computers, laptop computers, desktop computers, the Internet and the magic of cloud computing. But even with all this technology available, there are disconnects. Many of us are still operating in the technological Dark Ages, using tools designed two to three decades ago for electronic mail and messaging, while at the same time the virtual workforce and global mobility are far beyond what they’ve ever been before. IT standards and efforts to manage the use of technology for business communications have collapsed under the massive proliferation of new mobile devices and free collaboration software. The tech changes have been crazy-fast, so don’t blink. But in business, not so much. While the technology to support modern, electronic business collaboration is increasingly usable and available, organizations are challenged to figure out where to invest, how to maximize the effectiveness of their people resources and how to exploit the intersection of technologies for collaboration, learning, social media and mobility. Collaboration can be as simple as a discussion among colleagues on a business issue or a motivational presentation to an individual or a team, or as complex as a structured project plan that its participants update in real time. Typically, teams that work collaboratively can obtain greater resources, recognition and rewards in the competition for finite resources. I believe there’s a change coming in the way organizations collaborate, share information and provide formal and informal learning activities as they relate to the broader business goals beyond HR’s borders. In fact, it’s already here. Sure it seems glacial like most change is in business, but it is change nonetheless. Business people aren’t the only ones who get in the way of change. HR software vendors can be just as guilty as HR professionals of living in a vacuum and not thinking broadly to benefit business through “cross-functional collaboration.” My new colleagues at Ventana Research and I continually wonder why these companies aren’t enhancing their software to include true business collaboration features (for users in finance, operations, IT, supply chain, sales and marketing, and elsewhere). However, here also the times they are a-changin’. Again. Consider SuccessFactors’ acquisition of Jambok, the SaaS-based social learning company that gives users Web 2.0 tools similar to YouTube’s and Facebook’s, which enable them to create and share content easily across the enterprise (I’ll write more about this and other vendor offerings soon). In the area of learning, I’m not talking about this business collaboration movement replacing the learning management systems (LMS), which was the core of a recent discussion in the HR Technology Conference LinkedIn group (and a good one, mind you). But I am talking about the evolution of how business communication and collaboration get done, and that includes learning and knowledge sharing. For example, collaboration systems must contribute to aligning the actions of individuals with their company’s overall objectives. Optimal collaboration across business processes is essential because it enables managers to take better actions and make decisions faster and more consistently. Any collaborative system must fit with existing analysis, planning and decision-making processes, and it must support the communications and social networking tools employees use or will use – and work in conjunction with the current LMS generation. So maybe the SuccessFactors play is less about being competitive in the LMS market and more about becoming an integrated business collaboration system across all lines of business that includes collective knowledge sharing and problem-solving, mentoring, job apprenticeship and more while supporting human resources, operations, customer service, sales, marketing, manufacturing, training and learning, IT and finance. Also relevant here is CubeTree’s emphasis on providing a “business execution suite” as opposed to a talent management suite. For you vendors, let me repeat that I’ll have more on specific functionality soon, so don’t throw rocks if I haven’t mentioned you. If your company has this business collaboration and social learning evolution occurring in your product line, please let me know. Our research agenda on this subject will include the following advances: Eliminate the Manager/Employee Divide – Use business collaboration to improve dialogue. Optimize Human Capital Potential – Use collaboration and social media for hiring processes. Increase the Value of the Workforce – Integrate learning and collaboration to increase operational expertise. The upcoming benchmark research by Ventana Research will produce a Benchmark Index – a detailed, quantified picture of the current state and future direction of business collaboration. It will answer questions critical to vendors’ strategies and plans for developing, marketing and selling business collaboration analytics software. And the corresponding Value Index will address buyers’ strategies for evaluating, purchasing and implementing these systems. The way we work is changing. The business collaboration evolution is here. Don’t miss it. 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": "Four Steps for Improving the Customer Experience", "mainEntityOfPage": "https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/03/18/four-steps-for-improving-the-customer-experience", "datePublished": "17/03/2011", "dateModified": "17/03/2011", "articleBody": "There is a lot of talk today about customer experience management, but use of the term is vague, much as customer relationship management meant different things to different people. For some it is much the same as CRM, for others it is about using the voice of the customer to gain insights to make customer-related decisions. I have another view. Let’s consider phone calls, which according to my research into the use of technology in contact centers, is still the main way consumers interact with companies. What makes these calls good or bad experiences? Being driven mad by a badly created IVR system and waiting in a queue both come down on the “bad” side, and companies should do something about them. Those aside, my research into agent performance management(APM) shows that the majority of companies correctly believe that how their agent deals with the call makes the difference. So it makes sense that companies should take action to help agents deliver good experiences. Here are four things they can do. First the company should route the call to the person most qualified to resolve the issue to the caller’s satisfaction and in the company’s best interest. This means moving beyond simple routing and adopting smart systems that route based on the caller’s profile, the skill of the agent, the context of the call and the person most likely to achieve the desired business outcome. Second companies should train agents better and help them follow the best practices exhibited by the most effective agents. I’ll come back to the “help” aspect, but from a training perspective, companies have to move away from a “one size fits all” approach to training and deploy processes and systems that can focus on individual weaknesses and requirements. Third is where the “help” comes in. Companies should make the agent’s desktop system easy to use and gently lead agents into following best practices. My research into APM showed that in the majority of companies the agent desktop can only be described as a mess. Some agents have more than 20 systems open at any one time; they have to know which screens to use to for each step, have to jump between systems (often repeating what they have just done in the previous system) and get little guidance on how to answer questions, much less advice in trying, for example, to sell additional products or services. So it is no wonder that many callers have bad experiences and many issues go unresolved. The maturity model I developed as part of my APM research shows that innovative companies have spotted what they can do to help – implement a smart agent desktop. The least mature companies, which we call Tactical, do nothing to improve the desktop and let their agents struggle with what they have (if they stay in the job). At the next Advanced level of maturity, companies have implemented what was called a unified desktop when it was new. These systems typically did three things: They hid the other systems behind a new user interface that was more intuitive to use, followed the typical flow of different call types and automated updating of data across several systems. At the highest two levels of maturity, companies have deployed increasingly smarter desktops. These typically include the features of a unified desktop but go further by using rules-based systems to pop messages or new screens onto the desktop, which automatically provide the required information, advise the agent on what to say or do next within the context of the customer’s profile (including, for example, previous interactions and products bought) and the customer‘s relationship with the company (such as high or low value, or the net promoter score). In this way a smart desktop guides agents to follow established best practices. There are many products now on the market that include some or all of these capabilities. To help customers decide which best suit their needs, we created the Ventana Research 2011 Customer Experience Management Agent Desktop Value Index. This report evaluates most of the vendors of agent desktop products in terms of seven standard categories: usability, manageability, reliability, capability, adaptability, vendor validation and TCO/ROI. Based on a scorecard driven by our CEM research model, we ranked the 10 vendors that took part as frigid, cold, warm or hot. Four received our Warm ranking: Riverstar, Altitude, Genesys and SmartPoint, while the other achieved the top-level Hot ranking: Jacada, salesforce.com, Cincom, Cicero, OpenSpan and number-one-ranked vendor Upstream Works. Overall the last four listed here all scored within two percentage points of each other and each represents an example of a smart desktop. The fourth step companies should take to deliver good customer experiences is to put better information in the hands of people making decisions, whether at a strategic level or in the contact center as agents handle calls. My research into contact center analytics shows that most companies are not very mature in the use of analytics and metrics within their contact centers. The majority rely on spreadsheets to generate analytics, and only a few at the highest Innovative maturity level have realized the benefits of using one of the dedicated analytics products now on the market. At a time when it is even more important than ever to retain customers and gain the maximum business benefits from those relationships, companies have to pay attention to the customer experience. These four steps, especially improving the agent desktop, are vital to business success, and I recommend you take a long, hard look at how you can improve call-handling. I’d love to hear your views and plans you may have to improve the customer 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": "SAS and its Business Intelligence & Information Management Direction", "mainEntityOfPage": "https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/03/18/sas-and-its-business-intelligence-information-management-direction", "datePublished": "17/03/2011", "dateModified": "17/03/2011", "articleBody": "I recently attended SAS Institute’s annual analyst conference. My colleague covered the multibillion-dollar company’s strategy and the event. Now I want to look into some of the details of SAS’s products for business analytics and how they are supported with business intelligence (BI), and information management. Although SAS is not a publicly traded company and therefore is not required to make the financial disclosures that others are, the company revealed numerous financial statistics. Business intelligence represents over $200 million in license revenue to SAS. That’s a significant figure, larger than publicly traded BI vendors QlikTech (NASDAQ: QLIK) and Actuate (NASDAQ: BIRT) have and smaller than but still in the same order of magnitude as MicroStrategy (NASDAQ: MSTR) and Information Builders. These figures are consistent with results in our benchmark research on business intelligence and performance management: 18% of our research respondents reported using SAS products, which places it in the middle of the pack. SAS has a broad portfolio of BI products including query, reporting, OLAP, visualization and dashboarding. The existing product line lags behind competitive offerings’ collaboration and mobile capabilities, but SAS has plans to address these areas. An upcoming release, planned for later in 2011, will focus on visualization, some in-memory capabilities, expanded collaboration and mobile deployments. SAS has a history in the visualization space with its JMP product. The new release will bring more visualization along with in-memory technology to the core BI product. The visualization capabilities will be delivered in both iPad and Flash versions. My colleague highlighted collaboration as one of five technologies creating a revolution in business in 2011. On the collaboration front, SAS provided integration with Microsoft Outlook last summer and will be expanding those capabilities. I am a fan of Outlook integration. The product may not be as sexy as Salesforce Chatter or other social media channels, but a collaboration channel must have critical mass to be successful. That is, if the people you need to interact with aren’t present on that channel, your communications won’t reach the intended recipients. Integration with Outlook solves that problem because everyone in the enterprise uses e-mail and it is the dominant client software. Sure, I’d like to see a roadmap that includes other collaboration channels, but Outlook is the logical starting point and can be a bridge until those other channels are more widely adopted. Users should be aware that many SAS applications were built before its BI stack was available and are still based on separate components. Newer applications such as Customer Intelligence are based on the BI stack, but older applications are migrating to the BI stack only over time. This obviously impacts integration among parts of the product line. But since many applications are not based on the BI stack, there is less pull-through from sales of those applications, and this suggests that the BI products are succeeding on their own. When it comes to information management, SAS let’s its wholly owned software business handle the development of its products and to the marketing and sales activities. DataFlux, acquired by SAS more than 10 years ago, maintains a separate identity and a separate product line from SAS Data Integration, although the underlying components and metadata, rules and transformations can be shared and process flows can be orchestrated between the two lines. DataFlux, with over 2,300 customers, provides data integration, data quality and master data management capabilities. In 2011 it will be moving into complex event processing for operational intelligence. See our benchmark research on the subject here. While the SAS and DataFlux information management products can deal with cloud-based data, they do not yet offer a software-as-a-service versions of their products, which some other vendors do. SAS also needs to provide more integration between its BI products and the information management products. For instance, data lineage and glossary information cannot be surfaced through the BI products today, although SAS can provide impact analysis of where information is used in the BI products. Business analytics at SAS is a separate category from BI. In it SAS includes statistics, forecasting, predictive analytics and text analytics. Our recent BI and performance management benchmark research shows that less than one-quarter of respondents use predictive analytics. However, in our newly completed benchmark research on business analytics 80% of organizations said that it is important or very important to apply predictive analytics to predict future outcomes, so we expect usage to grow. SAS has a long history in the analytics space and a well-developed product line, but it is still extending its algorithms. In 2011 SAS will be focusing on new algorithms for high-frequency data and more powerful optimization techniques. Part of the development centers around high-performance computing techniques that distribute processing across multiple servers to handle large volumes of data quickly. These high-performance techniques will be delivered as an analytic appliance. SAS also plans to provide operational analytics through workflow and business rules. In all the talk of high-performance computing, SAS said little about Hadoop. I expect to hear more from SAS on this topic, but the plans are still in the formative stages. (For discussion of what other organizations are doing with Hadoop, see my previous post “Living in the Era of Hadoop and Large-Scale Data”. SAS is also working on enterprise search capabilities, which we believe are important as discussed here So while most of SAS’s business derives from applications, there is a robust tools business for BI, analytics and information management. Whether you are an SAS customer or not, I hope this recap of what’s going on at SAS helps you understand some of the ways in which analytics and BI are becoming more intertwined. 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": "Infor’s Hospitality Applications Software Business", "mainEntityOfPage": "https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/03/18/infors-hospitality-applications-software-business", "datePublished": "17/03/2011", "dateModified": "17/03/2011", "articleBody": "The hospitality industry has a complex structure. It is highly fragmented, with many small operations but also a significant number of global companies. Moreover, a property can be managed by one company (the brand name over the door) yet owned by another, which might be a one-off local real-estate partnership or a larger-scale owner of multiple sites. The consumer side of hospitality has its own challenges as well, resulting from the dramatic shifts brought about by the Internet in how people worldwide buy travel and leisure services. In addition to this external environment, IT requirements within the hospitality industry are complex and demanding. If you run a hotel, resort or casino, you need software to manage reservations, the physical plant (properties require constant maintenance), human resources (the business is people-intensive), ancillary on-site businesses (including food and beverage, golf, spas and retail shops) and distribution (such as the interface with online booking vendors) and to support sales and marketing. Companies that offer gaming need specific software for that as well. The hospitality software industry’s structure adds to the challenges here. Historically, it has been highly fragmented and in aggregate has generated subpar returns. While that has driven vendor consolidation in recent years, there also are new entrants attempting to take advantage of technology shifts to establish their presence in the market. Against this volatile backdrop, I recently attended a meeting with Infor in Las Vegas to get a formal update on my review from last year. For the software industry, hospitality has been a challenging market because of its complex requirements, the buyers’ traditional unwillingness to invest in information technology (much like the retailing industry) and the highly fragmented market. Infor entered the hospitality vertical through its acquisition of SoftBrands, a closely held company with a suite of reservation and property management software. It quickly made an additional purchase of the property management software business of Amadeus (an online reservation system). Infor already had some presence in that market’s back-office operations with Infinium (mostly in North America) and Sun Systems (in Europe and Asia Pacific) as well as in the marketing department with Epiphany. Today, it offers a broad set of software to manage most aspects of the hotel and resort business, including performance management (with planning, budgeting, reporting and scorecarding) and financial consolidation. I had three key take-aways from the session. One is that evolving technology will continue to be a market driver. Hospitality is a global market, and international tourism and business travel continue to grow, especially outside of the mature economies of the developed world. Countering the growth potential, the business is highly competitive and caters to a price-conscious crowd, forcing operators to constantly wring out inefficiencies. Information technology can help with this aspect through a combination of increasing the efficiency of employees and automating manual processes, especially in the back office, and in providing information and insight to executives. Moreover, new means of delivering IT capabilities such as cloud computing can substantially decrease the operating costs of hospitality operators, especially smaller ones, by offering economies of scale. Mobile devices can be used intensively in operations because most employees are not tied to a desk or fixed location. Mobility can improve guests’ satisfaction through faster resolution of their requests (housekeeping issues, for instance) and the ability to free up inventory sooner for earlier check-in. (And speaking of desks, if you’re going to have to get back into your car anyway to drive to your room, why not skip the trip to the lobby and use curb-side check-in?) It’s worth noting in this context that cloud-based software is not without problems, however. Many hotels and resorts are in remote locations (that’s often the point), which can make using the technology challenging or not feasible. And as has been recently demonstrated, using cloud-based systems in countries where the government manages the Internet can be a problem, especially if it decides to turn it off. A second take-away from our visit is the challenge Infor faces in taking advantage of its suite of capabilities to support hospitality companies more fully. For larger operators, I think this means finding ways to increase share of wallet by expanding their footprint as they replace existing software components or by adding a comprehensive suite of performance management software. For smaller ones, it’s the challenge of finding ways to deliver a comprehensive cloud-based hospitality management suite that is cost-effective. My third take-away is that the hospitality software business will continue to be a tough one, for all the reasons mentioned earlier. Moreover, the software market in North America and Europe is mature, and growth opportunities are mostly in Asia Pacific, the Middle East and Africa where economies continue to expand and local demand for travel and leisure increases. Still, I think Infor’s hospitality business has the key advantage of being packageable as individual components (because few if any operators will toss out all of their systems at once), combinations of components or a full suite. Relatively few companies in the industry – especially smaller operators – are using performance management and analytics capabilities to their fullest but important as my colleague pointed out. While the market remains challenging, I think Infor has the raw material to gain share if it manages its product development strategically and markets it effectively. Regards, Robert Kugel – 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": "SAS Institute: The Multi-Billion Dollar Business Analytics Supplier", "mainEntityOfPage": "https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/03/16/sas-institute-the-multi-billion-dollar-business-analytics-supplier-2", "datePublished": "15/03/2011", "dateModified": "15/03/2011", "articleBody": "The just-concluded SAS Institute analyst summit (Twitter: #SASSB) provided the annual update on the company’s performance, strategy, products and customers. My analysis of last year’s event talked about its continuation of its product roadmap to new customer acquisition and the broadening of its underlying platform, applications and vertical solutions. SAS is no small-time mover and shaker when it comes to the analytics industry; it extends from technology to tools and applications across industries, which adds up to $2.4 billion in revenue. SAS’s growth was worldwide, with Canada and Asia-Pacific delivering the largest percentage revenue growth and Europe, Middle East and Africa representing the largest revenue for the company at more than $1 billion in revenue; U.S. revenue came in slightly lower. Just as important for this software giant is its success in advancing new sales, which were up 20 percent, a sign that it has been able to reach beyond its core customers that have been leasing SAS for decades. The largest part of SAS’s revenue (42%) comes from the financial services industry, followed by government with 15% and services industries representing 11%. But many do not realize that SAS has been expanding its offerings by making them easier to access via the cloud, an area in which it grew by 34 percent in 2010, contributing significantly to the growth in its core of analytics and fraud. SAS has prided itself for many years on its focus on employees, earning an industry #1 rating as a place to work. But its focus on customers and products has earned it high ratings as well as SAS has invested in improving the usability of its broad portfolio. In defining its core business strategy for 2011, SAS has set five global priorities: analytics, customer intelligence, data management, risk and fraud. These priorities reflect the areas where SAS found the largest growth in 2010: in the Americas, customer intelligence grew by 229 percent, risk management by 111 percent, fraud by 241 percent, and its focus on DataFlux for Data Management grew globally by 29 percent. All of these are areas of comfort for SAS, areas where it has market growth and deep competencies. Speaking to the analyst summit about his company’s technology strategy, CTO Keith Collins outlined focuses on high performance computing, process automation, business visualization, data management and software as a service. All of these are unquestionably important; I hope that SAS also investigates the value of introducing new collaborative methods for person-to-person and person-to-group interactions of the kind we have seen from the likes of Salesforce.com with Chatter and SuccessFactors with CubeTree. All systems used for business should be able to support collaborative interactions that can draw on its workforce’s knowledge and experience to maximize value. SAS is continuing to develop the framework of its core of business analytics on which it has been working for 30 years. It stretches across data mining, forecasting, modeling, scoring and simulations all the way to advancements in supporting text and sentiment analysis. SAS also has gotten a lot better in discussing the business use of its algorithms and how they can be operationalized into activities and process. This analytics core is the foundation of its business; on it rests the layers of integration with information and data architectures across an enterprise. SAS has invested significant time in making its analytics more accessible to stand as an alternative to other data-centric computing technologies like Teradata and new players like Aster Data which was just acquired by Teradata, Netezza which was acquired by IBM and Greenplum, acquired by EMC. SAS is betting these investments in high performance computing will make its analytics part of a larger future grid computing strategy in IT; it believes it will address inefficiencies in the new Hadoop and large scale data technologies as well as take advantage of massively parallel processing data technologies. SAS can abandon one partnership, which aimed to integrate its technology into the now-shut-down HP Neoview; now, however, HP has acquired Vertica to increase its columnar capabilities as my colleague has noted. SAS is not about to allow itself to be excluded from capitalizing on the broader demand for information management; in this regard it has continued its efforts with DataFlux, which it wholly owns. Last year I did a review of its direction. In a surprise move DataFlux also acquired Baseline Consulting to get more management and technology consulting depth to help it scale its ability to help organizations transform their data and information strategies across business and IT. It also now brings deeper value to its data integration, data quality and master data management portfolio with new technologies for federated data access and complex event processing (CEP) that compete against IBM, Informatica, Oracle and SAP. I highlighted the importance of CEP and what we call Operational Intelligence, which is well-defined in Wikipedia; it’s good to see SAS understanding this as a competitive necessity and so addressing it as part of its portfolio. But I’m not sure SAS understands yet the importance of interconnecting to existing and newly implemented event streams in the enterprise. SAS readily admits it should be a larger player in the business of business intelligence (BI), but its BI portfolio is still a good part of its overall revenue, estimated at about 10 percent. In response to some pointed questions about its commitment to BI, SAS provided more detail on its efforts. SAS is busy rewriting much of its BI portfolio, using its 350 developers to more thoroughly embrace the mobile technology revolution being driven by smartphones and tablets. As part of its overall strategy, SAS has announced a strategic partnership with MeLLmo and the Roambi technology. Demonstrating the integration of SAS Enterprise BI Server and Roambi ES3 technology already is helping existing customers get mobile-ready for Apple iPad and iPhone devices. Our benchmark research into business intelligence and information applications found a high level of demand by business, but also found IT not yet as optimistic or engaged in enabling the use of mobile technologies. Even our pending benchmark research in business analytics across thousands of organizations finds new demand across specific line-of-business areas. SAS does get overlooked for business intelligence projects quite often and for a number of reasons that are more related to marketing and sales to the target audience of BI and line-of-business analysts than to their product not having sufficient capabilities. It appears that SAS in 2011 will have a series of new releases to broaden the scope of BI with advancements in discovery and visualization, search, mobility and integration with Microsoft Office. This will be essential to compete against the usual suspects like IBM, MicroStrategy, Oracle, QlikView, SAP and even open sourced-based Actuate, Jaspersoft and Pentaho, all of which in the last year have released major new versions of their platforms and tools. Where SAS has made its presence known is in the office of marketing and related areas, helping them succeed in management and specific operational activities including campaign management and a range of customer analytics from gaining predictive insights on future outcomes to understanding customer behavior at a granular level. SAS has emphasized its focus on resource management, bolstered when it purchased Veridiem many years back and now augmented by the recently announced the acquisition of Assetlink to further deepen its presence in marketing. My colleague recently assessed SAS Customer Intelligence and the portfolio that is gaining traction with new deployments across industries. SAS has also expanded its social media analytics offering to support monitoring deeper sentiment and relationship analysis . SAS has for many years focused on improving the role of technology in marketing, an area that has also been seen as important by the likes of IBM, which acquired Unica and Coremetrics, and recently Teradata, which acquired Aprimo. Our benchmark research into customer analytics and marketing analytics show significant room for improvement, potential that will continue to provide SAS room for great customer and revenue growth. SAS is working hard to unify its suite of applications, seeking to ensure consistency of user interfaces and then deliver support for the mobile needs of marketing organizations. All of these activities are heating up what looks like to be a battle for the CMO’s attention and spend – a battle that will require fluency in talking marketing-speak to be successful. SAS has invested more deeply into four key industries: banking, insurance, retail and government. I will not get into the details of the significant growth of the offerings that address risk and fraud for these industries and healthcare, as they require more in-depth analysis, but this clearly is where the business analytics foundation plays to its strength in providing suites of applications. One of the interesting aspects of the analyst summit was what was missing as part of SAS’s communications about strategic directions. SAS has invested into many areas including finance, human resources, supply chain, sustainability, IT and into areas of performance management. All of these areas have potential and were highlighted last year, but SAS’s efforts in these areas remain mostly unknown by the specific line-of-business buyers; unless and until SAS invests further into the marketing and sales it probably will not find much new growth compared to previous years. This should be something that concerns it, as have a growing base of customers focused on solving their enterprise problems helps drive improvement and refinements to its business focus. I also have not seen SAS invest yet into area sales and customer service or contact centers. SAS has alluded to adding support for contact center operations but we’ll have to see how that plays out in regards to my colleague’s research areas of agent performance management and customer experience management. Also, I pointed out last year and still believe that SAS will need to invest into speech analytics to gain insight to the true voice of the customer that can be found in customer interactions in contact centers. From a market perspective SAS has business analytics competencies in industries where I do not see that IBM and SAP have deepened their efforts. On the other hand, SAS is not as strong in healthcare, retail, life sciences, energy and manufacturing. I am sure this will continue to change as the market heats up. I also am not clear where Oracle is at since it has not articulated a portfolio approach to business analytics across industries and lines of business beyond IT and its own application efforts. Also, I need to make sure not to miss the dozens of dedicated line-of-business analytic and performance management application providers that are growing rapidly in areas like sales, contact center and talent management. SAS has come a long way since IBM donated a mainframe to a university in North Carolina to help advance the statistical programming movement in 1966, back when Tony Barr was part of the origins of the statistical analysis software. Tony and Jim Goodknight, John Sall and Jane Helwig started SAS Institute in 1976. In now reaching its 35th anniversary, SAS Institute has helped advance the science of analytics in so many ways that will never be measured. Now SAS Institute will need to examine if it can expand beyond its comfort level and areas of growth it has outlined to areas where it has new growth potential. If you have not considered SAS for technology and applications in a range of business analytics, look again; there are many great business-friendly offerings that can provide great value. SAS is transforming and simplifying its efforts, bringing its offerings into the cloud, which is part of the reason it has been able to grow without having to increase its consulting services organization. SAS has also opened up and worked very closely with consulting services firms that can help use its technology to transform management and business processes. The only caution in considering SAS is to be aware of the areas where it has not yet upped its investment. But it is worth watching it attempt to deliver on a mission of business analytics for every line of business and industry. SAS appears to be in revenue and product portfolio the largest supplier of business analytics technology and products, and will continue to grow as businesses invest into the information and analytics that help them not just optimize but perform at the expected level. 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": "SAP Enterprise Information Management 4.0: A Technology Secret", "mainEntityOfPage": "https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/03/14/sap-enterprise-information-management-4-0-a-technology-secret", "datePublished": "13/03/2011", "dateModified": "13/03/2011", "articleBody": "SAP has launched its Enterprise Information Management (EIM) 4.0 release as part of its “Run Better Tour.” It includes a broad range of information management components spanning data integration, data quality, data profiling, metadata management and more. The launch was done in conjunction with SAP Business Intelligence (BI) 4.0, which got much bigger billing at the event –to the point where one might call this a stealth marketing campaign. However, the event did identify three themes intended to highlight EIM capabilities: event insight, trusted data and text processing. The goal here was to communicate the integration SAP has achieved within and between its BI and EIM products. IBM announced a similar advance with its InfoSphere products and Informatica has also invested heavily in integrating its information management products. Our Information Management benchmark research validates this approach, finding that incompatible tools create a significant obstacle to organizations’ quest for consistent sets of data. With this release SAP also announced three new products: SAP BusinessObjects Data Services, SAP BusinessObjects Information Steward and SAP Business Objects Event Insight. Data Services brings together ETL (extract, transform and load) capabilities, data quality and text processing into a single set of services. With this release, SAP supports address cleansing for more than 230 countries. In addition, the data quality components are available as an embeddable set of self-contained libraries requiring no application server. This architecture makes it easier to embed within third party applications. Data services is also the engine for moving, transforming and loading data and metadata into SAP’s in-memory, high performance analytic application, HANA. This suggests high throughput rates for Data Services, since HANA is about performance and real-time access to data. Text data processing, formerly based on Insight, which was a separate acquired technology, has been consolidated with data services in 4.0. A demo is available of the text data processing capabilities being used to perform sentiment analysis of a tweet stream in what is becoming a required showpiece for all BI software vendors. While sentiment analysis of social media data makes for an interesting demo, it remains a very difficult problem to solve. If in the demo you view the tweets with a strong positive sentiment, you’ll see that first page includes 10 tweets. While those tweets contain positive sentiment with words like “excellent,” “thanks” or “positive,” it turns out that seven of the ten are actually expressions of positive sentiment about reviews of the event, not the event itself. I’ve seen the same flaw in other vendors’ tweet stream analyses as well. While most of these products, including SAP’s, allow you to extend the libraries used for determining sentiment and context to produce more accurate results, I would use caution before relying too heavily on these automated analyses. The second of the three new products, Information Steward, provides data governance capabilities designed to help increase, in SAP’s words, business users’ trust in the data. Trust is an important issue. Our Data Governance research found that only 9 percent of organizations completely trust their data for decision-making. Information Steward provides, among other things, profiling and data quality dashboards, including the ability, accessible from the front-end BI tools, to drill down into the details behind quality scores and key performance indicators. Users can even see which records have failed in recent integration processes. Another capability, Cleansing Package Builder, can profile a set of data to derive rules about that data. These automatically derived rules can then be reviewed and modified or augmented as necessary. The third new piece to the SAP EIM portfolio, Event Insight, manages event-based data to enable operational intelligence using real-time data. The new product is based on the Aleri technology acquired as part of the Sybase portfolio of products. Event Insight has three basic capabilities: the ability to process streams of data such as network traffic, combine that with historical data, and deliver the information in real time to users. In order to help increase scale and reduce network congestion, SAP has architected technology to “push down” some of the event filtering to decentralized servers. The historical data is still centralized, so the rule execution must still happen at the central server. This technology is part of what is known as complex event processing; our research into operational intelligence found a need for improved efficiency of business processes utilizing events. SAP placed significantly less emphasis on security than have other information management vendors I’ve spoken with. For instance, there was no mention of data masking, which competitive products provide. Another area that was noticeably lacking was integration with Hadoop. Many information management vendors are incorporating Hadoop into the product strategies and I expect we’ll hear more from SAP on this in the future. Overall, the integration delivered in this release should benefit users; SAP now has the unusual opportunity to provide that integration all the way from ERP applications through information management processes to business intelligence. My colleague has pointed out the importance of business and IT engagement and where SAP is integrating the technologies further to meet that need. In addition, SAP’s HANA provides evidence that SAP wants to exploit the larger information and analytics opportunity further by accelerating the processing of data to information for a range of business needs. Now SAP needs to decide if it should market this set of technology further to capitalize on the demand or just keep it part of the business intelligence efforts. 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": "CallTower Powers Communications in the Cloud", "mainEntityOfPage": "https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/03/14/calltower-powers-communications-in-the-cloud", "datePublished": "13/03/2011", "dateModified": "13/03/2011", "articleBody": "The contact center market is buzzing with talk about cloud-based computing. It began with applications such as CRM from salesforce.com, then came IBM with services based on hardware in the cloud and recently vendors such as Contactual, inContact, and LiveOps have brought nearly complete contact centers into the cloud. As well, vendors such as Interactive Intelligence have announced communications in the cloud. Now I have always considered public communications to be in the cloud: How else does a telecommunications operator route a call from one part of the world to another? Likewise how does the Internet log users into websites, which are based who knows where? What Interactive Intelligence and other such vendors do is add intelligence to call-handling – they make communications smarter. For example, they add smart routing so calls can be delivered based on a predefined set of rules. This is beneficial to companies running “virtual” contact centers because a call can be routed to the location and person best qualified to handle it. Another company, perhaps not so well known as those mentioned above, is CallTower, which has been providing these kinds of services since it was founded in 2002. At first its services were relatively basic and built on a simple setup. Calltower hosted the Cisco CallManager product, from which calls were routed to the CallTower data center where CallManager could then route the calls onward according to predefined rules such as the least expensive routing. The core of the service has remained pretty much the same, but CallTower has enhanced its services significantly by upgrading to the latest Cisco Unified Communications products. Along the way, it also started to host some Microsoft products and now can provided services using Exchange Server 2010 and LyncServer 2010. CallTower has integrated all these products along with some in-house developments and integration with services from Sprint, Ploycom and InterCall. As a result it now offers business telephony, unified messaging and e-mail, conferencing, mobility, video and collaboration, becoming a one-stop shop for smart communications services. And it doesn’t stop there. Having integrated products from inContact and Contactual at the data-center level, it can offer a full range of contact center services in the cloud, although customers would have to have contracts with both CallTower and the chosen contact center application provider. Along with the normal benefits of cloud-based solutions – little capital expenditure, predictable monthly costs based on usage, flexibility and disaster avoidance – CallTower offers all the necessary professional services to get a company up and running, 24-by-7 support, and no obsolescence through a commitment to keep up with the latest releases of all the products that it uses. The service is highly scalable; the average customer size has grown from 24 users at 1.4 locations to 94 users spread over 4.2 locations. New partnerships and developments are set to increase these figures significantly over the next few years. One of my main research focuses these days is customer experience management (CEM). I see smart communications at the heart of CEM. In fact some of my other research, into agent performance management, showed that companies realize that the person who handles a customer’s call has the biggest impact on the resulting level of customer satisfaction. Getting calls to the most capable person is therefore critical, and so companies need to be smart in managing their communications. CallTower is a vendor that can support these efforts. Is your company run over multiple locations? Do you run a virtual contact center? 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": "When It Rains, …", "mainEntityOfPage": "https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/03/14/when-it-rains-", "datePublished": "13/03/2011", "dateModified": "13/03/2011", "articleBody": "A colleague had written a piece about disaster recovery and business continuity – motivated not by the horrors that exploded over the television last night after an 8.9 earthquake off the coast of Japan triggered a tsunami, but by unexpectedly heavy rain and snow in the northeast. Should he hold off publishing it, he asked, so as not to be seen as exploiting the disaster? The answer is no. I’ve written about and tried to address disaster recovery many times in my career, and yet it can never be addressed too often. Sure, a leaking roof isn’t a problem in nice weather, but we all know, sort of, that that’s when the leak should be fixed. But that’s also when the trees, vegetables and flowers need to be fed and mulched, when a coat of new paint can be applied to make the house more inviting to visitors, when the old wiring can be updated to handle all the new toys – er, productivity tools. Ensuring business continuity has never been easier. Broadband connectivity to the cloud is close to being a given, and storage has never been so inexpensive. If your business information management strategy includes the duplication of at least strategic information in a different but easily accessible location and if key employees know where to go and how to proceed if they can’t get to their normal workplaces, a catastrophic event cannot destroy your business. What hasn’t changed is that business continuity requires planning, and the first step is purely volitional. Now – when the sun is shining, when there are no floods, or earthquakes, or tsunamis – is the time to address what a disaster would do to your business. Regards, Alan Kay – VP Research Management", "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": "Aquire Brings Fresh Face to Workforce Analytics", "mainEntityOfPage": "https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/03/11/aquire-brings-fresh-face-to-workforce-analytics", "datePublished": "10/03/2011", "dateModified": "10/03/2011", "articleBody": "The state of the economy has intensified scrutiny of organizations’ people assets, and so we’re seeing new dialogues about human capital management. Deriving full value from the people in a workforce requires more than just HR managing annual performance reviews or occasional scrutiny of the compensation processes for increases to merit pay or incremental incentives. Investing wisely in workforce-related processes requires assessment and optimization using analytics that can provide a lens on the past but more importantly can provide visibility into forward-looking results. This renewed focus on improving the workforce analytics fits with the findings of our recent benchmark on workforce analytics, which shows that workforce analytics are important to 89 percent of organizations. But using them efficiently and effectively is no easy task since spreadsheets are used in 62 percent of organizations. In 2010, a technology provider named Aquire used the knowledge it had gained in developing its OrgPublisher application, which is used for organizational hierarchy management, to launch a new application called Acquire Insight. This announcement, not well covered by the industry press, was a large contribution to the resurgence of workforce analytics that utilize a combination of the organizational chart and a new generation of user interfaces to more easily present metrics and what I call key people indicators. Aquire Insight is delivered using a software-as-a-service- or SaaS-based approach – what we increasingly will call cloud computing – to ease onboarding and decrease the time to operational value of the workforce analytics. Instead of just using pie or bar charts, the Aquire Insight application makes it easy to assess the trends of the KPIs and underlying metrics to determine where improvements should be made within a division, down to the individual department and operational manager. From the top-level view one can easily do root cause analysis of issues ranging from attrition to underperformers. The organizational chart is used as a visualization tool and analytic framework within which to advance the workforce planning process, from hiring to succession. For those that want to easily understand how metrics and KPIs are being calculated, Aquire has provided a business-level explanation and visual representation of the analytic calculations. Aquire addresses the challenge of understanding the movement of talent in an organization in a unique way in Insight by using funnel visualization, which can look at the movement of new hires and transfers by level in the organization. The product provides some out-of-the-box analytics and metrics covering areas like recruitment, succession and workforce activities. Moreover, this workforce analytic tool can be used for planning purposes whenever an organization needs to determine the status of its talent. Workforce analytics and planning should be an core element of talent management processes and should be applied regularly to optimize existing activities. Aquire is addressing this need with some unique and very useful approaches that will; enable the user to understand the organization’s workforce and also perform the activities necessary to optimize its human capital. Insight has benefited from the experience and workforce reporting technology Aquire acquired in developing OrgPublisher, which is now in version 10. It offers search, visual reporting, chain of command views and support for non-Western languages. The application also has been configured to be able to access an HRMS from Oracle or SAP. Aquire is not new to the HR market. It has a foundation of 2,700 customers using its OrgPublisher technology and is beginning to address the demand for mobile access to this technology. It has been investing into a common platform called Aquire Unifi to support both of these applications. I see Aquire in a competitive battle with Human Concepts that I recently assessed who both use the organizational chart as a technology for providing workforce analytics and planning capabilities. If you are looking for workforce analytics and planning capabilities that can interoperate across your portfolio of applications from talent management to HRMS, Aquire should be on your list of vendors to assess. If you balance the evaluation criteria for assessing vendors and products with an eye on usability, manageability, functionality, adaptability and reliability, you will find a good offering for your organization. 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": "On Becoming Part of the Ventana Research Team", "mainEntityOfPage": "https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/03/11/on-becoming-part-of-the-ventana-research-team", "datePublished": "10/03/2011", "dateModified": "10/03/2011", "articleBody": "Hello there! Starting this week, I’m part of the best independent research team in the business – the Ventana Research team – and I couldn’t be more thrilled. As the song goes, “What a long, strange trip it’s been” to get here. For more than two decades I’ve held leadership roles in various capacities, including marketing communications, business development, employee development, talent management and general management, working in the human resources and recruiting services industries, high technology and higher education. Most recently I served as president of marketing software and services firm HRmarketer.com, where I worked for more than seven years, and as a principal of The Glowan Consulting Group, a leadership development firm. Prior to segueing into the greater HR marketplace over a decade ago, I worked with Silicon Valley icons such as Hewlett-Packard and Brocade Communications Systems on various product and service launches; I remember one newly created division at HP titled “e-solutions” for the enterprise, which launched before most of the world knew what exactly e-solutions were. We created a slick marketing launch for the division and then hit the market with an e-splash, only to hear crickets chirp and witness head-scratching. Now, e-solutions are everywhere. In fact, it’s almost a misnomer to use the term HR technology in the human capital management space because, well, technology envelopes companies big and small; it’s changed the way we work, how we hire for work and who we hire to work. Throughout my 10 years in the HCM marketplace, I’ve helped hundreds of HR software and services companies grow their businesses and bring to market leading-edge technologies for managing human capital and the workforce effectively. I’ve also had the opportunity of working with, and especially learning from, many of the leading HCM research analysts. But no matter how many vendors I’ve worked with over the years or how many HR practitioners I’ve spoken with, I’ve always found myself back at the intersection of supplier and buyer, helping each side make the best possible business case for working together. In my new role, I’ll be responsible for research and advisory services in human capital management at Ventana Research, covering major areas of workforce performance management and talent management and workforce activities including recruiting, hiring, performance, compensation, learning, succession and analytics and people-related activities that cross business processes. I’ll also be responsible for examining the role of business technology innovations including cloud computing, social media, collaboration, analytics and mobile technologies as they affect human capital. How cool is that? Very! I think the greater HR marketplace needs more independent voices, which is why I launched my Marcom HRsay (http://marcomhrsay.com) blog last November, and why I’ve been a prolific blogger in the space since 2004. But as I’ve gotten to know Ventana Research and how it performs its objective, primary benchmark research, I’ve found myself at home with its educational research and its savvy team of experienced, independent analysts. Unfortunately the market is plagued with surveys and other approaches that aren’t based on a rigidly objective research methodology and process; that’s what Ventana Research uses, and that’s why I have accepted the invitation to join this team. I look forward to collaborating with you. Please let me know your thoughts or come and collaborate with me on Facebook, LinkedIn and my new Twitter account for Ventana Research. 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": "VPI Makes Contact Center Operations Suite and Simple", "mainEntityOfPage": "https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/03/10/vpi-makes-contact-center-operations-suite-and-simple", "datePublished": "09/03/2011", "dateModified": "09/03/2011", "articleBody": "Running a contact center has never been easy, and today it is harder than ever. Customers have become more demanding of good service and less tolerant of errors and are inclined to communicate over multiple channels of communications. Companies not only have to get all the technology together to handle all these forms of interactions but must also ensure that their contact center agents are working as efficiently and effectively as possible. My latest research into the technologies companies use in trying to achieve these objectives shows that three goals dominate most companies’ planning: improving the information they have available to monitor and assess their overall operation, agents’ performance and the outcome of interactions; focusing training and coaching to better target the needs of individual agents; and improving their interaction-handling processes. Voice Print International (VPI) is a vendor whose suite of products covers the majority of these requirements; it was rated a Hot vendor in our recent Ventana Research Value Index: Agent Performance Management 2010. All the products were developed by VPI and thus are tightly integrated with each other. The latest release, VPI Empower Suite 5.2, has some new capabilities that address companies’ top-of-mind issues. Reporting and analysis have been enhanced to include more metrics, such as end-to-end interaction-handling time, first-call resolution (FCR) times, number of calls resulting in FCR, and multicall resolution times. Standard analyses have been added that focus on key business issues and use the 80/20 rule to find indicators that have the greatest impact on business performance. Improved desktop analytics allow companies to determine which interaction processes are working best, which agents are optimizing the way they handle interactions, and how interaction-handling processes can be improved. My APM benchmark research shows that the majority of companies have quality monitoring (QM) programs supported by traditional QM systems. These derive information largely from supervisors completing a standard QM form, reviewing it with the agent and signing off on the process; after that, it is often left to chance whether the agreed actions are carried out. The latest release from VPI includes an interesting concept called smart evaluations, which takes QM to the next level. The process is still driven by forms, but they are more dynamic. Parts of the form can be completed automatically: for example, information from a customer survey could be entered automatically on the form. In the same way speech and desktop analytics could be used to create a quality score that could also appear on the form. Second, users can build rules behind the form, which result in information and/or calls to action appearing on the form: for example, a low score for identifying the customer’s issue could trigger instructions to the agent to take a particular e-learning course or to a supervisor to give some one-on-one coaching. Third, rules can be set up to ensure actions are taken: for example, the results from an e-learning course could be registered back on the form, effectively closing the QM loop. Such automation and rule-driven actions can reduce overall effort, make the process more personal to the agent and achieve greater consistency across the whole QM process. Alongside these functional improvements, VPI has made the applications easier to deploy and administer, improved the user interface, and installed more user control and better compliance. Like several other vendors it now has hosted options for deployment, which include having a secondary backup site hosted remotely. VPI has come a long way since my analysis at end of 2009 and have improved the breadth and depth of its contact center suite of offerings. There is a lot of talk today about how changing consumer communication habits are in turn changing the way customers interact with companies. While I agree and urge companies to address the changes, I believe that people will still be calling contact centers for quite a few years. Agent performance therefore will remain critical to both business success and delivering exceptional customer experiences. As our APM Value Index shows, VPI is one of the leading vendors in this space, and these enhancements are likely to improve its position. Do you agree that agents are key to your future business success? 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": "SAS Institute: The Multi-Billion Dollar Business Analytics Supplier", "mainEntityOfPage": "https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/03/10/sas-institute-the-multi-billion-dollar-business-analytics-supplier", "datePublished": "09/03/2011", "dateModified": "09/03/2011", "articleBody": "The just-concluded SAS Institute analyst summit (Twitter: #SASSB) provided the annual update on the company’s performance, strategy, products and customers. My analysis of last year’s event talked about its continuation of its product roadmap to new customer acquisition and the broadening of its underlying platform, applications and vertical solutions. SAS is no small-time mover and shaker when it comes to the analytics industry; it extends from technology to tools and applications across industries, which adds up to $2.4 billion in revenue. SAS’s growth was worldwide, with Canada and Asia-Pacific delivering the largest percentage revenue growth and Europe, Middle East and Africa representing the largest revenue for the company at more than $1 billion in revenue; U.S. revenue came in slightly lower. Just as important for this software giant is its success in advancing new sales, which were up 20 percent, a sign that it has been able to reach beyond its core customers that have been leasing SAS for decades. The largest part of SAS’s revenue (42%) comes from the financial services industry, followed by government with 15% and services industries representing 11%. But many do not realize that SAS has been expanding its offerings by making them easier to access via the cloud, an area in which it grew by 34 percent in 2010, contributing significantly to the growth in its core of analytics and fraud. SAS has prided itself for many years on its focus on employees, earning an industry #1 rating as a place to work. But its focus on customers and products has earned it high ratings as well as SAS has invested in improving the usability of its broad portfolio. In defining its core business strategy for 2011, SAS has set five global priorities: analytics, customer intelligence, data management, risk and fraud. These priorities reflect the areas where SAS found the largest growth in 2010: in the Americas, customer intelligence grew by 229 percent, risk management by 111 percent, fraud by 241 percent, and its focus on DataFlux for Data Management grew globally by 29 percent. All of these are areas of comfort for SAS, areas where it has market growth and deep competencies. Speaking to the analyst summit about his company’s technology strategy, CTO Keith Collins outlined focuses on high performance computing, process automation, business visualization, data management and software as a service. All of these are unquestionably important; I hope that SAS also investigates the value of introducing new collaborative methods for person-to-person and person-to-group interactions of the kind we have seen from the likes of Salesforce.com with Chatter and SuccessFactors with CubeTree. All systems used for business should be able to support collaborative interactions that can draw on its workforce’s knowledge and experience to maximize value. SAS is continuing to develop the framework of its core of business analytics on which it has been working for 30 years. It stretches across data mining, forecasting, modeling, scoring and simulations all the way to advancements in supporting text and sentiment analysis. SAS also has gotten a lot better in discussing the business use of its algorithms and how they can be operationalized into activities and process. This analytics core is the foundation of its business; on it rests the layers of integration with information and data architectures across an enterprise. SAS has invested significant time in making its analytics more accessible to stand as an alternative to other data-centric computing technologies like Teradata and new players like Aster Data which was just acquired by Teradata, Netezza which was acquired by IBM and Greenplum, acquired by EMC. SAS is betting these investments in high performance computing will make its analytics part of a larger future grid computing strategy in IT; it believes it will address inefficiencies in the new Hadoop and large scale data technologies as well as take advantage of massively parallel processing data technologies. SAS can abandon one partnership, which aimed to integrate its technology into the now-shut-down HP Neoview; now, however, HP has acquired Vertica to increase its columnar capabilities as my colleague has noted. SAS is not about to allow itself to be excluded from capitalizing on the broader demand for information management; in this regard it has continued its efforts with DataFlux, which it wholly owns. Last year I did a review of its direction. In a surprise move DataFlux also acquired Baseline Consulting to get more management and technology consulting depth to help it scale its ability to help organizations transform their data and information strategies across business and IT. It also now brings deeper value to its data integration, data quality and master data management portfolio with new technologies for federated data access and complex event processing (CEP) that compete against IBM, Informatica, Oracle and SAP. I highlighted the importance of CEP and what we call Operational Intelligence, which is well-defined in Wikipedia; it’s good to see SAS understanding this as a competitive necessity and so addressing it as part of its portfolio. But I’m not sure SAS understands yet the importance of interconnecting to existing and newly implemented event streams in the enterprise. SAS readily admits it should be a larger player in the business of business intelligence (BI), but its BI portfolio is still a good part of its overall revenue, estimated at about 10 percent. In response to some pointed questions about its commitment to BI, SAS provided more detail on its efforts. SAS is busy rewriting much of its BI portfolio, using its 350 developers to more thoroughly embrace the mobile technology revolution being driven by smartphones and tablets. As part of its overall strategy, SAS has announced a strategic partnership with MeLLmo and the Roambi technology. Demonstrating the integration of SAS Enterprise BI Server and Roambi ES3 technology already is helping existing customers get mobile-ready for Apple iPad and iPhone devices. Our benchmark research into business intelligence and information applications found a high level of demand by business, but also found IT not yet as optimistic or engaged in enabling the use of mobile technologies. Even our pending benchmark research in business analytics across thousands of organizations finds new demand across specific line-of-business areas. SAS does get overlooked for business intelligence projects quite often and for a number of reasons that are more related to marketing and sales to the target audience of BI and line-of-business analysts than to their product not having sufficient capabilities. It appears that SAS in 2011 will have a series of new releases to broaden the scope of BI with advancements in discovery and visualization, search, mobility and integration with Microsoft Office. This will be essential to compete against the usual suspects like IBM, MicroStrategy, Oracle, QlikView, SAP and even open sourced-based Actuate, Jaspersoft and Pentaho, all of which in the last year have released major new versions of their platforms and tools. Where SAS has made its presence known is in the office of marketing and related areas, helping them succeed in management and specific operational activities including campaign management and a range of customer analytics from gaining predictive insights on future outcomes to understanding customer behavior at a granular level. SAS has emphasized its focus on resource management, bolstered when it purchased Veridiem many years back and now augmented by the recently announced the acquisition of Assetlink to further deepen its presence in marketing. My colleague recently assessed SAS Customer Intelligence and the portfolio that is gaining traction with new deployments across industries. SAS has also expanded its social media analytics offering to support monitoring deeper sentiment and relationship analysis. SAS has for many years focused on improving the role of technology in marketing, an area that has also been seen as important by the likes of IBM, which acquired Unica and Coremetrics, and recently Teradata, which acquired Aprimo. Our benchmark research into customer analytics and marketing analytics show significant room for improvement, potential that will continue to provide SAS room for great customer and revenue growth. SAS is working hard to unify its suite of applications, seeking to ensure consistency of user interfaces and then deliver support for the mobile needs of marketing organizations. All of these activities are heating up what looks like to be a battle for the CMO’s attention and spend – a battle that will require fluency in talking marketing-speak to be successful. SAS has invested more deeply into four key industries: banking, insurance, retail and government. I will not get into the details of the significant growth of the offerings that address risk and fraud for these industries and healthcare, as they require more in-depth analysis, but this clearly is where the business analytics foundation plays to its strength in providing suites of applications. One of the interesting aspects of the analyst summit was what was missing as part of SAS’s communications about strategic directions. SAS has invested into many areas including finance, human resources, supply chain, sustainability, IT and into areas of performance management. All of these areas have potential and were highlighted last year, but SAS’s efforts in these areas remain mostly unknown by the specific line-of-business buyers; unless and until SAS invests further into the marketing and sales it probably will not find much new growth compared to previous years. This should be something that concerns it, as have a growing base of customers focused on solving their enterprise problems helps drive improvement and refinements to its business focus. I also have not seen SAS invest yet into area sales and customer service or contact centers. SAS has alluded to adding support for contact center operations but we’ll have to see how that plays out in regards to my colleague’s research areas of agent performance management and customer experience management. Also, I pointed out last year and still believe that SAS will need to invest into speech analytics to gain insight to the true voice of the customer that can be found in customer interactions in contact centers. From a market perspective SAS has business analytics competencies in industries where I do not see that IBM and SAP have deepened their efforts. On the other hand, SAS is not as strong in healthcare, retail, life sciences, energy and manufacturing. I am sure this will continue to change as the market heats up. I also am not clear where Oracle is at since it has not articulated a portfolio approach to business analytics across industries and lines of business beyond IT and its own application efforts. Also, I need to make sure not to miss the dozens of dedicated line-of-business analytic and performance management application providers that are growing rapidly in areas like sales, contact center and talent management. SAS has come a long way since IBM donated a mainframe to a university in North Carolina to help advance the statistical programming movement in 1966, back when Tony Barr was part of the origins of the statistical analysis software. Tony and Jim Goodknight, John Sall and Jane Helwig started SAS Institute in 1976. In now reaching its 35th anniversary, SAS Institute has helped advance the science of analytics in so many ways that will never be measured. Now SAS Institute will need to examine if it can expand beyond its comfort level and areas of growth it has outlined to areas where it has new growth potential. If you have not considered SAS for technology and applications in a range of business analytics, look again; there are many great business-friendly offerings that can provide great value. SAS is transforming and simplifying its efforts, bringing its offerings into the cloud, which is part of the reason it has been able to grow without having to increase its consulting services organization. SAS has also opened up and worked very closely with consulting services firms that can help use its technology to transform management and business processes. The only caution in considering SAS is to be aware of the areas where it has not yet upped its investment. But it is worth watching it attempt to deliver on a mission of business analytics for every line of business and industry. SAS appears to be in revenue and product portfolio the largest supplier of business analytics technology and products, and will continue to grow as businesses invest into the information and analytics that help them not just optimize but perform at the expected level. Regards, Mark Smith – CEO & EVP Research", "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": "The Contact Center Technology Revolution in 2011", "mainEntityOfPage": "https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/03/09/the-contact-center-technology-revolution-in-2011", "datePublished": "09/03/2011", "dateModified": "09/03/2011", "articleBody": "With the new year has come a significant advance in contact center technologies, enabling enterprises to roll out new applications and interaction-handling processes in record time. What used to take six months to a year to develop and deploy – and that was considered fast! – can now be done in a week or two, creating more potential for innovation in contact centers than I have seen in the last 20 years. The greatest change is in how companies provision the systems they need to handle interactions. For many years, and still to a large extent today, companies have preferred to license systems and software and deploy them on their own premises. This has been expensive, time-consuming and involving quite high risk as it typically meant integrating several systems from several suppliers. Over the past few years, though, we have seen an accelerating trend to purchase systems instead on a software-as-a-service model – or, to use the latest jargon, cloud-based. This changes the whole supply model and lets companies with even small budgets invest in innovative technologies. We also have seen an accelerating shift away from traditional CRM to customer experience management (CEM). CRM has tended to focus on automating internal processes such as market, sales and customer service. CEM, however and as our benchmark research has confirmed, focuses on the customer and aims to deliver an experience that exceeds customer expectations. CEM is being talked about a lot, but listening to these conversations makes clear that, as was the case with CRM, companies have different ideas what it is really all about. To me CEM is about managing interactions in real time so responses, whether from an agent or an automated system, are appropriate, in context and personalized. To do so, CEM embraces technologies such as smart call routing, a smart agent desktop, better programmed IVRs and easy to use, more natural language-based Web self-service applications. Using the insights available from new analytics capabilities and rules-based decision engines, the experience can be tailored to satisfy the customer and achieve the desired business outcome. My benchmark research into use of technology in contact centers found at present the two most popular channels of customer communications are calls to the contact center and visits to the company’s website. In other words, agents working in contact centers continue to have a major impact on the customer experience as confirmed in our agent performance management benchmark. Companies are therefore continuing to focus their efforts on improving the efficiency and effectiveness of this vital resource, seeking to increase agent utilization without impacting customer satisfaction, personalizing training and coaching more to address individual agent needs, and supporting agents so the outcomes of interactions are in line with business expectations. Businesses can look to five new technologies to support their customer satisfaction needs: cloud computing, social media, analytics, collaboration, and mobility. My head of research has identified the business technology revolution in 2011 and are directly relevant to my contact center resesarch. Of these, I suspect the most important is cloud computing. Anyone who has been involved in building a contact center knows there are three major challenges: integrating all the systems that manage the communication channels (telephone, e-mail, the Internet, postal mail, IVR, chat, mobile text messaging, social media), integrating all the applications needed to manage the contact center workforce and resolve customer interactions, and integrating both sets of systems together to create an environment to resolve interactions efficiently and effectively. Vendors have now emerged that can provide communications, applications and almost fully integrated contact centers in the cloud. This now makes it possible for even the smallest company to create a sophisticated contact center in a matter of weeks. Who for example would have thought two years ago that a contact center manager could use his or her BlackBerry to switch an agent’s calls from the office extension to the home number? Moreover, companies can apply these technologies to all interaction management and thus improve significantly how they interact with customers, all with far less risk and cost than ever before. More and more people are using social media to find out about companies and their products, to gather opinions and voice complaints. There are ever-increasing numbers of applications to manage a company’s presence on social media; how successful this proves to be for marketing, sales or customer service is, I think, still up in the air. However, what is certain is that companies need to know what customers are saying about them on social media because a bad mention from an influential person can have a far bigger impact than a single customer deciding to stop dealing with the company. Fortunately, thanks to building some clever data extractors that can pull data from most social media sites and also to advances in text analytics, vendors now offer products that allow companies to easily track what their customers are saying about them online. Smart companies are building these insights into their interaction-handling processes so they can respond in the most appropriate manner and through the most appropriate channel. Most contact centers have not aggressively adopted analytics, and my very latest research into contact center analytics shows that average call handling time, one of the most traditional of measures, is still the most important metric to track performance. This is about to change. The same research shows that companies are catching onto the value that new analytics products can deliver. I am seeing an increasing take-up of real-time operational, speech, text, desktop, predictive and social media analytics, so much so that I don’t think it will be long before companies can have that true 360-degree view of the customer, their agents and how their centers are performing. Companies can use these insights to respond to interactions in a more personalized way and within the context of their overall relationship with the customer, and focus agent training/coaching on specific areas that need improvement. This will result in happier customers and agents, less agent turnover and higher customer sales. The last two technologies, collaboration and mobility, are connected with the type and volume of interactions companies have to handle and how they are doing so. We are seeing consumers change their communication habits and companies use more employees handling interactions from outside the traditional contact center. Given these changes, there no longer is a choice: Companies must support more channels of communication and more at-home, mobile and knowledge workers handling interactions and still provide the best possible customer experience; if you don’t you will end up on Facebook or the customer will simply stop doing business with you. It now is indisputable that consumers are moving from fixed phone-based to smart, mobile phone- and tablet-based technologies for communications. This means that mobile call volumes will increase and companies will have to deal with more text messages, IM sessions and communications via social media. It also appears likely that as companies automate more simple interactions such as account balance queries and requests for information, a larger percentage of employees’ time will be spent handling more complex interactions. This in turn means that more knowledge workers need to be involved and companies will have to find ways to share information across communication channels and allow more employees to collaborate on the resolution of interactions. Applications such as Chatter and unified communications allow employees to collaborate more easily using an environment that also is consistent with that being used by customers. Many contact centers are challenged to come up with the budgets and skills to step up interaction-handling to the next level. Nothing comes without investment; therefore the business case needs to be based partly on a cost-and-benefit analysis but also on the need to innovate and advance technologically for the organization to stay competitive. As I see it, the combined effects of these business technology investments can have a dramatic impact for every organization no matter what size and industry. The challenge is yours – you need to look at your organization’s interaction-handling technology with new eyes to see to what extent you can renovate existing approaches, or if you need to innovate with something fresher, more interesting, and especially more relevant to your company’s future. 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": "Aster Data is Now Part of the New Teradata", "mainEntityOfPage": "https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/03/05/aster-data-is-now-part-of-the-new-teradata", "datePublished": "04/03/2011", "dateModified": "04/03/2011", "articleBody": "There has been a spate of acquisitions in the data warehousing and business analytics market in recent months. In May 2010 SAP announced an agreement to acquire Sybase, primarily for its mobility technology and had already been advancing its efforts with SAP HANA and BI. In July 2010 EMC agreed to acquire data warehouse appliance vendor Greenplum. In September 2010 IBM countered by acquiring Netezza, a competitor of Greenplum. In February 2011 HP announced after giving up on its original focus with HP Neoview and now has acquired analytics vendor Vertica that had been advancing its efforts efficiently. Even Microsoft shipped in 2010 its new release of SQL Server database and appliance efforts. Now, less than one month later, Teradata has announced its intent to acquire Aster Data for analytics and data management. Teradata bought an 11% stake in Aster Data in September, so its purchase of the rest of the company shouldn’t come as a complete surprise. My colleague had raised the question if Aster Data could be the new Teradata but now is part of them. All these plays have implications for how enterprises manage and use their fast-growing stores of data. We’re living in an era of large-scale data, as I wrote recently. Founded in 1979, Teradata has been a dominant player in this market for years. Teradata was a pioneer in massively parallel processing (MPP) for database systems that I recently described, a concept behind much of today’s analytic database market, including all the recently acquired vendors mentioned above. When I worked at Oracle in the late 1990s, Teradata was the chief competitor when pursuing 1 terabyte (TB) data warehouse opportunities. Yes, managing a single terabyte was considered a significant challenge then that few vendors were ready to take on. Although the data volumes have grown, little else has changed since those years with Oracle now competing against more providers despite its recent promotions of its second generation Oracle Exadata appliance and it Oracle 11g Release 2 database at the 2010 Oracle OpenWorld. Of course, that has all changed long since. Over the last few years Aster Data established itself as a player in the data warehousing market with an MPP relational database product. It also embraced the MapReduce parallel processing technology earlier than most other data warehouse vendors. MapReduce is a key concept of the increasingly significant Apache Hadoop project; it appears that Aster Data’s proprietary implementation of MapReduce was a significant factor in Teradata’s decision to acquire it. The tone of the joint Teradata/Aster Data briefing for analysts even suggests that Teradata is attempting an end-run around Hadoop. Aster Data has successfully developed a market niche of customers doing analysis of unstructured data and social networks. Both of these are activities one might use Hadoop to do. The company also had success in other segments, such as financial services, marketing services, retail and e-commerce. Aster Data customers should benefit from the increased resources Teradata can invest in developing the product, and the rich heritage of Teradata in this space should enhance the infrastructure supporting the Aster Data product line. For example, Teradata’s workload management tools are among the best in the industry. However, even if the association with Teradata brings some of these capabilities to the Aster Data platform, it’s likely that the cost advantages of Aster Data over Teradata will decline over time. Integration into the Teradata organization and technology stack could detour Aster Data from its previous path of innovation. So customers may see a longer time between releases and maybe a less ambitious product roadmap. Obviously Teradata has many more customers than Aster Data and is most concerned about them. They, too, might see some negative impact on development schedules, but on the plus side they instantly receive a new source of technology that could be beneficial to them. The question, as yet unanswered until a roadmap is published, will be how quickly Teradata customers can take advantage of the innovations Aster Data has brought to market. Teradata officials talked about Aster Data retaining some independence in operations, in the product line and perhaps in identity, but integration is the key to making the acquisition valuable to the Teradata customer base. One likely outcome favorable to current and future Teradata customers is more support for industry-standard server hardware, which was specifically mentioned as a benefit of the acquisition. Teradata customers may also benefit from the columnar database capabilities if those capabilities are ported to the main Teradata product line. There were a couple of notable omissions from the discussion as the acquisition was announced. Both Teradata and Aster Data had partnerships with SAS and Cloudera, the Hadoop vendor. The SAS relationship provided advanced analytics including statistical analyses and data mining embedded within the database. Teradata may be looking to shift to using Aster Data’s embedded analytic capabilities. With respect to Hadoop, although both companies had publicly announced partnerships with Cloudera, neither had offered any deep integration with Hadoop. I expect such an arm’s-length relationship to continue, but I suspect the new combination will put more weight behind the embedded SQL-MR capability that Aster Data developed. Teradata may be large enough to attempt such an independent strategy, but I think it would be a mistake to alienate the entire Hadoop community that I have been researching, which in my opinion is a market not served by Teradata today. Customers of other data warehousing companies should feel little immediate negative impact from this coupling. In fact, more competition over the analysis of unstructured data could spark those companies to enhance their product offerings. As I noted in beginning, the market for independent products has shrunk over the last six months, so the remaining vendors could see an increase in revenues as customers who were using Aster Data or others in preference to larger companies may start to consider other alternatives. However, at some point the musical chairs of the large-scale database acquisitions is going to stop, and when that does, if your vendor is still reliant on venture capital (VC) funding (i.e., does not yet have positive cash flow) you could have a problem. The VCs may decide to stop funding such a company, which could force them to scale back on their plans. Probably some other shoes will drop before the market shift is over. Dell had a partnership with Aster Data that is now called into question. Dell therefore might seek an alternative partner or even acquire one of the other vendors to get into the game. Potential candidates include many we have been assessing including: 1010Data, Calpont, Kognitio and ParAccel. I didn’t include Infobright in this list because it doesn’t have an MPP offering, which seems to be table stakes now. This latest acquisition could also lead to another round of acquisitions based on Hadoop or NoSQL technologies. Or perhaps the game may take a step in the direction of complex event processing or predictive analytics. We’ll have to wait and see although at this rate we may not have to wait long! 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": "Secrets Revealed in Columnar Database Technology", "mainEntityOfPage": "https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/03/04/secrets-revealed-in-columnar-database-technology", "datePublished": "03/03/2011", "dateModified": "03/03/2011", "articleBody": "This is the second in a series of posts on the architectures of analytic databases. The first post addressed massively parallel processing (MPP) and database technology. In this post, we’ll look at columnar database technology. Given the recent announcement of HP’s plan to acquire Vertica, a columnar database vendor, there is likely to be even more interest in columnar database technology, how it operates and what benefits it offers. Fundamentally, columnar database technology offers two primary benefits, increased speed and reduced storage requirements. We repeatedly emphasize the importance of speed to end users. Our benchmark research on business intelligence and performance management show that performance is a key consideration among those seeking improvement in this area. Besides speed and reduced storage other benefits may exist in particular implementations, but these are the two most significant – and most directly attributable to columnar technology. Columnar technology was made popular by Sybase, now part of SAP, with its IQ product. Today, many other vendors have brought columnar database products to market, among them 1010data, Calpont, Infobright, ParAccel, Sand Technology, SenSage and Vertica who was just acquired by HP. Recently, traditional row-oriented database vendors – among them Aster Data now being acquired by Teradata, EMC Greenplum and Oracle – have added some columnar capabilities to their products including. Additionally, in-memory database technologies frequently utilize column-based architectures. Columnar database technology typically includes columnar storage and/or columnar database execution. We’ll talk about both and why each is important. Columnar storage turns the traditional relational (row-oriented) database on its side. Instead of storing data in rows, which is the norm for databases such as IBM DB2, Microsoft SQLServer, MySQL and Oracle, data is stored by column. Whereas a row would consist of customer name, order date, amount of the order, order number, shipment date, method of shipment, and so on, a column of data would consist of all the customer names. A separate column would contain all the order dates. Another would contain all the order amounts, and so on. Row-oriented storage is more efficient (that is, faster) when recording or retrieving the data necessary to process a transaction. The disk only needs to go to one location for either operation. Column-oriented storage, on the other hand, is more efficient (that is, faster) when querying the same item across many rows of data, which is common in most business intelligence (BI) queries. Since all the similar items are grouped together on disk the database can scan them more rapidly than if it had to retrieve all the fields in a record just to get at one or two of them. The difference is magnified when querying hundreds of millions or billions of rows. Columnar organization yields several storage-related benefits as well. First, columnar databases make little or no use of user-defined indexes, so they require no additional storage other than that for the data. Second, once the data is sorted and stored by column, the potential for compression increases dramatically. One simple example I like to use is to imagine storing billions of stock quotes, instances of web activity, network activity or any other type of data that includes a date field. Even if you kept five years of history, there are only 1826 or 1827 (depending on leap years) unique date values in that time period. With a row-oriented storage approach, you would need to store all of those billions of values on disk. Using a columnar storage technique you could potentially store each date only once and record the number of occurrences for that date. This technique, referred to as run-length encoding, can lead to dramatic compression ratios, as suggested by the example. Other techniques are available too but I won’t go into those at this point. What is important to note is that the benefits of compression are significant enough that row-oriented vendors have figured out how to engineer some these same techniques into their storage algorithms. Let’s move on to the second major aspect of columnar databases, columnar execution. Columnar databases not only can reduce the amount of storage required, but also in many cases can reduce the amount of memory required to process the data. If the compact representation of the data can be retained as queries are processed, it follows that less memory is required to manipulate the data. Without going into all the details, some columnar database engines can select subsets of data and perform joins on the compact representation, resulting in even more efficiency and performance gains. Columnar databases do have their downsides. They are typically less efficient when it is necessary to update or delete data, for several reasons. First and foremost, updating or deleting a single row of data requires finding several locations on disk where the individual columns are stored. Even single row retrievals can be slower, resulting in a noticeable performance difference. I know of one financial service firm that has spreadsheets with thousands of individual data references in separate cells of the spreadsheets they use. Even though each individual lookup only takes a small fraction of a second longer, the overall performance is much slower because the difference is magnified many times over. The second reason updates or deletes can be slower is the organization of the data. If a single value in the middle of a long list of values is deleted or updated, some portion of the page needs to be reorganized. Depending on the vendor’s approach this reorganization issue can become significant over time as more and more updates or deletes are processed. Because of these issues with columnar databases, at least two hybrid implementations have emerged. One form of hybrid is a row-oriented database with some columnar capabilities added, such as those noted above. The other form is a columnar database with some row-oriented capabilities added on. Although a hybrid architecture minimizes the downsides of each approach, I suggest that you think about it this way: While a hybrid minimizes the downsides it does not eliminate them. The bottom line is that your database engine will be primarily column- or row-oriented, and you should consider that in the selection and evaluation process. Over time I suspect the hybrid techniques may approach each other in terms of performance and capabilities, but for the time being I think you will still see some differences depending on the specific use case and workload you are trying to manage. Columnar databases can also be implemented as MPP (massively parallel processing) systems, as hardware appliances or as in-memory systems. Calpont, Paraccel and Vertica are examples of MPP columnar databases. Kickfire, acquired by Teradata, is probably the best example of an appliance-based columnar system, while the SAP High-Performance Analytic Appliance (HANA) is probably the most ambitious in-memory columnar system. I hope you can use this information as you investigate database vendors and evaluate their product offerings. Consider whether you need columnar storage alone or if you need columnar execution as well. Consider whether the cost of learning and managing a separate system is worth the benefits. Consider your current and future use cases and how they match a row-versus-column orientation. Regardless of what you think you understand about the different approaches make sure to conduct a proof of concept with your data and your workload. As you might imagine from this article, the differences between these approaches can be subtle and a proof of concept is likely to be the only way to evaluate which approach works best for you. Regards, Ventana Research", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "", "height": 400, "width": 750 }, "author": { "@type": "Person", "name": "ISG Software Research", "url": "https://blog.isg-research.net/author/isg-software-research", "sameAs": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/ventana-research" }, "publisher": { "@type": "Organization", "name": "ISG", "url": "blog.isg-research.net", "logo": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://www.ventanaresearch.com/hubfs/ISG_Software_Research_Logo_Color@2x.png" } } }</script> <script type="application/ld+json"> { "@context": "http://schema.org", "@type": "BlogPosting", "headline": "Human Concepts Brings Workforce Analytics and Mobility to the Cloud", "mainEntityOfPage": "https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/03/04/human-concepts-brings-workforce-analytics-and-mobility-to-the-cloud", "datePublished": "03/03/2011", "dateModified": "03/03/2011", "articleBody": "Recently Human Concepts sold its personal organizational structure software OrgPlus to Administaff . Since it retains other products with the OrgPlus name, this step might seem puzzling, but it makes sense in terms of the company’s developing product strategy. The sale also frees Human Concepts to focus on organizations with more than 1,000 employees, where growth is more readily available. Human Concepts is experienced in the workforce management market; its customer and partner Zentiva Group won our firm’s 2010 Leadership Award in HR and Workforce Management. Late last year Human Concepts unveiled a new workforce analytics technology tool called Workforce Monitor. It uses the organizational chart as an analytical tool for more than display or monitoring of information – it can provide workforce analytics and planning to serve the needs not only of HR but of line-of-business management and analysts. The product does not just retrofit the limited capabilities of spreadsheets and presentations widely used for analytics, planning and publishing of workforce information. This is a valuable advance; our benchmark research in workforce analytics found that spreadsheets are used universally or regularly in 96 percent of HR organizations but that 39 percent of organizations are not satisfied with their technology and information is not actionable in more than half of organizations. As well as HR the other business areas need a fast and effective method for assessing the performance of individuals who may work in sales, field service or contact centers. Managers need quick access to quantitative performance metrics also to reformulate organizational structures. Currently most analytics and business intelligence tools only use charts and tables for review of data and provide little if any capability to understand the analytics and metrics by organizational structure. Human Concepts incorporates charts and tables as part of the drill-down process for reviewing departments, managers and employees from within the org-chart view. Our performance management for talent management benchmark found that gaining visibility about progress toward goals and targets has the highest importance in 94 percent of organizations, as does blending of organizational and personnel charts in 53 percent. Workforce Monitor addresses these needs in a simple way that advances the workforce analytics industry. In addition, Human Concepts has brought to market OrgPlus Mobile to provide rapid access to organizational and employee information on the Apple iPhone and RIM BlackBerry, with devices running Google’s Android coming in the near future. This application will help organizations provide ready access to the employee directory and related information in a secure and consistent manner, which normally is a challenge. This new capability, announced in late 2010, is timely as mobile access becomes significantly more important. It also sets the foundation for further advances in accessing other information from Workforce Monitor; the combination could create a significant opportunity for Human Concepts. But it is not yet clear how compatible the Workforce Monitor technology is with existing browsers and environments that operate on smartphones and tablet computers today. Both Workforce Monitor and OrgPlus Mobile complement the vendor’s OrgPlus Enterprise platform and can help existing customers gain more value from using the organizational approach to workforce analytics and planning. The new products also can add value to existing sets of data from underlying HRMS and talent management systems that rely on reports and dashboards by allowing users to examine the organizational chart. Workforce Monitor is made available in the rental model of software as a service (SaaS) or cloud computing, which enables users from HR or any other organization to start using the software rapidly. The price point for the technologies is calculated as a percentage of the number of employees. Now Human Concepts must convince more organizations to use the technology than merely its 600 or so OrgPlus Enterprise customers. Other organizations could use the capabilities through specialized data integration of their in-house data to the cloud-based system. Human Concepts will have to sharpen its marketing edge to increase enterprise sales and distribution through new channels. It must show the market that Workforce Monitor is not a monitoring or reporting tool but a sophisticated workforce analytics application that can help with organizational and succession planning and related areas. Career and succession planning is one of the top three functions that organizations in our research demand from talent and performance management suites. Their value may be even more important for contact center, field service, sales and retail store departments that have routine changes in employees and reporting structures; these departments need to analyze behavior proactively to improve business outcomes and not just wait for annual performance reviews. The tool also can be useful as organizations look to do what-if and scenario planning with their human capital. Human Concepts faces direct competition in its organizational approach from Aquire and others in the talent management application market, but its new approach makes a breakthrough in the simplicity of applying sophisticated analytics and planning in one application. 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": "Living in the Era of Hadoop and Large-Scale Data", "mainEntityOfPage": "https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/03/03/living-in-the-era-of-hadoop-and-large-scale-data", "datePublished": "02/03/2011", "dateModified": "02/03/2011", "articleBody": "It’s clear that now we are living in the era of big data. The stores of data on which modern businesses rely are already vast and increasing at an unprecedented pace. Organizations are capturing data at deeper levels of detail and keeping more history than they ever have before. Managing all of the data is thus emerging as one of the key challenges of the new decade. The solutions to this challenge vary, but interest in them seems to be universal. The largest database vendors and others that wish to compete with them are developing or acquiring various technologies, among them database appliances, massively parallel databases, and columnar databases. I have written recently about another contender in this arena: an open source, parallel processing technique named Apache Hadoop, which has gained popularity as a way to deal with very large sets of data. The rise of Hadoop has been dramatic. It has been successfully deployed at some of the largest Internet-based organizations in the world, including eBay, Facebook, Google and Yahoo. Seeing this, other organizations whose business depends on managing large amounts of data have begun to explore Hadoop as well. Last October 12 in New York City, Hadoop World attracted approximately 900 attendees. Local Hadoop user groups are popping up around the world and attracting hundreds of users . The Hadoop User Group on LinkedIn has more than 4,000 members. More and more software vendors area adding support for Hadoop. Daniel Abadi, who has done extensive work on a project called HadoopDB , recently received funding for a big-data start-up company. However, because the level of interest in Hadoop has grown so rapidly, there is little research on the business applications that use Hadoop and the IT requirements necessary to support a successful Hadoop deployment. Many audiences could benefit from independent research, information and analysis in this area. CIOs considering Hadoop need more information about the business case and the characteristics of successful deployments. Organizations developing Hadoop and related software products need to understand better the characteristics of the developing markets they seek to serve. And software companies looking to incorporate Hadoop need guidance on how best to adapt their own product lines. Another consequence of the dramatic rise in popularity of Hadoop is much confusion among vendors as well as buyers. The rapidly changing market situation makes it difficult for vendors to determine how to allocate investments in Hadoop in ways that will maximize revenues. Without reliable information, vendors are left to guess at what potential customers need, and so they risk creating a flawed strategy based on inaccurate assumptions about the market. To help address these issues, Ventana Research is conducting benchmark research that will gather data on the enterprise use of Hadoop, its key components and related technologies; we expect it to provide previously unavailable insights. The research will establish how Hadoop is being used and for what business purposes. It also will explore whether Hadoop is replacing existing technologies and, if so, which ones. In addition, this program will identify benefits that organizations are realizing from the use of Hadoop as well as issues they have encountered. Background about this benchmark research can be found here as will the results once they are available and if you are looking to participate. Whether you are working with Hadoop or using some other technology to tackle your big-data challenges, please participate in this research to help advance the state of the industry with respect to managing and analyzing large-scale data. 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": "SAP Business Intelligence 4.0", "mainEntityOfPage": "https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/03/02/sap-business-intelligence-4-0", "datePublished": "01/03/2011", "dateModified": "01/03/2011", "articleBody": "Last week SAP launched the 4.0 Release of its Business Intelligence and Enterprise Information Management products in conjunction with the New York City stop on its “SAP Run Better Tour”. My colleague Mark Smith has already covered the announcement in the context of some of today’s major technology trends. In this post, I’ll focus on the specifics of the product announcements. SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Release 4, more than three years in the making, supersedes SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise XI Release 3.1. The new release includes several other product name changes as well – for example, the Xcelsius visualization tool was renamed Dashboards – so if you, like I, were confused you can download a list of all the name changes through the following link: http://download.sap.com/download.epd?context=1DA760BA0F1EC83BE393EBA644F81666F51DD9A22B64430471986DC9069E0006EA2364413D2990C3DC0B25B525C25CBC22407270EEBDE423. The name changes were confusing, but it quickly became clear that three common themes run through all 4.0 products: better integration; the incorporation of real-time capabilities; and improvements in the user interface, including support for a variety of mobile platforms. One of the key reasons to consider SAP products rather than “best of breed” products from independent vendors is integration. Integration can mean different things to different people. From a technical point of view, integration means being able to access to data and information across applications, processes and business silos. From a user desktop point of view, it means being able to work in a common user interface on top and a common semantic layer underneath. (These, by the way, make systems easier to learn as well as to use.) Release 4.0’s improved integration capabilities address both points of view, but pay particular attention to the latter, and with good reason. Our latest benchmark research in business intelligence (BI) found usability to be the number-one consideration in evaluating a vendor and its products, especially on the business side, so these improvements should be welcomed by those evaluating new BI purchases. Other large vendors such as IBM are also focusing on this same theme in their stack of BI products. SAP executives also stressed that the new release’s real-time capabilities run throughout the product portfolio and its underlying architecture, allowing 4.0 products to collect large and store large volumes of data in real time and to display the results in real time as well. For instance, its Event Insights product collects and delivers real-time information as it occurs, while on the front end, SAP Business Objects Dashboards processes updates in real time and displays revised information as the underlying data changes. None of these capabilities matter, however, without the ability to collect and to prepare data in a timely fashion. Our benchmark research has shown that 96 percent of organizations take two or more days to deliver important metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs) to users. We at Ventana Research believe that’s too long. For this reason, release 4.0 supports the SAP High-Performance Analytic Appliance (SAP HANA), an in-memory database technology that speeds the processing of large amounts of data. While it is not a required part of the BI toolset, it is available if necessary to accomplish real-time database processing and analysis. To present that data, SAP has greatly expanded the capabilities of Dashboards. For example, SAP demonstrated the ability to link dashboard components so that changes in the data selected in one component would be reflected in similar changes to the other components displayed on the screen. It reminded me of work my colleagues and I did on ExpressObjects in the mid-1990s; in fact, in the middle of the demonstration I got a message via Twitter from a colleague who had worked with me on the product and who had the same impression as he was watching the webcast of the event. It was a good idea then and it’s a good idea now. What SAP brings to the table is a broader, more tightly integrated stack of products than we were able to offer at the time and a more modern platform that supports a variety of thin-client and mobile devices. Overall the Dashboards provide a nice user experience and incorporate some reasonable interactive visualization capabilities, including the ability to lasso a data bar to narrow the display or to drill down directly from the graphs. However, they don’t offer all the visualization techniques and interactivity of some specialist products such as Tibco Spotfire or Tableau Software’s Tableau Desktop. Another area SAP stressed was self-service BI. The SAP Explorer 4.0 provides an easy-to-use, search-based mechanism to access data from a variety of different entry points, including mobile devices. I first saw the 4.0 version of this tool at SAP Tech Ed demonstrated on an Apple iPad and I was impressed. It includes an associative search approach much like QlikView that allows you to search on characteristics you know rather than a rigid set of predefined keys such as product name. The user interface in the latest version is clean and modern, making it both pleasing to the eye and easy to understand. Explorer comes up a little short with respect to a broader definition of self-service, however. SAP has focused almost entirely on enabling ad hoc queries or searches without an existing or predefined query. In most cases, Explorer requires the data and metadata to exist already in an SAP Business Objects Universe. The exception is Excel; users can load and navigate Excel spreadsheet data using Explorer without outside assistance. I hope SAP will develop this aspect of self-service more fully so that users will be able to navigate data from other sources on their own without the intervention of someone with knowledge of Universes. Two areas that didn’t receive much emphasis at the launch are advanced analytics and predictive analytics. In SAP parlance, “advanced analysis” equals online analytics processing (OLAP) – or at least it did prior to the name changes I discussed above. The OLAP analysis capabilities are primarily oriented around the drill-and-pivot navigation of historical data analysis, in part because SAP’s enterprise performance management technology is still separate from its core BI products. I expect SAP will turn to HANA as a way to provide additional planning and what-if analysis. Today HANA’s Multidimensional Expressions (MDX) capabilities are limited to Excel, but SAP is working on expanding those capabilities. SAP is delivering predictive analytics, another key element, using its Predictive Workbench, but this product is based on IBM’s SPSS technology, which may explain why it had a lesser role in the 4.0 launch. In total, the Release 4.0 SAP provides a robust and relatively complete set of BI capabilities. Although individual point products may perform a specific set of functions better, if you are looking for a comprehensive, well-integrated BI platform with good mobile support, you should put SAP on your list of products to consider. 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": "Bringing Tax Into Mainstream Finance", "mainEntityOfPage": "https://blog.isg-research.net/2011/03/01/bringing-tax-into-mainstream-finance", "datePublished": "01/03/2011", "dateModified": "01/03/2011", "articleBody": "Taxes are a big expense for most companies, profitable or not. Many larger and midsize companies must traverse a complex and constantly shifting landscape of tax rules, rates, and jurisdictions. I’ve previously written about the need for corporations to manage their taxes more intelligently, and that that may require someone in the tax department who understands both the department’s functional requirements and what information technology can do to improve those functions. Today I am going to discuss some organizational changes that are required to transform the tax department from a poorly understood, isolated and tactically driven silo into a mainstream finance function that is tightly integrated with the rest of that organization. This transformation will depend in part on CFOs and controllers embracing three ideas: that they should have greater visibility into their future tax exposure, that they should be able to better optimize their tax exposure, and that they should actively and consistently manage their tax risk. In other words, they should apply the same basic performance management approaches used in other areas of the finance department, as well as throughout the organization, to tax processes. Performance management is an iterative process of cycles (or sets of cycles) in which companies plan, measure and assess results, then adapt tactics, strategies and objectives that reflect the new circumstances and will optimize future results. The performance management process requires relevant metrics, effective collaborative processes, accurate and timely data and the right analytics and reporting tools. The last of these enable all the rest and for finance is what I have been educating on for a decade in what is called financial performance management. Finance must manage their own performance but also have the ability to help guide an organization. Corporate tax departments have the same basic performance management software needs as general business users. They are: Planning – the ability to set baselines, determine optimal courses of action and understand the consequences these will have on a company’s income statement and cash flows. From a tax standpoint, this means streamlining and improving the accuracy of the processes used for planning and provisioning their direct (income) tax expense. Reporting – the ability to provide information (rather than just data) that also enlightens and alerts. For public companies, this means incorporating and managing important tax-related disclosures in their external financial statements; for U.S.-based companies, for example, these include what are called uncertain tax positions, or UTBs. Risk management – the ability to understand and manage the risk exposure of a company consistently and in a manner that is consistent with its risk appetite. Given the vagueness and complexity of tax rules (for example, when is a cake a cookie), corporations routinely make assumptions – some of them aggressive – that put them at risk of ultimately paying more than they have provided for in their tax returns. Analytics – the ability to provide measurements and insights. For taxes, this means automating tax analytics and providing an alternative to desktop spreadsheets. Dashboards – the ability to easily construct concise visual communications, such as charts and other graphics, that enable understanding of the information and that highlight actionable conditions. Scorecards – the ability to communicate quickly the performance of individuals or groups using a set of predetermined key performance indicators (KPIs). Some specialized tax software already provides performance management capabilities that can be critical in helping an organization transform its tax department. A company can find other capabilities in its existing software; for example, business intelligence (BI) tools always include generic reporting, dashboard and scorecard functions. Bringing tax into the mainstream, however, also means that finance departments will have to tightly integrate standard processes, such as budgeting, forecasting, treasury management, financial close and so on, with the output of their tax-related processes such as planning and provisioning. The speed with which tax goes mainstream will be influenced by tax policies and tax enforcement. When governments bite them hard enough and often enough with tax surprises, CFOs will begin to see the need to bring tax departments into the finance department mainstream. When enough CFOs are bitten, it will become a full-blown trend. Until that time, I see three important trends in taxes that will promote the mainstreaming of tax departments. First, many governments in the developed world are experiencing financial stress and are therefore looking for ways to increase revenues. For example, state and local governments in the U.S. are looking for ways to expand their tax rolls by finding new ways to attach “nexus” (a legal presence) to companies that are not physically located in their tax jurisdiction in order to collect direct (income) or indirect (sales and use/VAT) taxes. This will put additional pressure on companies to automate tax planning and provisioning. Second, mistakes can be costly and are likely to become even costlier. In some cases, companies could wind up paying taxes on the same item multiple times or paying fines for noncompliance when their tax departments should be spending time focused on audit defense and on optimizing their tax positions. Also, because of greater uncertainty over which tax laws ultimately will apply to whom and to what, companies will need to manage a broader set of uncertain tax positions. Third, a great deal of political pressure is currently being exerted to simplify tax codes; many of these proposals seek to lower rates and to expand the base by eliminating exemptions and preferences. Simplification, should it happen, is likely to lessen the pressure for more tax automation and management. However, since simplification is not necessarily in the interest of either those in charge of tax laws and regulations or those who currently benefit under the tax status quo, we should all be skeptical this will happen any time soon. I believe that what I have discussed here will come to pass. But even if only some of it does, companies still need to take a more intelligent approach to managing the processes they use to make tax decisions and to calculating and reporting their taxes. Doing so makes not just good business sense but also dollars and cents. Over the past two decades, finance departments have increased their efficiency by embracing automation in general and technology-driven performance management in particular. They should extend this embrace to their tax departments and bring them into the mainstream of financial management. 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