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FinancialForce Services-as-a-Business Is What Their Customers Need To Drive Growth
Service businesses must keep finding new ways to add value to existing clients while removing barriers that slow growth. Overcoming the challenges of outdated HR planning and human resource management (HRM), contract management, and CRM systems are table stakes for staying competitive. FinancialForce’s Summer 22 release aims to turn those weaknesses into strengths with one […]
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FinancialForce’s Spring 2022 Release Defines the Future of FP&A In Services
Economic uncertainty sends shock waves throughout businesses, with service organizations seeing its brunt. The recent drastic drop-off in Netflix subscribers is a case in point. Services CFOs say there is an urgent need to track how well their overarching planning strategies linking finance and operations perform. However, getting the data to analyze has been challenging […]
Cybersecurity CEOs Share How Businesses Can Protect Themselves In 2022
Bottom Line: Every business needs to resolve in 2022 to treat cybersecurity as a business decision first because the risk to operations and revenue are too great if they don’t. Any cybersecurity prediction for 2022 will likely be on the low side, given how ingenious ransomware attackers are at mining long-standing common vulnerabilities and exposures […]
How Services CPQ Helps Close Revenue Gaps
Bottom Line: Professional services (PS) organizations need to close the gaps in their CPQ selling strategies to win more deals, capture more revenue and protect margins from ongoing price pressure. Why Services CPQ Is Too Slow Today When PS organizations compete in sales cycles, the first competitor to have a complete quote with accurate pricing, […]
2021 State Of The Machine Learning Market: Enterprise Adoption Is Strong
59% of all large enterprises are deploying data science (DS) and machine learning (ML) today. Nearly 50% of all organizations have up to 25 or more ML models in use today. 29% of enterprises are refreshing their data science and machine learning models every day. The higher the data literacy an enterprise can achieve before […]
2021 Roundup Of AI And Machine Learning Market Forecasts Show Strong Growth
Forrester forecasts that the size of the AI software market will approach $37 billion by 2025. IDC predicts the worldwide artificial intelligence (AI) market, including software, hardware, and services, will grow from $327.5 B in 2021 to $554.3B in 2024 with a five-year compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 17.5%. By 2024, 70% of enterprises […]
Salesforce Sees Surge In $1M+ Deals Powering Record Q1, FY22 Results
Salesforce Q1, FY22 revenue was $5.96B, the best quarter in the company’s history. $1M+ deals hit an all-time high and were up 120% year-over-year. New $1M+ sales are averaging four or more Clouds, with senior management calling out Service Cloud during the earnings call as gaining strong traction in enterprises. Eight of the top 10 […]
The Most Innovative Companies of 2021 According to BCG
Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, Microsoft, and Tesla are considered the five most innovative companies, according to BCG’s analysis of the 50 most innovative companies of 2021. Abbott Labs, AstraZeneca, Comcast, Mitsubishi, and Moderna join the top 50 most innovative companies for the first time this year. The fastest movers include Toyota, who jumped from 41st to […]
36% Of Enterprises Predict Public Cloud Spending Will Increase In 2021
451 Research’s recent survey, Voice of the Enterprise: Cloud, Hosting & Managed Services, Budgets & Outlook 2021, provides new insights into how the pandemic acts as a catalyst driving organizations to pivot toward new digital business models faster than they had anticipated. The survey is based on interviews with over 300 cloud and IT professionals. […]
Gartner Predicts Public Cloud Services Market Will Reach $397.4B by 2022
Worldwide end-user spending on public cloud services is forecast to grow 23.1% in 2021 to total $332.3 billion, up from $270 billion in 2020. Garter predicts worldwide end-user spending on public cloud services will jump from $242.6B in 2019 to $692.1B in 2025, attaining a 16.1% Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR). Spending on SaaS cloud […]
Which ERP Systems Are Most Popular With Their Users In 2021?
Sage Intacct, Oracle ERP Cloud, and Microsoft Dynamics 365 ERP are the three highest-rated ERP systems by their users. 86% of Unit4 ERP users say their CRM system is the best of all vendors in the study. The survey-wide satisfaction rating for CRM is 73%, accentuating Unit4 ERP’s leadership in this area. 85% of Ramco […]
Shifting cost optimisation left: Spotify Backstage Cost Insights
Spotify is very much an engineering led company. It is also a product led company. Therefore when it decided it needed to get a better handle on its cloud spend, it decided to build an internal product designed to be used by its engineers. The result is Cost Insights, a plugin for Spotify’s Backstage developer […]
The False Choice of Prepaid vs. Monthly Contracts
In scaling the cash-flow side of SaaS, there’s almost nothing more powerful than annual contracts combined with prepaid cash. It’s just such a huge benefit. You get all the cash up-front, and your churn almost by definition goes down. Because the earliest chance the customer has to churn is 12 months hence. So get pre-paid annual deals whenever […]
Use Triangulation Forecasts For Improved Forecast Accuracy and Better Conversations
Ever been in this meeting? CEO: What’s the forecast? CRO: Same as before, $3,400K. Director 1: How do you feel about it? CRO: Good. Director 2: Where will we really land? CRO: $3,400K. That’s why that’s the forecast. Director 1: But best case, where do we land? CRO: Best case, $3,800K. Director 2: How do […]
Getting chatbot fatigue? Then upgrade to digital associates…
Let’s cut to the chase folks… chatbots have struggled to gain much of a foothold in the corporate tech innovation stack. However, our analyst Melissa O’Brien has spent the last few years studying how these engagement technologies are evolving deeper into the enterprise where they can truly augment staff and reduce a significant amount of their […]
LinkedIn Best Companies To Work For In 2021 Dominated By Tech
Four of LinkedIn’s top ten companies to grow your career in 2021 are tech leaders. Amazon is the highest rated company, followed by Alphabet (2nd), IBM (6th), and Apple (8th). 15 of the 50 top companies in the U.S. are in the tech industry, including Oracle, Salesforce, and SAP. These and many other insights are […]
Business
- FinancialForce’s Spring 2021 Release Shows Why Being Customer-Centric Pays
- Event Report: Google Cloud Industries Analyst Day
- Incumbents aren’t always incumbent. The case of Employee Communications.
- The Top 20 Machine Learning Startups To Watch In 2021
- How The Pandemic Is Accelerating Endpoint Security’s Growth
- The Top 20 Cybersecurity Startups To Watch In 2021
- 10 things to think about, if you want to be a more successful and genuine person in this emerging economy
- Enterprise La La Land
- What Enterprises Need to Plan for In 2021 When It Comes to Endpoint Security
- The Pandemic Is Teaching Enterprises How To Mind The Cybersecurity Gap
Startup Lessons
- A Tip of the Hat to Grid On Their Launch Day
- How A Startup Uses AI To Help You Find The Market Research You Need
- 10 Ways AI Is Improving Cannabis Yields And Security
- Research Report: Inside Constellation’s 2020 Enterprise Awards
- 12 Cybersecurity CEOs On What Each Learned Leading During The Pandemic
- The Key to Branding Success: Staying in Character
- 5 Interesting Learnings from Slack at $1B in ARR
- Marketing Targeting: It’s Not Just Where You Fish, It’s What You Put on the Hook
- Centrify’s New CEO Has A Compelling Vision For The Future Of Cybersecurity
- On the Perils of Taking Advice from Successful Business People
Technology / Software
- Burning Platform: The future of “as a service”
- Burning Platform: 25 years of “as a service”
- How To Digitally Transform Talent Management For The Better
- How LogicMonitor Buying Airbrake Unleashes DevOps To Do What They Do Best
- 10 Ways Cybersecurity Can Protect COVID-19 Vaccine Supply Chains
- How FinancialForce Is Using AI To Fight Revenue Leakage
- 10 Ways AI And Machine Learning Are Improving Marketing In 2021
- Securing Machine Identities Needs To Be A Top Cybersecurity Goal In 2021
- 10 Charts That Will Change Your Perspective Of Microsoft Azure’s Growth
- Burning Platform: A review of RISE with SAP
Trends & Concepts
- One word defines today’s business environment: Speed
- The Rise Of The Digital Executives
- Partner Post: How AI, BI, and DevOps will shape businesses in 2021
- 76% Of Enterprises Prioritize AI & Machine Learning In 2021 IT Budgets
- A Business Lifeboat Strategy
- Top 10 Tech Job Skills Predicted To Grow The Fastest In 2021
- Dissecting The SolarWinds Hack For Greater Insights With A Cybersecurity Evangelist
- The Best Tech Companies For Remote Jobs In 2021 According To Glassdoor
- Software Dominates Deloitte’s 2020 Tech Fast 500 With 71% Of All Companies
- What Are The Fastest Growing Cybersecurity Skills In 2021?
