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5 ways partnerships are like parenting

Stellar Partnerships

“Parenting is a lot like folding a fitted bed sheet. No-one knows how.” It was Mother’s Day last weekend and hundreds of mums were wakened by the sound of pots banging and toast burning as kids attempted a breakfast in bed surprise. Or maybe your fur baby decided that 6am was the best time to greet you with a wet nose, a friendly paw and demands for a walk.

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Expand Your Ecosystem: 7 Advantages of Partner Relationship Management

PLM Alliances

Sustaining growth in a highly competitive market doesn’t happen by chance. Indirect sales leaders are increasingly turning to partner relationship management (PRM) solutions to automate their key processes, drive greater partner engagement, and optimize every stage of their partner journeys. In this article, we’ll explore the major advantages of partner relationship management platforms, and why having one in your tech stack can be the differentiator that allows you to truly achieve scalable, su

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What is Stopping Your Organisation from Adopting Continuous Close?

TRG Blog

Over the past few years, there has been increasing interest in adopting real-time financial reporting processes. Organisations across various industries have recognised the potential benefits of continuous closes , such as enhanced decision-making, improved accuracy, and increased operational efficiency. So, why isn’t every organisation adopting continuous close by now?

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Capgemini and IBM Ecosystem strengthen partnership for Drone-as-a-Service

IBM Business Partners

Today, utilities and many other industries use drones extensively to conduct surveys, map assets and monitor business operations. They use drones for tasks as simple as aerial photography or as complex as sophisticated data collection and processing. The global commercial drone market is projected to grow from USD 8.15 billion in 2022 to USD 47.38 billion by 2029, at a CAGR of 28.58% in the forecast period.

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AI Strategies for Sales Managers: How to Cut Down on Tedious Admin Work

What if you could help your sellers stop wasting 72% of their day on non-selling activities and focus on bringing in revenue? Incorporating AI in your enablement workflows can help you cut down on busy work, get projects done faster, and let your team (and you!) focus on making a bigger impact. We put together this guide to show you how to use AI to cut time and costs for projects, including collateral creation, development of training videos, and automating tedious processes.

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CRM Cleanup Checklist: What Is Data Cleansing and Why Is It Important?

Chameleon Sales

Perhaps your company has collected prospect and client contact information well, and you’ve amassed a lengthy contact list. It might feel fantastic to look at such a long list of names, but is it as healthy as it is long? How can you ensure those contacts are still accurate and qualified? Enter: Data cleansing! So, what is data cleansing, and why is it important?

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A Flexi-Work World Needs New Performance Appraisals

INSEAD Knowledge

Although the days of full remote work may be over, many employees have expressed a desire for flexible work arrangements. But with Covid-19 no longer a global health emergency, more organisations could demand that people return to the office – setting the scene for an inevitable tug-of-war. Some organisations including Google, Meta and EY have continued to allow teleworking in some capacity, but others have followed the lead of Twitter’s new boss Elon Musk and insisted on calling employees back

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Make SAP ERP deployments future-ready with IBM Cloud

IBM Business Partners

As we navigate an unstable economy, organizations across industries want to be “future-ready,” and that requires systems and processes that can continuously evolve in response to the marketplace demands. For customers who run their operations on SAP, this means modernizing to a cloud ERP platform that supports greater flexibility and agility.

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LaVoieHealthScience Announces Building Company Narrative Workshop at 2023 BIO International Convention

LaVoie Health Science Blog

…Preparing Companies for M&A, Partnering, and More BOSTON & NEW YORK, May 18, 2023– LaVoieHealthScience (LHS), an award-winning global health science investor relations and public relations consulting agency focused on advancing health and science innovations, today announced the presentation at this year’s BIO International Convention entitled, “Building Your Narrative: How to Tell Your Company Story in Just 15 Slide Topics.

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How Infor SunSystems Can Help with Your Intercompany Accounting

TRG Blog

Intercompany accounting can be a complex and time-consuming process for businesses with multiple entities. The need to manage intercompany transactions and reconcile balances between related companies can lead to significant manual effort, errors, and delays.

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How to Build Competitive Channel Programs: Advice from 7 Channel Experts

The tech world is crowded. And that means the stakes for channel management have never been higher. How do you cut through the noise? Are SPIFFs, business plans, and marketing development funds really worth it? Get real-world, boots-on-the-ground insight into what it takes to build a partner relationship management motion that attracts, trains, retains, and motivates the right partners.

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How to Share and Manage Knowledge for Innovation

Hype

Knowledge sharing and innovation In the 1970s, Walker’s Wagon Wheel Tavern sealed its role in innovation history. Its name perfectly captured what took place there – like spokes on a wheel, people converged and the air was full of conversation on a Friday night. Ideas flew around, many of which crashed and burned. But some fused, became something bigger, gained momentum, and grew into new businesses.

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IBM named a Leader in the latest Forrester Wave™ report for AI Decisioning

IBM Business Partners

Forrester Research just released “ The Forrester Wave™: AI Decisioning Platforms, Q2 2023: The 13 Providers That Matter Most And How They Stack Up ” by Mike Gualtieri with Aaron Katz, Catherine Marcin, and Jen Barton, and IBM is proud to be recognized as a Leader. This report outlines the combination of traditional decision automation tools with machine learning models and other technologies.

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Tackle’s Guide to AWS Marketplace’s CPPO (Channel Partner Private Offers)

Tackle.io

If you’re selling on AWS Marketplace and leveraging private offers , you might also be thinking about expanding your reach and selling power by partnering with some of the more than 1,400 global consultants in the AWS Marketplace to reach new customers via CPPO (Channel Partner Private Offers). Read more: Tackle’s AWS Marketplace Seller Guide to People and Programs What are Channel Partner Private Offers (CPPO)?

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Building a Career in Partnerships: Advice From 7 Partner Leaders

Chaneltivity

Although partnerships have been around for a long time, a career in partnerships is fairly new in the B2B SaaS world. Unlike other roles, there’s not a tried and tested partnerships playbook you can just rinse and repeat. So, how do you know whether you’d be good at it? And if you think you would be, how do you convey that to partner leadership or parlay those skills into a partner role at a different company?

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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Resolving Construction Disputes in Michigan: How a Construction Lawyer Can Help

Tishkoff

Construction disputes can arise unexpectedly, causing delays, financial setbacks, and strained relationships between project stakeholders. Resolving these disputes efficiently and effectively is crucial to minimize disruptions and protect your interests as a contractor in Michigan. In this comprehensive guide, we will explore common construction disputes, negotiation strategies, and the invaluable role of a construction lawyer in achieving favorable resolutions for all parties involved.

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Leveraging partnerships, technology, and design to enhance water quality through the inaugural Aquality app

IBM Business Partners

Summary: Together with IBM, Deltares is working to enhance and expand the reach of its Aquality app, formerly called the Nitrate app. The tool can help farmers improve water quality, protect biodiversity, save on fertilizer costs and make farming practices more sustainable. The Aquality app leverages technologies such as machine learning to help communities detect nitrate pollution and other quality characteristics in water and is experimenting with artificial intelligence to provide feedback an

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A Comprehensive Overview of Infor SunSystems Cloud Core Modules

TRG Blog

Infor SunSystems Cloud offers two distinct suites of modules: Financials and Order Fulfilment. SunSystems Cloud Financials comprises ledger accounting, fixed assets, and corporate allocations, while SunSystems Cloud Order Fulfilment provides sales order management, purchase order management, inventory management, and costing.

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Innovation in Action: Tackle’s 2023 Cloud GTM Masters Awards 

Tackle.io

Building a successful Cloud GTM is a special kind of business alchemy: it takes a well-orchestrated strategy, dedicated people across the organization, the right tools and technology — and plenty of innovation. This year in particular has been tough for many companies. That’s why this year’s Cloud GTM Masters Awards celebrates the innovators—Tackle customers who have pushed boundaries, spurred momentum, and ultimately driven revenue through a well-executed Cloud GTM.

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Maximize Productivity and Simplify IT Management with Conversational AI

ChatGPT has dominated boardroom conversations for months now. From drafting a stock trading program, to creating a SQL query to model data, there are practically no limits to the applications of the AI language model assistant. At ManageEngine, we have been working on our own AI-assistant, Zia. Zia is a fully-trained analytics assistant that can perform a range of functions such as creating and adding reports to dashboards, providing conversational support to data analysis, insight discovery, bu

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Understanding Construction Contracts in Michigan: A Guide for Contractors

Tishkoff

As a contractor in Michigan, navigating construction contracts is a crucial aspect of your business. A solid understanding of the key elements and provisions in these contracts is essential to protect your interests, manage risks, and ensure successful project outcomes. In this comprehensive guide, we will provide valuable insights and practical tips to help contractors navigate construction contracts effectively in Michigan.

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TDC Digital leverages IBM Cloud for transparent billing and improved customer satisfaction

IBM Business Partners

Web-based ERP providers are experiencing significant growth and demand as more companies seek to streamline their business processes, cut costs and improve operational efficiency. With the rise of cloud computing, web-based ERP providers increasingly offer Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions, which have become a popular option for businesses of all sizes.

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More Things to Know about Infor SunSystems Cloud

TRG Blog

Infor SunSystems Cloud is a modern financial management solution that provides businesses with a comprehensive suite of tools to handle complex financial activities. Its intuitive design and flexible functionality make it an ideal choice for international enterprises and fast-growing companies seeking to streamline their accounting processes and improve their overall financial management.

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The Future of Crowdsourcing: What Are the Main Trends?

Hype

For decades, c rowdsourcing has been a n important idea-generation method for many companies. By bring ing together a diverse and broad community of people, this type of open innovation has the potential to uncover powerful solutions and solve complex problems. If carried out well , crowdsourcing u nit es the "crowd" in pursuit of the common goal of gathering cutting-edge innovation knowledge and insights.

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How to Prove Marketing Value: Demonstrate Content ROI and Contribution to Sales

Every marketer knows how important it is to prove their efforts drive sales opportunities, but that’s easier said than done. When problems like sales and marketing misalignment, lack of data, and wasted efforts persist, marketers can’t measure, prove, or increase their impact on revenue at a time when demonstrating marketing value is critical. Using analyst and expert data, this guide to marketing impact and content attribution explains: How B2B buyers use content The most common types of conten

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Innovation in Action: Tackle’s 2023 Cloud GTM Masters Awards 

Tackle.io

Building a successful Cloud GTM is a special kind of business alchemy: it takes a well-orchestrated strategy, dedicated people across the organization, the right tools and technology — and plenty of innovation. This year in particular has been tough for many companies. That’s why this year’s Cloud GTM Masters Awards celebrates the innovators—Tackle customers who have pushed boundaries, spurred momentum, and ultimately driven revenue through a well-executed Cloud GTM.

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IBM Hybrid Cloud Mesh: Reimagining multicloud networking with applications taking center stage

IBM Business Partners

Private clouds, public clouds, SaaS, on-premises and edge—as organizations leverage a more distributed, robust cloud-based strategy, they can also face more significant management and compliance challenges. This shift to the cloud may have, in many ways, left the traditional enterprise network stranded—no longer transporting the bulk of the enterprise network traffic, which now floats between the clouds and over the public internet.

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Relayr Applauded by Frost & Sullivan for Enabling Enterprises to Adapt Quickly to Changing Market Conditions and for Its Market-leading Position

Frost & Sullivan

SAN ANTONIO, TX. – May 18, 2023 – Frost & Sullivan recently assessed the equipment-as-a-service (EaaS) industry and, based on its findings, recognizes relayr with the 2023 Global Company of the Year Award. The company offers a holistic approach to EaaS – pay-per-demand, guaranteed performance as a one-stop-shop. Relayr partners with original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to develop and offer EaaS solutions tailored to the needs of industrial manufacturers.

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AI Is Enhancing Collaboration & Hybrid Work

Channel Insider

Artificial intelligence (AI) has captured the popular imagination. As a result, many managed service providers (MSPs) are wondering how they can incorporate AI into their service portfolios and use it to generate new business. Those service providers operating in the collaboration and hybrid work sector are especially fortunate because vendors in those areas are leading the way when it comes to harnessing AI in their existing products.

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How to Leverage Intent Data for Better Outcomes

Speaker: Susan Spencer, Principal of Spencer Communications

Intent signal data can go a long way toward shortening sales cycles and closing more deals. The challenge is deciding which is the best type of intent data to help your company meet its sales and marketing goals. In this webinar, Susan Spencer, fractional CMO and principal of Spencer Communications, will unpack the differences between contact-level and company-level intent signals.

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How a Michigan Construction Lawyer Can Help with Construction Project Closeouts

Tishkoff

The final stages of a construction project, often referred to as project closeouts, require meticulous attention to detail and compliance with various legal requirements. It is crucial to properly handle all remaining tasks, such as finalizing contracts, resolving disputes, ensuring payment, and addressing any outstanding legal issues. In this article, we will explore the role of a Michigan construction lawyer in facilitating smooth project closeouts and ensuring compliance with legal requiremen

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Unlock productivity with advanced generative AI

IBM Business Partners

AI and automation are driving business transformation by empowering individuals to do work without expert knowledge of business processes and applications. Whether it’s an employee who knows what they need but doesn’t know how to do it, a knowledge worker who knows how to do the task but needs help doing it more efficiently, or a customer who wants to resolve an issue but struggles with self-help tools, artificial intelligence (AI) unlocks new levels of productivity by empowering ind

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Optiv Earns Frost & Sullivan Award on Strength of Comprehensive Managed and Professional Security Services

Frost & Sullivan

SAN ANTONIO, TX. – May 18, 2023 – Recently, Frost & Sullivan assessed the managed and professional security services industry and, based on its findings, recognized Optiv with the 2023 Americas MSS & PSS Competitive Strategy Leadership Award. The company has carved out a significant portion of the highly competitive market by delivering end-to-end, comprehensive security and support.