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What to do if your partner has no budget

Stellar Partnerships

The Royal Family aren’t short of a dollar or two. It must be nice to have the crown jewels in storage for a rainy day. But the Royals are well known for some frugal habits such as re-using gift wrap, keeping outfits for decades and turning the lights off in unused rooms. Probably a sizeable contribution to climate change adaptation when your house has 700+ rooms.

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The Essential Guide to Building a Recurring Revenue Partner Program

PLM Alliances

Recurring revenue models have become a key business strategy for many companies seeking to establish predictable, long-term income streams. A critical component of this approach is developing a robust partner program that fosters collaboration, incentivizes growth, and creates lasting, mutually beneficial relationships. This in-depth guide will examine the essential elements of a successful recurring revenue model partner program and explore how to attract, motivate, and retain valuable partners

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A partnership perspective on government cloud security

IBM Business Partners

One of the most distinguishing things about our federal government is its broad scope of services. No other institution is responsible for doing so much for so many, so quickly, in an ever-changing landscape. No other institution must respond simultaneously to such a breadth of challenges that have only been amplified over the last few years. In response to the COVID-19 crisis, many federal agencies kicked their digital transformations into high gear to help enhance public services, embrace a re

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Boost Growth with Aligned Sales, Marketing, and Business Units

PLM Alliances

Introduction In today's dynamic business environment, aligning sales, marketing, and business units is critical for driving growth and success, especially for B2B marketers. This sales, marketing, and business unit alignment helps create a cohesive revenue-generating strategy. In this updated article, we will discuss the importance of this alignment for leaders in marketing and product management within the B2B market.

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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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Channel Management: A Guide to Optimizing Your Channel Strategy

PLM Alliances

Introduction Effective channel management is essential for companies looking to expand their market reach and drive revenue growth in today's competitive business landscape. This comprehensive guide will give you an in-depth understanding of channel management, its core disciplines, and best practices. We'll explore various subtopics, including channel strategy development, partner recruitment, and onboarding, channel sales performance optimization, and more.

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ISO 20022: Are your payment systems ready?

IBM Business Partners

ISO 20022 is a global standard for financial messaging that aims to standardize electronic data interchange between financial institutions. It provides a structured way of exchanging data for financial transactions, including payments, securities and trade services. The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) developed the standard, which is being adopted by countries and financial institutions worldwide.

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A Force for Good: Meet Value Engineering & RFXIS Director Paula Lina

Planview Blog

It only takes a few minutes talking to Paula Lina to see her passion. Paula is Planview’s Director of Value Engineering & RFXIS and leads the Force for Good initiative. With nearly two decades at Planview, Paula is passionate about the company, its people, and its impact for good. Let’s get to know Paula Lina. Explain your role at Planview and a few of your responsibilities.

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Tackle unites cloud co-sell, buyer intent data, and Cloud Marketplace solutions together to create the industry’s first end-to-end Cloud GTM Platform purpose-built for ISVs

Tackle.io

BOISE, Idaho — April 17, 2023 — Tackle.io , the leading software company dedicated to helping ISVs generate revenue through the clouds, today introduced the Cloud GTM Platform , the only end-to-end solution for selling B2B software through the Cloud Marketplaces. As a result, ISVs now have access to a single platform with cloud buyer intent data, cloud co-sell automation, and full-service Marketplace capabilities that work seamlessly together to streamline workflows and enable sellers to op

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How to Select Suppliers for Your Business | CenterPoint Group

CenterPoint Group

Effective supplier selection plays a critical role in business growth and development. Working with the right suppliers ensures timely product and service delivery and compliance with industry standards. Conversely, the wrong supplier can negatively affect the quality of your company's deliverables and may even hurt its reputation. Given how much is at stake, it’s not surprising that 31% of procurement professionals consider supplier selection the most challenging part of their job.

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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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IBM and Texas A&M AgriLife provide data, technology and expertise to farmers in need

IBM Business Partners

In Texas, 2022 was one of the driest years on record. With failed crops, low yields for farmers and diminished grazing for cattle, the Texas Department of Agriculture identified climate change as a potential threat to the state’s food supply. Smallholder farmers, particularly those in arid and drought-prone regions, struggle to manage their farms because they lack access to guidance on how much water to use for specific crops to ensure a good yield. “We’re in hills, so some are

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MSPs Will Benefit from Upskilling in Sustainable Procurement

Channel Insider

As one of the more significant sources of an enterprise’s carbon footprint, IT will come under increased scrutiny as pressure to deliver sustainability mounts. MSPs need to be able to account for the footprints of their suppliers and services when tendering and engaging with their customers. It’s important they understand that not all approaches to sustainability are equal.

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Wavelengths, the Right Choice for a High-bandwidth Connectivity Solution

Frost & Sullivan

More than ever, the network serves as the key pillar supporting businesses’ digital transformation. High-capacity solutions empower winning IT strategies, that in turn enable the three key metrics used to define a successful digital transformation approach: customer satisfaction rates, increase in revenues, and cost savings. Governmental, commercial, and retail organizations all have growing bandwidth requirements.

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Modern Marketing Essentials: A Comprehensive Guide

PLM Alliances

In today's fast-paced and ever-evolving digital landscape, mastering modern marketing is essential for businesses to drive growth and stay ahead of the competition. This guide delves into the key components of modern marketing, including strategic marketing blueprints, data-driven marketing insights, digital marketing accelerators, customer experience enhancers, and more.

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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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How a water technology company overcame massive data problems with ActionKPI and IBM

IBM Business Partners

Access to clean water is essential for the survival and growth of humans, animals and crops. Water technology companies worldwide provide innovative solutions to supply, conserve and protect water throughout the highly complex and technical water cycle of collection, treatment, distribution, reuse and disposal. After a series of international acquisitions, a leading water technology company formed an Assessment Services division to provide water infrastructure services to their customers.

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Scaling Channel through the Clouds: How Tackle Worked with AWS Marketplace to Drive 300+ CPPO Offers in Four Months

Tackle.io

Many ISVs are extending their reach into new territories, customer segments, and regions by establishing channel partner reseller relationships with large traditional resellers, global systems integrators, and smaller SI firms. ISVs are also incorporating their products into professional services offerings and bundled cloud solutions provided by managed services firms.

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Digitalization and Remote Measurement in the Water Management Market in Latin America as a Key Growth Opportunity to Improve Services

Frost & Sullivan

The digitization of water management is an increasingly large sector, and this growth is also noticeable in Latin America. With water utilities seeking to improve their service levels and reduce their levels of water losses and non-revenue water, incorporating digital solutions appears as an opportunity to accelerate this change process. With increasing pressure from the regional and global context focusing more and more on green policies, the commitments of companies to bind and report accordin

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Precision Marketing: Driving B2B Success with Data, Tools & Strategies

PLM Alliances

In today's highly competitive business environment, precision marketing has become more important than ever before. With the rise of digital marketing channels, companies have access to unprecedented customer data, empowering marketers to reach the right people with the right message at the right time. By leveraging the right tools, technology, and strategies, businesses can enhance their precision marketing efforts, build stronger relationships with key partners, and drive better results from t

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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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How IBM is innovating for a more sustainable future

IBM Business Partners

Over the past few years, sustainability pledges have emerged from nearly every major company. IBM® has had a bit of a head start: we’ve been focused on environmental conservation and sustainability for more than 50 years , operating our business pursuant to environmental leadership and minimizing our impact on the planet’s precious ecosystems.

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Scaling Channel through the Clouds: How Tackle Worked with AWS Marketplace to Drive 300+ CPPO Offers in Four Months

Tackle.io

Many ISVs are extending their reach into new territories, customer segments, and regions by establishing channel partner reseller relationships with large traditional resellers, global systems integrators, and smaller SI firms. ISVs are also incorporating their products into professional services offerings and bundled cloud solutions provided by managed services firms.

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Teleperformance Operations in Brazil Recognized by Frost & Sullivan for Delivering Outstanding Customer Support, Modern Business Optimization, and Transformation Strategies

Frost & Sullivan

San Antonio, TX — April 19, 2023 — Frost & Sullivan recently researched the customer experience outsourcing services industry and, based on its findings, recognizes Teleperformance with the 2023 Brazilian Customer Value Leadership Award. Teleperformance operations in Brazil provides digitally integrated business services and is widely recognized for its high customer support and satisfaction standards based on its customer-centric approach.

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Harness Content Marketing & Omnichannel Excellence for Growth & Success

PLM Alliances

In today's digital marketing landscape, businesses must adapt their strategies to stay ahead. One key element in achieving this is the combination of content marketing and omnichannel excellence. This article will delve into the importance of this powerful duo, outline how to build a robust marketing strategy, and explore the expected business impact.

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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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The CFO: at the forefront of innovation

IBM Business Partners

Historically, the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) role had been strictly focused on accounting for financial information. These days, there’s a need — and even some pressure — for CFOs to evolve their scope and influence the innovation agenda within their enterprises. For starters, they can help prioritize and invest in it. It’s the season for the strategic and innovative CFO.

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What is a Derivative Action Filed on Behalf of a Business Entity?

Tishkoff

A derivative action, also known as a derivative lawsuit, is a legal claim filed on behalf of a business entity by one or more of its shareholders or members against a third party who has caused harm to the entity. This type of lawsuit is unique in that it seeks to recover damages or other relief on behalf of the entity itself, rather than on behalf of the individual shareholders or members.

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Centric Software Awarded by Frost & Sullivan for Delivering Out-of-the-box Solutions that Optimize Its Customers’ Business Performance

Frost & Sullivan

San Antonio, TX – April 19, 2023 – Frost & Sullivan recently researched the fashion, retail, and consumer goods product lifecycle management (PLM) industry and, based on its findings, recognizes Centric Software with the 2023 Global Customer Value Leadership Award. Centric Software is a fast-moving company in the PLM industry for the fashion, retail, and consumer goods sectors.

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Mastering Customer Experience Management

PLM Alliances

The customer experience (CX) management is essential for businesses striving to stay competitive in today's rapidly evolving B2B landscape. Mastering customer experience management can increase customer satisfaction, loyalty, and revenue growth. This comprehensive guide will explore the importance of customer experience in B2B marketing and product management, discuss best practices for creating and managing CX initiatives, and delve into the latest trends and technologies shaping the industry.

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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 deep industry expertise enables breakthrough technology for today’s complex business needs

IBM Business Partners

The last decade has seen an unparalleled level of digital transformation, which soared to even greater heights during the last three years. Across industries, the exponential growth of technologies such as hybrid cloud, data and analytics, AI and IoT have reshaped the way businesses operate and heightened customer expectations. Businesses are now entering an even greater digital era marked by broader applications of AI, including generative AI models.

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Washington DC Expert Panel: Welcoming Dana Lariviere to Discuss Recovery Friendly Workplace Initiatives

Chameleon Sales

The effects of the opioid crisis in the workplace are still a constant burden in today’s workplace and governments, professional institutions and businesses alike agree that they need to be addressed. Untreated addiction costs New Hampshire’s economy $2.36 Billion. 66% of that cost ($1.5 Billion) is incurred by businesses in the form of impaired productivity and absenteeism.

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What matters most to Conner Hennessey? The impact his work has on colleagues and clients alike.

Market Source Inc

Conner is a firm believer in the fact that the time and effort spent investing in others benefits the individuals you help and contributes to the growth of the team as a whole. The post What matters most to Conner Hennessey? The impact his work has on colleagues and clients alike. appeared first on MarketSource.

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