2016

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Payroll Service Bureaus – Are Clients a Flight Risk? [Infographic]

ExactHire - Partnership

Payroll service outsourcing is nothing new regardless of whether you look at large employers, or organizations that fall within the small- to medium-sized business (SMB) space. However, advances in other human resources-related technologies in recent years have, for the first time, enabled increasing numbers of smaller businesses to automate administrative tasks related to recruiting, employee onboarding, the Work Opportunity Tax Credit (WOTC), background checking and reference checking.

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Innovation for Innovators – Strategic Partners in Technology

Powerlinx

Technological Disruption – Important and Inevitable. The technology industry has always been defined by rapid innovation and technological disruption. Companies are always looking to disrupt the status quo with, “better service, more innovative products, lower prices, and the ability to respond flexibly to changing customer habits and preferences.

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Impartner Announces Impartner Locator on the Salesforce AppExchange

Impartner

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE. mpartner customers can now benefit from Impartner Locator’s deep searchability and visibility, simplifying the process of connecting potential customers to the best partner. SILICON SLOPES, UTAH — DECEMBER 15, 2016 — Impartner, a leader in Global Partner Relationship Management (PRM), today announced it has launched Impartner Locator for Salesforce Community Cloud on the Salesforce AppExchange, empowering businesses to connect with their customers, partners and empl

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Partnership on AI Expresses Support for White House Report on Artificial Intelligence (2016)

Partnership on AI

We are happy to see the report on the future of AI from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). We applaud the efforts by OSTP to organize workshops and to engage the public in discussions about AI. We agree that AI can be a major driver of growth and social progress. Harnessing advances in AI to their fullest potential will involve collaboration by industry, government, and the public on the broader social, legal, and ethical influences of AI.

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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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Four Ways to Improve Negotiations: Power in Numbers

Wharton

We often think of them in terms of governments and unions: small groups of sometimes unlikely partners join together as a coalition to exert bargaining power over a more formidable adversary. Politicians, laborers, and even college professors make headlines when they use coalitions effectively. But when it comes to corporate … Read More. The post Four Ways to Improve Negotiations: Power in Numbers appeared first on Wharton Executive Education.

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Payroll Providers, Distinguish Yourselves!

ExactHire - Partnership

For independent payroll providers it’s sometimes hard to stand out. Resources are limited and the expenses associated with advertising and expanding new services are prohibitive. For newly minted businesses, it might be all they can do just to get operations up and running efficiently. Meanwhile, very large and established providers (a.k.a. mega providers) are throwing big money into advertising and services in order to expand their market share.

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Independent Payroll Providers Under Attack!

ExactHire - Partnership

Payroll providers are under attack! Across the nation, over 240 independent payroll providers are under attack by “mega payroll providers.” Their mode of attack? They offer a slew of low-cost or “no-cost” add ons to their core services in a bid to persuade small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to contract with them. Seems benign enough, but the problem is that many of these add-ons are poor imitators of quality HR tech.

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How Can Payroll Service Providers Protect Market Share?

ExactHire - Partnership

If you’re a small- or mid-sized payroll service bureau, then you are under siege. It’s not a surprise assault, but rather a slow, stealthy adversary that creeps into your market, much like an ominous freighter on the sea’s horizon. You can see it coming, but have no control over its course and the subsequent impact on your own existence. In fact, your only hope is to proactively launch a counter attack and build up your own clients’ and prospects’ resistance to the wares it is peddling.

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Impartner Tackles ‘PRHD’

Impartner

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE. Channel Strategist Ian Hutchieson and Impartner CMO Dave R Taylor focus on driving channel engagement and loyalty in a new era of distraction and temptation. Webinar outlines 5 strategies Channel Chiefs must take to remain irresistible to top industry partners; references examples outside the channel that are setting the pace for ‘experience expectations’ SILICON SLOPES, UTAH — NOVEMBER 18, 2016 — Global Partner Relationship Management (PRM) SaaS leader Impart

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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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A10 Networks Extends its Salesforce CRM to the Channel with Impartner

Impartner

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE. Global leader in application networking and security turns to Impartner’s Partner Relationship Management solution to automate channel operations and drive channel growth. With Impartner PRM, A10 Networks’ channel teams use Salesforce interface to manage their indirect sales — without having to learn a new interface.

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Gartner Research Highlights Dramatic Surge in Growth of PRM Industry

Impartner

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE. Number of global partners signing into Impartner’s PRM solutions has accelerated 90 percent in one year, climbing past 2 million partners worldwide. Impartner sees its growth tracking with the Gartner Hype Cycle for CRM Sales, which projects PRM reaching main street adoption in less than two years and scores its benefit rating as ‘high’ SILICON SLOPES, UTAH — OCTOBER 28, 2016 — Global Partner Relationship Management (PRM) Leader Impartner today released

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Impartner Draws Two New Accolades

Impartner

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE. Company also shortlisted as Best Software as a Service by the V3 Technology Awards and Cloud Application/PaaS Solution of the Year in the Storage, Virtualisation, Cloud Awards. Awards mark 15th and 16th accolade Impartner’s flagship Partner Relationship Management Solution has received in 2016. SILICON SLOPES, UTAH — OCTOBER 12, 2016 — Global pure-play Partner Relationship Management (PRM) leader Impartner today announced two new accolades for the company’s fl

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Impartner Gives Channel Chiefs ‘X-ray’ Vision into Their Channel’s Performance

Impartner

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE. Fall ’16 release of Impartner’s award winning PRM software provides an incomparable level of insight into the performance of every aspect of a company’s channel program. Latest update also offers radically new consumerized interfaces 100 percent focused on increasing partner engagement and accelerating partner revenue.

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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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Industry Leaders Establish Partnership on AI Best Practices

Partnership on AI

Amazon, DeepMind/Google, Facebook, IBM, and Microsoft today announced that they will create a non-profit organization that will work to advance public understanding of artificial intelligence technologies (AI) and formulate best practices on the challenges and opportunities within the field. Academics, non-profits, and specialists in policy and ethics will be invited to join the Board of the organization, named the Partnership on Artificial Intelligence to Benefit People and Society (Partnership

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Introduction from the Founding Co-Chairs

Partnership on AI

We are at an inflection point in the development and application of AI technologies. The upswing in AI competencies, fueled by data, computation, and advances in algorithms for machine learning, perception, planning, and natural language, promise great value to people and society. However, with successes come new concerns and challenges based on the effects of those technologies on people’s lives.

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How to grow your business with Powerlinx

Powerlinx

4 ways to grow your business with Powerlinx. Powerlinx is constantly striving to be the world’s most advanced business matching platform and an invaluable resource to business development teams. 75% of CEOs say strategic partnerships are essential to their growth, but more than half report trouble finding and connecting with partners. The fact is, companies are missing out on new strategic partners because they lack the resources and networks of larger firms and we don’t believe that’s right.

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Impartner Receives $8 Million in Growth Capital

Impartner

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE. Strategic financing to further accelerate Impartner’s leadership in the partner relationship management market. SILICON SLOPES, UTAH — SEPTEMBER 22, 2016 — Global pure-play Partner Relationship Management (PRM) leader Impartner today announced that it has received $8 million in growth capital financing from ORIX Growth Capital, a leading growth finance company, and Silicon Valley Bank, the bank of the world’s most innovative companies and their investors.

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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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Impartner’s PRM Solution Helps LogRhythm Drive Partner Engagement

Impartner

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE. New video case study breaks down how Impartner PRM technology automates LogRhythm’s partner program, allowing its channel teams to focus on driving strategic relationships. SILICON SLOPES, UTAH — SEPTEMBER 21, 2016 — When LogRhythm, The Security Intelligence Company, launched a search for a new partner relationship management solution, it had a very specific list of requirements: drive engagement with its rapidly growing, global partner network; help educate and dri

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Opportunities for American Fashion & Textile Manufacturers

Powerlinx

Industry Overview. The Fashion & Apparel industry is one of the largest in the world. The industry generates over $3 trillion a year , and none of it would be possible without a robust textile and apparel manufacturing sector. In 2014, manufacturers created nearly $73 billion in revenue. Since the economic downturn of 2008, the clothing manufacturing sector has enjoyed a period of stability and growth.

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Impartner Named Among 50 Most Admired Companies of the Year

Impartner

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE. Global Pure-Play Partner Relationship Management leader recognized for superior business operations in addition to innovative technology. SILICON SLOPES, UTAH — SEPTEMBER 9, 2016 — Global pure-play Partner Relationship Management (PRM) leader Impartner today announced that The Silicon Review Magazine has named it among its 50 Most Admired Companies of the Year.

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Now is the time to enter the Beauty Industry

Powerlinx

The Appeal of Beauty. The cosmetic industry has long been associated with stability and growth, and for good reason. Time and again, the beauty industry has proven itself recession proof. When the rest of the economy floundered in 2009, the cosmetics industry grew 5.4%. The American market generated $56.2 billion in revenues last year, and is expected to grow in every sector.

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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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Impartner’s PRM Solution Helps BigCommerce Drive Partner Growth

Impartner

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE. In new video case study, BigCommerce channel chief says partners’ No. 1 need is to ‘be easily found:’ Impartner makes it easy for partners to merchandise themselves and drive leads. SILICON SLOPES, UTAH — AUGUST 30, 2016 — Ecommerce software leader BigCommerce helps merchants create online storefronts that are beautiful, compelling and convert customers to help them sell more.

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4 Reasons to Enter the Fashion & Apparel Industry

Powerlinx

Industry Size. The Fashion and Apparel Industry is a behemoth in the global economy. Making up 2% of all global GDP, clothing generates over three trillion dollars every year. The upsides for a successful clothing company are nothing short of massive. Approximately 80% of the industry is concentrated in the womenswear, menswear, and luxury goods segments.

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Impartner Webinar Reveals the Most Important Stat Channel Chiefs Will Hear

Impartner

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE. Webinar features Independent Research Principal Analyst Tim Harmon and Impartner CMO Dave R Taylor; Duo offer key insights on attracting the RIGHT partners and how to quickly and profitably scale channel programs and revenue. SILICON SLOPES, UTAH — AUGUST 26, 2016 — Like a needle scraping off a long-play record, global pure-play Partner Relationship Management (PRM) leader Impartner, today announced a new webinar featuring Tim Harmon, principal analyst with Forrester Rese

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Impartner Takes Bronze Medal in Best in Biz Awards

Impartner

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE. Leading Partner Relationship Management solution singled out for rapidly accelerating companies’ revenue through indirect channels. SILICON SLOPES, UTAH — AUGUST 24, 2016 — Global pure-play SaaS Partner Relationship Management (PRM) leader Impartner has been named a bronze winner in the Best New Product of the Year—Enterprise category in the Best in Biz Awards 2016 International.

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5 Essential Virtual Selling Practices Every Company Must Have by 2023

Speaker: Erika Bzdel - Vice President of Sales and Craig Simons - Director of Marketing

Virtual sales success requires new ways of thinking. Sales managers, trainers, sales enablement managers, and sales reps across all industries must adjust to this digital transformation. That doesn’t mean, however, that you can transfer the old ways of doing business to the new blended selling environment. You need to implement essential virtual selling processes or you will get left behind.

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Expanding Into an Uncertain Market

Powerlinx

The slowing down of China’s economy has sparked vigorous debate, with many experts predicting hard times ahead for the world’s second-biggest economy. Nevertheless, China still managed to achieve 6.9 percent GDP growth in 2015 – the slowest in 25 years, but still well ahead of other developed economies. And then there’s the recent announcement by Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz that his company will be opening thousands of stores across China over the next five years.

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How Collaboration Helps Save the Environment

Powerlinx

With the successful conclusion of the COP21 Paris Climate Conference in December 2015, collaboration around greenhouse gas emission reduction between governments and companies throughout the developing and developed world has moved from wishful thinking to fact. Limiting the pace of global warming to no more than two degrees Celsius is now a global movement that is driving companies of every size and description to reduce their annual carbon footprint.

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Impartner Wins Gold Stevie in 2016 International Business Awards

Impartner

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE. Top worldwide honor continues Impartner’s sweep of national and international awards for its core PRM solution, which can have companies up and running in as few as 30 days. SILICON SLOPES, UTAH — AUGUST 11, 2016 — Global pure-play SaaS Partner Relationship Management (PRM) leader Impartner won a Gold Stevie® Award in the Relationship Management Solution category in the 13th Annual International Business Awards?.