Buyers Guide

Master Data Management 2025 Buyers Guide Executive Summary

Posted by Matt Aslett on 19 September 2025

Executive Summary Master Data Management Despite efforts made by enterprises to be more data-driven, some of the most fundamental questions about an enterprise—such as how many customers it has—remain difficult to answer. Trust in data is foundational for an enterprise to make data-driven business decisions. The problem lies not just in being able to accurately count how many customers the... Read More

Topics: Master Data Management, Data Management, Artificial intelligence, Data Intelligence

Data Intelligence 2025 Buyers Guide Executive Summary

Posted by Matt Aslett on 19 September 2025

Executive Summary Data Intelligence Today’s enterprises seek to increase data-driven decision-making to gain competitive advantage and improve efficiency. It is ironic, however, that many enterprises lack information about when and how data is used in decision-making processes. The capabilities that provide enterprises with information about how data is generated and consumed across the... Read More

Topics: Data Management, Artificial intelligence, Data Intelligence

Data Governance 2025 Buyers Guide Executive Summary

Posted by Matt Aslett on 19 September 2025

Executive Summary Data Governance Data governance is integral to an overall data management strategy. Good data governance provides guardrails that enable enterprises to act quickly while protecting the business from risks related to regulatory requirements, data-quality issues and data-reliability concerns. It accelerates the delivery of analytics projects, providing the confidence required to... Read More

Topics: Data Governance, Data Management, Artificial intelligence, Data Intelligence

Data Quality 2025 Buyers Guide Executive Summary

Posted by Matt Aslett on 19 September 2025

Executive Summary Data Quality Maintaining data quality and trust is a perennial data-management challenge, often preventing enterprises from operating at the speed of business. As enterprises aspire to be more data-driven, trust in the data used to make decisions becomes more critical. Without data quality processes and tools, enterprises may make decisions based on old, incomplete, incorrect or... Read More

Topics: Data Quality, Data Management, Artificial intelligence, Data Intelligence

Data Management 2025 Buyers Guide Executive Summary

Posted by Matt Aslett on 19 September 2025

Executive Summary Data Management Data management combines functionality addressing data governance, data quality, master data management, data integration and data intelligence to ensure that the enterprise is collecting, storing and processing data in accordance with strategic goals and regulatory requirements. Data management has been a critical component of enterprise IT strategies for... Read More

Topics: Data Management, Artificial intelligence, Data Intelligence

Data Integration 2025 Buyers Guide Executive Summary

Posted by Matt Aslett on 19 September 2025

Executive Summary Data Integration Data integration is a fundamental enabler of a data management strategy. Analysis of individual data sources—such as customer or product data—can provide insights to improve operational efficiency. However, the combination of data from multiple sources enables enterprises to innovate, improving customer experience and revenue generation, for example, by... Read More

Topics: Data Integration, Data Management, Artificial intelligence, Data Intelligence

Record to Report 2025 Buyers Guide Executive Summary

Posted by Robert Kugel on 05 September 2025

Executive Summary Record to Report The six costliest words in managing a finance department are, “We’ve always done it this way.” The record-to-report (R2R) cycle describes the process of finalizing and summarizing financial activities of an enterprise for a specific accounting period—typically a month, quarter or fiscal year. It is important to note that R2R exclusively covers the activities... Read More

Topics: Office of Finance, Consolidate and Close Management, Business & Technologies, Record to Report

Financial Close 2025 Buyers Guide Executive Summary

Posted by Robert Kugel on 05 September 2025

Executive Summary Financial Close The financial records of an enterprise must be reviewed periodically and summarized to create financial statements that inform executives and interested third parties of the organization’s financial condition and performance. An enterprise’s financial close involves a set of repeated processes that must be performed in a prescribed order and fashion to maximize... Read More

Topics: Office of Finance, Financial Close, Business & Technologies, Record to Report

Financial Consolidation 2025 Buyers Guide Executive Summary

Posted by Robert Kugel on 05 September 2025

Executive Summary Financial Consolidation The financial records of an enterprise must be reviewed periodically and summarized to create financial statements that inform executives and interested third parties of the organization’s financial condition and performance. A consolidation of the financial records and other departmental close processes involves an intricate set of repeated processes... Read More

Topics: Office of Finance, Financial Consolidation and Close, Business & Technologies

Contact Centers for Retail 2025 Buyers Guide Executive Summary

Posted by Keith Dawson on 04 September 2025

Executive Summary Contact Centers for Retail Contact centers have remained largely unchanged for decades, but are now undergoing a drastic overhaul in operations, interaction mechanics and underlying technology architectures. This is proving disruptive to both technology buyers and sellers. The most immediate cause is the explosion of new tools derived from artificial intelligence (AI)... Read More

Topics: Customer Experience, Contact Center, Retail, Business-focused Software and Services, Customers and CX - Business & Technologies