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Remote and hybrid work environments are prevailing in enterprises, regardless of size. The pandemic caused long-lasting disruption in traditional business operations, requiring organizations to rethink digital communication inside and outside the workplace. The expectation today is that a digital communications platform will meet the unique needs of an organization. Teams must be equipped with cloud-based technology that is easily accessible and enables business communication, such as chat with...
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Digital Business,
Digital Communications
Marketing and Customer Experience (CX) are typically treated as separate business functions or, in some cases, poorly connected. But there is a growing effort to (effectively) conjoin these areas as organizations are discovering that these departments and processes are more successful if they work together to facilitate/promote a unified approach to the customer life cycle.
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Topics:
Customer Experience,
Marketing,
Digital Marketing,
intelligent marketing,
Customer Experience Management,
Digital Experience Platform
With the increasing exodus from on-premises solutions, organizations are migrating towards cloud computing for data analytics. Cloud computing supports rapid growth, collaborative analysis and real-time insights without requiring large capital investments in IT infrastructure. A cloud-based approach to analytics can help organizations be more agile and responsive to opportunities in the market.
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Topics:
cloud analytics,
Analytics,
Business Intelligence,
AI and Machine Learning
Organizations that use technology for work management have a competitive advantage over those without collaborative, digital systems. However, existing work management technology may not be sufficient to keep up with the rate of digital work that is being performed.
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Topics:
Project Management,
Work Management,
Digital Business,
task management
Data lakes began to emerge 10 years ago in response to the desire for analytic data platforms that could economically store and process large volumes of raw data. These platforms access data from multiple operational applications in a variety of formats to be queried by multiple business departments for a variety of analytic workloads.
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Topics:
business intelligence,
Cloud Computing,
Data Governance,
Data Management,
analytic data platforms,
Analytics and Data,
AI and Machine Learning
The annual Ventana Research Digital Innovation Awards showcase advances in the productivity and potential of business applications as well as technology that contributes significantly to the improved processes and performance of an organization. Our goal is to recognize technology and vendors that have introduced noteworthy digital innovations to advance business and IT.
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Topics:
Digital Innovation Awards,
sales engagement,
Office of Revenue
The annual Ventana Research Digital Innovation Awards showcase advances in the productivity and potential of business applications as well as technology that contributes significantly to the improved processes and performance of an organization. Our goal is to recognize technology and vendors that have introduced noteworthy digital innovations to advance business and IT that optimizes organizational resilience and workforce readiness.
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Topics:
Human Capital Management,
Total Compensation Management,
Digital Innovation Awards
The annual Ventana Research Digital Innovation Awards showcase advances in the productivity and potential of business applications as well as technology that contributes significantly to the improved processes and performance of an organization. Our goal is to recognize technology and vendors that have introduced noteworthy digital innovations to advance business and IT that optimizes organizational resilience and workforce readiness.
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Topics:
Office of Finance,
Financial Performance Management,
ERP and Continuous Accounting,
Digital Innovation Awards,
profitability management
The annual Ventana Research Digital Innovation Awards showcase advances in the productivity and potential of business applications as well as technology that contributes significantly to the improved processes and performance of an organization. Our goal is to recognize technology and vendors that have introduced noteworthy digital innovations to advance business and IT that optimizes organizational resilience and workforce readiness.
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Topics:
Cloud Computing,
Internet of Things,
Digital Technology,
blockchain,
mobile computing,
extended reality,
Digital Innovation Awards,
robotic automation,
Collaborative & Conversational Computing,
Analytics and Data,
AI and Machine Learning
The annual Ventana Research Digital Innovation Awards showcase advances in the productivity and potential of business applications as well as technology that contributes significantly to the improved processes and performance of an organization. Our goal is to recognize technology and vendors that have introduced noteworthy digital innovations to advance business and IT that optimize organizational resilience and workforce readiness.
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Topics:
Continuous Planning,
Operations & Supply Chain,
Enterprise Resource Planning,
Digital Innovation Awards
The annual Ventana Research Digital Innovation Awards showcase advances in the productivity and potential of business applications as well as technology that contributes significantly to the improved processes and performance of an organization. Our goal is to recognize technology and vendors that have introduced noteworthy digital innovations to advance business and IT that optimizes organizational resilience and workforce readiness.
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Topics:
Marketing,
Digital Marketing,
intelligent marketing,
Digital Innovation Awards,
Customer Experience Management
The annual Ventana Research Digital Innovation Awards showcase advances in the productivity and potential of business applications as well as technology that contributes significantly to the improved processes and performance of an organization. Our goal is to recognize technology and vendors that have introduced noteworthy digital innovations to advance business and IT that optimizes organizational resilience and workforce readiness.
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Topics:
Performance Management,
Business Continuity,
Digital Innovation Awards,
Work Management,
Digital Business,
Governance & Risk
The annual Ventana Research Digital Innovation Awards showcase advances in the productivity and potential of business applications as well as technology that contributes significantly to the improved processes and performance of an organization. Our goal is to recognize technology and vendors that have introduced noteworthy digital innovations to advance business and IT that optimizes organizational resilience and workforce readiness.
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Topics:
Cloud Computing,
Data,
operational data plaftforms,
Analytics and Data
The annual Ventana Research Digital Innovation Awards showcase advances in the productivity and potential of business applications as well as technology that contributes significantly to the improved processes and performance of an organization. Our goal is to recognize technology and vendors that have introduced noteworthy digital innovations to advance business and IT that optimizes organizational resilience and workforce readiness.
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Topics:
Customer Experience,
Contact Center,
Customer Experience Management,
customer service and support
The annual Ventana Research Digital Innovation Awards showcase advances in the productivity and potential of business applications as well as technology that contributes significantly to the improved processes and performance of an organization. Our goal is to recognize technology and vendors that have introduced noteworthy digital innovations to advance business and IT that optimizes organizational resilience and workforce readiness.
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Topics:
business intelligence,
Analytics,
Digital Technology,
Digital Innovation Awards,
Analytics and Data
The annual Ventana Research Digital Innovation Awards showcase advances in the productivity and potential of business applications as well as technology that contributes significantly to the improved processes and performance of an organization. Our goal is to recognize technology and vendors that have introduced noteworthy digital innovations to advance business and IT that optimizes organizational resilience and workforce readiness.
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Topics:
Human Capital Management,
Digital Technology,
Digital Innovation Awards,
Digital Business
A productive and engaged workforce is fundamental to many successful enterprises/organizations. But the pandemic has created unique challenges to “business as usual” and has transformed the employee experience across nearly all aspects. This transformation is an opportunity for organizations to reinvent their workplace, especially in consideration of remote personnel who may be spread across all regions of the globe but still need to feel connected and work efficiently. One key to providing a...
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Topics:
Human Capital Management,
Learning Management,
Talent Management,
Workforce Management,
Payroll Management,
Total Compensation Management,
employee experience,
Continuous Payroll
Organizations face a variety of data and analytics challenges resulting from growth and increased scale. Multiple tools and techniques are needed to derive value from various databases. But, adding more systems means adding more complexities, which can slow operations and add costs for maintaining additional systems. SQL databases have been very popular among organizations for storing and managing data. These databases enable workers to manage and analyze massive volumes of data quickly and...
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Topics:
business intelligence,
Data Management,
analytic data platforms,
AI and Machine Learning
In the present-day market where the gap between consumers and the vendors they engage is shrinking, an organization’s ability to deliver a personalized customer experience is more important than ever. Consumers expect interactions that are intuitive, agile and accessible across a wide variety of channels. Ensuring an experience that exceeds expectation and creates an environment that is relational rather than transactional, however, is becoming increasingly challenging.
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Topics:
Contact Center,
Customer Experience Management,
customer service and support
Improving the quality of information is cited by organizations as the leading benefit of data preparation activities. Data quality efforts are focused on clean data, but increasingly, the importance of bad data is also recognized. To be more accurate, the original data as recorded by an organization’s various devices and systems is important. To fully perform data preparation, organizations must know what data exists – both good and bad.
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Topics:
Data Governance,
Data Management,
Data Preparation,
Data,
Data Pipeline