Infogroup CMO Tony Marlow has some advice for his peers: the only way to effectively target B2B audiences is to mirror the seamless, personalized shopping experiences that consumers have grown to crave. A provider of data, analytics and marketing services based in Papillon, Nebraska, Infogroup announced the hiring of Marlow as well as four other […]
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How natural language processing can help marketers hear the voice of the customer
The Six Sigma methodology of improving processes includes, as a first step, capturing the voice of the customer (VOC) and using it as a guideline to provide the best experience and quality. The VOC is essential since it includes both stated and implied requirements. It varies continuously and requires frequent updating. With the rise of […]
Samsung data science director shows off the prescriptive engine that’s dramatically boosting its KPIs
Companies need to move past using analytics and artificial intelligence to merely inform business decisions and allow the technologies to actually make decisions on their own across all functional areas, according to the director of data science at Samsung. In his keynote at the Big Data Toronto conference on Tuesday, Matthew Fitz suggested enterprises are […]
Next Pathway says it can fast-track the process of preparing business data for analytics and AI applications
A firm called Next Pathway is offering marketers, sales leaders and other business a short cut to taking advantage of big data and artificial intelligence by alleviating the manual and onerous process of having developers create code to meet their requirements. Headquartered in Toronto and with a recent sales office opened in New York, Next […]
Datametrex: Big data meets conversational intelligence
We get to do some pretty cool stuff at B2B News Network, like have a real life conversation with an astrophysicist about conversational intelligence. Claude Théoret from Nexalogy, joined Jen Evans from B2B News Network for a Twitter chat about their product, client work, and being acquired by Datametrex (DM.V). You and I met […]
5 eCommerce Lessons Learned From 2 Failed Startups
Opening a shop is easy but keeping it open is hard. If you’re an entrepreneur you can relate to my situation. I was about to lose all hope. My second venture failed massively. Sometimes, failure gives us a new perspective. And that is what got me going on my third venture. I sat down in […]
Organizing and Setting Up Big Data for Better Results
Information is dominating all facets of life today making it imperative for companies to understand and use relative information in their operations. It is a straightforward concept, and you should achieve it for your small or midsize company at a fair budget. However, the internet has created a platform where information is both accessed and […]
Why Big Data Must Be Used in B2B Negotiation
Negotiating a B2B deal requires patience. A B2B relationship can be nurtured over the course of weeks, months or even years before the negotiating parties put ink to a contract. As the principal parties get to know each other, business relationships become quite personal. The logical and pragmatic considerations of business blend with the emotional […]
SAP Promises to Accelerate Innovation with Leonardo Service Packages
SAP is following up the launch of a digital innovation system it calls Leonardo with a set of services to help enterprises more quickly, and easily gain the benefits of the Internet of Things, blockchain and big data. The three SAP Leonardo Innovation Services launched at the company’s “Leonardo Live” event in Frankfurt includes an […]
Twitter Chat Recap: DX, Big Data, and Analytics With Alexey Rykhva
B2B News Network spoke with Alexey Rykhva, CIO of Procter & Gamble Canada, who took over the DXAgents Twitter profile. We asked his thoughts on digital transformation, change and big data, in a Twitter Chat yesterday, in advance of BigData Toronto. Alexey is originally from the Ukraine, and is a believer in business-centric IT, focused […]
Develop Smarter Data With Advanced Analytics
Advanced data analytics, like any other area with massive adoption, is undergoing significant developments and changes. We are going to look at the top trends in advanced analytics that define and shape industries. Increase Advanced Analytics Adoption According to the Big Data and Advanced Analytics Report by Dell, over 71 percent of companies use […]
The Big List of 2017 Marketing Conferences
Planning where to spend your conference budget next year? There may just be too many marketing conferences to attend all of them! Some of these require no introduction, but others may not even have been on your radar: Haste and Hustle Hosted by: Haste and Hustle Date: February 9-10 Location: Niagara Falls, ON A […]
B2B Trending Conversations: Big Data, LinkedIn Lead Gen, Emotion and B2B Buying
While much of the business world is reeling in the wake of Donald Trump’s election to the U.S. presidency, life — and business — goes on. And so we’re back again with another edition of B2B Trending Conversations, our weekly roundup of who’s talking and what’s trending in the B2B space. This week, we’ll compare inbound and […]
B2B Trending Conversations: The resource re-cap
The B2B landscape is vast and has seen massive changes over the past two years. Niche tools have seen entire industries move their processes to the cloud, big data developments and predictive analytics have enabled us to identify efficiencies, close money pits and to target specific audiences with incredible accuracy. Throughout all of these developments, […]
B2B Solution of the Week: How enterprises can monetize data
Running a B2B company has its challenges. Competition remains intense, profit margins are too thin and the top line has plateaued. How can B2B find secondary revenue sources? The answer could lie in part within business intelligence (BI) data monetization. “Data monetization is an increasingly popular trend among B2B enterprises,” says Ramon Chen, chief marketing […]
B2B Solution of the Week: Integrating predictive analytics with larger enterprise software
There’s a lot of talk lately about predictive analytics, and undoubtedly it is starting to infiltrate the B2B software industry. In the last year plus Salesforce.com acquired RelateIQ and LinkedIn bought out Fliptop, making meaningful progress in this space. But how will they implement predictive analytics solutions within their larger B2B cloud ecosystems? What approaches […]
Shining a light on predictive analytics in business marketing
Marketers are always looking for more efficient ways to drive sales and increase customer conversion, and one of the most rapidly advancing techniques they have access to is predicative analytics. It has been around for around 40 years, but now the technology is getting more mature today and companies have access to more data than ever […]
Twitter adds new analytics tool to help brands learn what users are saying about them
Twitter announced a new suite of analytics tools to helps advertisers “quickly understand their brand’s share of conversation, key audiences, and trends about their brand’s conversation,” as a blog post states. Brand Hub offers metrics that help marketers glean insights from real-time conversations about their firm. Today we’re excited to announce Twitter Brand Hub, the newest addition to […]
The top 10 Big Data influencers you need to follow on Twitter
We all know Big Data is well on its way to transforming the art of marketing into a science. But who are the analytics influencers on social media dishing out the insight and tips you’ll want to RT? We compiled a list of the top 10 must-follow Twitter profiles of those who lead the conversation on the […]
How to blend Big Data with agile marketing
Today’s marketers have access to a lot of data about their audience, everything from personal information, online shopping preferences, time spent on websites, the locations they’ve been to, where they work, and more. The information is being logged somewhere, by someone, and it’s all there for marketers to use. Yet with so much data available, […]