The acquisition of Foresee will allow Verint to extend its capabilities in offering voice of the customer (VOC) technology from its traditional foothold in areas like contact centres to a wide range of digital channels, according to its CMO. Melville, NY-based Verint announced its decision to acquire Foresee, based in Ann Arbor, Mich, on Monday. […]
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Automated Insights uses natural language generation to prove all that money spent on BI wasn’t wasted
It may have started out as a site offering Moneyball-style analytics for the college basketball crowd, but a firm called Automated Insights could become better known for using natural language generation as a way for enterprises to finally see greater value from business intelligence and data warehouse projects. Founded by a Cisco distinguished engineer and […]
CommercialTribe offers CT Coach to help B2B sales managers improve their reps’ performance
As B2B sales reps go through their annual performance reviews with managers, a startup called CommercialTribe has created a software-as-a-service tool that will grade them across 24 behaviors based on an analysis of more than 40,000 recorded sales interactions. Based in Denver, CommercialTribe formally launched CT Coach earlier this week, boasting HubSpot as an early […]
Questions B2B Companies Should Ask Before Moving to Cloud-Based Unified Communications
According to Gartner, there has been a 6.6% decline in premises-based revenue over the last five years. Rather than simply replacing aging premise-based phone systems with newer ones, B2B businesses have been steadily adopting unified communications (UC) and the migration to the cloud. These businesses are looking for mobility, flexibility and more efficient ways to […]
A B2B News Network Exclusive Series: Analyzing the Analysts
More than ever, B2B needs expert opinion and analysis. More than ever, “free” analysis in the form of thought leadership content marketing and corporate communications digitally proliferates. As technology becomes increasingly intricate and integral to business management, and billion dollar software decisions can make or break companies, experts with real experience, whose opinions can be […]
M&A Digest
A look at Mergers and Acquisitions in B2B this week… *** TD Securities completed the previously announced acquisition of Albert Fried & Company (AF&Co), which advances its U.S growth strategy. The purchase of AF&Co’s services and capabilities includes self-clearing, securities lending and a prime brokerage technology platform in its final stages of development. TD Securities plans to […]
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 […]
Top 3 at 3: Today’s Hot Topics
Public sector IT We all complain about waste in government, but we are also reluctant to spend on the big projects to make government work better. The time is now. Nowhere do we need efficiency more than in our public sector, and digital transformation efforts in the US and Canada have been half hearted and […]
Top 3 at 3 – Today’s Hot Topics
The Presidential Debate Is Trump the pro business candidate? Should anyone be looking at Trump as a viable candidate? Well, many are. CNN Reports Twitter + Microsoft Not in love with this engagement. Please call Marc Anddeessen just buy it and let it be what it is supposed to be, a postal service for people […]
Welcome to the era of CMO 2.0
Forget the marketers from Mad Men. Today’s generation of chief marketing officers (CMOs) face far bigger roles and much greater expectations, according to a new report from Deloitte entitled “CMO 2.0 takes charge – How chief marketing officers will succeed in the omnichannel era.” CMO 2.0: Challenge is Complex, Opportunity is Simple Businesses today are far […]