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The continuous pressure on sales to outperform cannot be addressed successfully without strategic investments into the people and processes that drive sales forward. What’s required are effective methods to manage sales performance ranging from coaching and compensation management to the optimization of quotas and pipelines. In today’s competitive environment attempting to execute sales force automation using spreadsheets and email rather than dedicated, purpose-built applications is a doomed undertaking. The path to maximization of your organization’s revenue potential starts with a close evaluation of dedicated applications that help with continuous improvement in areas like product information management, planning and analytics, direct digital commerce, recurring revenue, indirect selling and the use of channel data.

Ventana Research offers knowledgeable, research-based guidance on sales to help you build core competencies that will increase your organization’s potential for revenue. To attain excellence in sales it is critical to evaluate investments based on their potential to augment rather than detract from sales processes and to deliver excellence in sales. We can help.

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By 2023, one-quarter of sales organizations will replace applications with more intelligent ones that focus on optimizing sales performance to guide sales organizations for maximum outcomes.

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Best Practices for Building a Business Case for Product Information Management 2015

Recent research shows that over half of organizations (57%) are re-assessing how to manage information associated with products. With 48 percent of organizations utilizing line of business IT budgets to fund PIM projects;

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Value Index
Business Planning 2015

Planning is a key component to all businesses, but often, the reality does not go according to plans. In businesses, this discrepancy can increase costs and waste time. But with the right tools, organizations can more closely align their plans to th

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Infographic
Connecting Product Information Management

Effective product information management is a high priority for most organizations today. And most lack a dedicated approach to PIM. Those that do not invest and improve will fall behind. It�s no wonder why. Research shows that PIM can improve effic

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Research Perspective
Developing Best Practices in Sales Forecasting

"The purpose of sales forecasting is to anticipate and facilitate sales activities and help representatives identify opportunities, reach quotas and achieve the maximum potential of their accounts and territories. We find that sales forecasting is o

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White Paper
Enhancing Global Channel Visibility

"Over the past decade, markets have grown increasingly global, especially for technology companies. Rising incomes in underdeveloped countries have led to increased demand for a wide range of products. However, this opportunity also brings with it a

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Research Perspective
Five Best Practices for Optimizing Sales Analytics and Forecasting

"Benchmark research that Ventana Research conducted on sales performance management reveals that the top two priorities of sales management are to increase revenue (cited by 72% of participants) and to improve the efficiency of sales processes (57%)

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Research Perspective
Five Best Practices for Sales Planning

"Launching and running a sales program without careful planning is a recipe for failure. Effectiveness in sales starts with planning. To be successful, planning must involve a range of stakeholders from various roles, use a systematic process, incor

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Webinar
Five Best Practices in Territory Management

Fully realizing the revenue potential of a sales organization requires effective territory management. Ideally, territories should be optimized to create the right combinations of customers, products and salespeople to maximize sales results, and co

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White Paper
Five Risks of Ignoring Sales Performance Management

"Optimizing the potential of a sales organization requires being able to motivate representatives with appealing incentives and a clear compensation structure. Determining these can no longer be a once-a-year effort because today�s dynamic business

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eBook
Mastering Product Information is Everyone's Business

Product Information Management (PIM) is essential to business processes, the customer experience, and ultimately financial performance. It is shared among business units, customers, partners and distributors and may take many forms, including text,

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Webinar
Mastering Product Information is Everyone's Business

Effective product information management is a high priority for most organizations today. And most lack a dedicated approach to PIM. Those that do not invest and improve will fall behind. It�s no wonder why. Research shows that PIM can improve effic

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Executive Summary
Next-Generation Business Planning 2015

Today, budgeting and operational planning effrots are typically only loosely connected. In contrast, Next-Generation Business Planning closely integrates unit-level operational plans with financial planning. Relying on information technology, it ena

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Best Practices
Next-Generation Business Planning 2015

Next-generation business planning closely integrates individual operational plans with financial plans. Supported by dedicated software, it enables companies to plan faster with less effort to achieve greater accuracy and agility.,,,,,,,

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Webinar
Next-Generation Business Planning 2015

Business planning encompasses all of the forward-looking activities in which companies routinely engage, such as sales, production and head-count planning as well as budgeting. Among the several benefits it conveys, planning helps to get everyone on

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White Paper - VOD
Next Generation Business Planning 2015

Ventana Research undertook this Benchmark Research into the Next Generation of Business Planning to examine systems and tools that operate across business processes, influencing the optimal use of information and technology to manage performance. Th

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White Paper - VOD
Next-Generation Sales Analytics 2015

Effective analytics enables businesses to understand the data they�re collecting in greater volumes and more forms than ever before. The situation has special importance for sales organizations. Applied to data created and needed by sales organizati

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White Paper - VOD
Planning and Budgeting 2008

Budgeting and planning is an area of finance that is long-established yet ripe for change. There is widespread dissatisfaction with the budgeting process. Nearly all business people regard it as a waste of time and resources. Typically, it eats up 1

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Executive Summary
Product and Service Analytics 2011

Nearly two-thirds said it is very important to make it simpler to provide analytics and metrics, and half said they can significantly improve their use of them. In addition, half are not satisfied with the process currently used to create analytics,

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Executive Summary
Product Information Management 2015

Organizations need to address limitations in the ways they manage product information, including related attributes and content that describes the products. New types and sources of data often introduce new and inconsistent ways in which products, m

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Value Index
Product Information Management 2015

In the information age, access is key for organizations. This is especially true for product information, where multiple areas in a business need to be able to access the same information, and have it always be up-to-date. And as the number of ways

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Research Perspective
Product Information Management in an Master Data Management World

"Consistent, accurate product information is essential to meet the expectations of today�s customers. These demanding consumers want detailed information presented to them through whichever of the various channels, including websites and commerce sy

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Executive Summary
Recurring Revenue 2015

The term "recurring revenue" refers to models for selling and billing typically based on a combination of initial fees and periodic charges. In recent years, it has gained popularity in a variety of industries.,,,,,,,

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Best Practices
Recurring Revenue 2015

The term "recurring revenue" refers to models for selling and billing typically based on a combination of initial fees and periodic charges. In recent years, it has gained popularity in a variety of industries.,,,,,,,

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Recurring Revenue 2015

The term "recurring revenue" refers to models for selling and billing typically based on a combination of initial fees and periodic charges. In recent years, it has gained popularity in a variety of industries.,,,,,,,

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White Paper - VOD
Recurring Revenue 2015

Ventana Research undertook this first independent, rigorous primary research in Recurring Revenue makes clear that organizations increasingly are choosing to adopt this model to increase revenue and improve their customers� experience. Pioneered by

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Executive Summary
Sales Analytics 2011

There isn't an aspect of business today in which people don't claim they use analytics to generate information, typically in the form of metrics and key indicators. But there is much confusion about their usefulness and value to the business and sal

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White Paper - VOD
Sales Analytics 2012

There isn't an aspect of business today in which people don't claim they use analytics to generate information, typically in the form of metrics and key indicators. But there is much confusion about their usefulness and value to the business and sal

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White Paper - VOD
Sales Compensation Management

To maximize their effectiveness across the enterprise, from top management through finance and operations to the sales representatives on the front line, sales organizations must integrate their people and processes tightly with all available inform

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Executive Summary
Sales Compensation Management 2014

To maximize their effectiveness across the enterprise, from top management through finance and operations to the sales representatives on the front line, sales organizations must integrate their people and processes tightly with all available inform

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eBook
Sales Performance Management: A Buyer's Guide

The success of sales efforts depends on the performance of the sales team as a whole and each of its members. But sales performance cannot be a matter of guesswork or ad hoc projections; it must be measured.,,,,,,,,

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Company Profile
Sales Planning Improves Sales Performance Management

"Success in business is measured by what�s accomplished, and effective planning improves an organization�s ability to consistently achieve its objectives. When it comes to Sales, many organizations are slow to recognize how ineffectual their sales p

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Viewpoint
Streamlining Finance Processes for Subscription Billing

The subscription business model has grown in popularity with providers of services or products because it establishes a regular, predictable income stream. This is particularly true for technology companies. However, the subscription model poses cha

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eBook
Successful Enterprises Use Performance Management

Product Information Management (PIM) is essential to business processes, the customer experience, and ultimately financial performance. It is shared among business units, customers, partners and distributors and may take many forms, including text,

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eBook
Supercharging Sales Performance

Product Information Management (PIM) is essential to business processes, the customer experience, and ultimately financial performance. It is shared among business units, customers, partners and distributors and may take many forms, including text,

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eBook
The Business of Sales Forecasting

Sales forecasting has been an inexact science, often depending as much on gut instinct as on data. Two reasons for this imprecision are a lack of pipeline information and a reliance on spreadsheets to create and track forecasts. The alternatives, sa

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Research Perspective
The Digital Transformation of Planning and Budgeting

�'Digital transformation' is a popular term that encompasses a range of fundamental changes caused or catalyzed by modern information technology. The internet and intelligent mobile devices have changed how people live, work, shop and communicate. W

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Presentation - VOD
Trends in Product Information Management 2012

Organizations need to address limitations in the ways they manage product information, including related attributes and content that describes the products. New types and sources of data often introduce new and inconsistent ways in which products, m

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Company Profile
Using Playbooks to Maximize Sales Performance

"To improve their sales effectiveness, many representatives need guidance in how to shorten the sales cycle, close deals and better execute all aspects of the process. Working independently and often without central mandates or guidance, reps may de

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Research Perspective
Managing Sales Performance in Smaller Organizations

Sales organizations, especially in small businesses, are under pressure to take advantage of every revenue-generating opportunity. Feeling they have to move fast, sales management personnel sometimes don’t conduct regular

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Self-Assessment
Sales Analytics

Sales analytics is essential to managing and planning for better sales performance. In fact, our research into sales organizations finds that sales analytics effectiveness is a key indicator to plan for optimal sales performance and maximize the pote

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Webinar
The Future of AI and Predictive Sales: New technology can digitally transform sales and boost your revenue potential

Pity the poor sales organization! – always being called on to generate revenue but rarely receiving the level of investment it needs to be able to work smarter and more effectively. Sales force automation and the more recent promise of CRM have falle

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Research Perspective
PIM Trump MDM

Ventana Research defines product information management (PIM) as the practice of using information, applications and technology to effectively support product-related processes across an organization. When PIM is deployed, it employs a wide range of

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White Paper
Building High-Quality and Complete Product Information

Product information management (PIM) landscape has changed drastically over the last few years, and many businesses are still trying to grapple with it.

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Research Perspective
Marketing Effectively with PIM

Marketing organizations have yet to grasp fully the value of managing product information efficiently across marketing for all business channels. Education on effective product information is critical; organizations must be able to use information to

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Webinar
Ensuring Effective Product Experiences with PIM

We are observing a radical change in consumer expectations about purchase-related product information. In this age of instant online response, consumer patience is in precipitous decline. This is forcing organizations to modernize their use of produc

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Webinar
Subscription Management in the Digital Economy

We are observing a radical change in expectations about subscriber relationships. Consumers today want simpler, more immediate and more effective interactions with the organizations that provide them with services. But delivering this by improving th

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Research Perspective
Embracing PIM as a Service

The software industry’s evolution toward cloud computing and software as a service (SaaS) has changed how and where organizations operate not just their software but their business. Almost every business application – across customer-facing functions

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White Paper
Structured CRM for Business Success

Today more than ever, organizations must prioritize customers and focus on both existing and new relationships in order to increase the value of the interactions with them. A spreading awareness of the importance of customer experiences and interacti

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Webinar
Digital Commerce: Innovating with AI and Robotics

The effectiveness of digital commerce is at risk today, with antiquated technology platforms eroding usability and making it difficult to focus on the customer and product experience. Advances in AI and machine learning have begun to deliver new meth

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Webinar
Meet the Robotic Generation of Sales Performance Management

Disparate applications and data sets create barriers with antiquated SFA make it difficult for Sales to know how it is performing and what it should be doing to improve performance. Now, though, a new generation of robotics- and AI-enabled sales perf

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Presentation - VOD
Forecast Accuracy

Sales forecast accuracy is especially challenging in business-to-business organizations, and is frequently cited as sales operations’ most important improvement priority. Even though many businesses know the importance of sales planning, often they s

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Research Perspective
Evaluation Criteria for Enterprise Geocoding

The process of geocoding increases the quality of business information by augmenting geographic references to fully support operations and decision-making. Without the dimension added by geocoding, operational risk increases, business cycles are wast

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White Paper
Calculating the Return on Better Planning

Realizing an appropriate return on capital spending is critical. Poor allocation of investment funds can impair the competitiveness and profitability of a corporation, which is why well-run organizations have a disciplined methodology for making thes

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White Paper
Five Ingredients for Next-Generation Business Planning

Companies do a lot of planning: They plan sales, determine what products and services they will offer, decide what they will charge and what these will cost. They plan the headcount they’ll need to run the business and how to organize distribution an

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eBook
Five Things Every CEO and CFO Must Know About Pricing

More effective management of pricing usually is the biggest profitability lever available to corporations. Yet, senior executives often cannot manage pricing effectively because they encounter five common obstacles. First, they lack visibility into a

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eBook
Building a Business Case for PIM

Providing the level of success your organization deserves across business requires accurate product information that is used consistently across all channels. Organizations must work to overcome common challenges to realize the benefits of investment

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Dynamic Insights
Sales and Operations Planning

Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP, sometimes called Integrated Business Planning) is a management discipline that enables executives to assess trade-offs between multiple interdependent business components: demand and supply market opportunities, c

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Self-Assessment
Guiding the Future of Product Information Management

PIM (Product Information Management) is a focus on managing product information so that it meets the overall needs of the organization and the extended enterprise, from the supply chain to commerce and customers. PIM is also a category of dedicated a

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Q&A
The Imperative for Sales Planning

Effective sales performance management requires the right planning environment, one that brings together organizational leadership and operations with sales managers and sales professionals so they can work together efficiently.

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Q&A
Accounting for Selling Costs Gets Complicated

The new revenue recognition standards (ASC 606 and IFRS 15) not only affect how recurring revenue is reported, but also how companies account for commissions and other selling costs for transactions covered by contracts that are in force for a year o

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Dynamic Insights
Sales Planning

Sales planning is essential to managing and improving sales performance. Without a planning process, sales metrics and key indicators will provide only historical context and not forward-looking visibility into your sales activities, impacting your a

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Presentation - VOD
Five Best Practices to Strengthen Sales Planning

Historically, sales planning has been a once-a-year exercise done manually using spreadsheets, lacking any ability to track assumptions or the success of the plan once done. However, without these critical and ongoing insights, organizations can’t ma

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Value Index
Sales Performance Management 2019

Ensuring that the sales organization contributes as fully as possible to the success of the organization — to revenue, growth, profitability and the overall customer experience — requires not only dedication but effective strategy and planning. A wel

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Research Perspective
Why Data-Driven Sales Leadership Matters

Now is the time for any organization that places a priority on improving sales performance to introduce or refresh data-driven optimizations within their sales processes. This includes planning processes, compensation strategies and resource allocati

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Analyst Perspective
The Revolution in Sales in 2020: Ventana Research Agenda

Ventana Research recently announced its 2020 research agenda for sales, continuing the guidance we’ve offered for nearly two decades to help organizations derive optimal value from business technology and improve outcomes.

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Analyst Perspective
The Business Continuity Imperative: The Selling Experience and Sales Performance Agenda

Sales plays a lead role in the revenue and growth of every organization.

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Analyst Perspective
Incentive Solutions Shows Potential in Sales Performance Management

Here are some insights on Incentive Solutions drawn from our latest Value Index research, which provides an analytic assessment of how well vendor offerings address buyers’ requirements.

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Analyst Perspective
NICE is a Leader in Reliability for Sales Performance Management

Here are some insights on NICE drawn from our latest Value Index research, which provides an analytic assessment of how well vendor offerings address buyers’ requirements.

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Analyst Perspective
beqom is a Value Index Leader for Manageability in Sales Performance Management

Here are some insights on beqom drawn from our latest Value Index research, which provides an analytic assessment of how well vendor offerings address buyers’ requirements.

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Analyst Perspective
SAP Provides Mature and Balanced Sales Performance Management Offering

Here are some insights on SAP drawn from our latest Value Index research, which provides an analytic assessment of how well vendor offerings address buyers’ requirements.

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Analyst Perspective
Optymyze Provides Robust Platform and Sales Performance Management Suite

Here are some insights on Optymyze drawn from our latest Value Index research, which provides an analytic assessment of how well vendor offerings address buyers’ requirements.

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Analyst Perspective
Anaplan is a Value Index Leader for Validation in Sales Performance Management

Here are some insights on Anaplan drawn from our latest Value Index research, which provides an analytic assessment of how well vendor offerings address buyers’ requirements.

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Analyst Perspective
Varicent is a Value Index Leader in Sales Performance Management

With the backing of Great Hill Partners and Spectrum Equity, the company Varicent Software launched on Jan. 1st, purchasing IBM’s Sales Performance Management (SPM) assets and hiring employees from IBM’s SPM group. They will join a new team that incl

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Analyst Perspective
Xactly Demonstrates Strong Performance in SPM Value Index

Here are some insights on Xactly drawn from our latest Value Index research, which provides an analytic assessment of how well vendor offerings address buyers’ requirements.

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Analyst Perspective
Oracle Leads Sales Performance Management Value Index

Here are some insights on Oracle drawn from our latest Value Index research, which provides an analytic assessment of how well vendor offerings address buyers’ requirements.

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Analyst Perspective
The Science of Sales Performance Management

Ensuring that the sales organization contributes as fully as possible to the success of the organization — to revenue, growth, profitability and the overall customer experience — requires not only dedication but effective strategy and planning.

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Analyst Perspective
Gaining Dynamic Insights on Sales Planning

Managing sales processes and resources without careful planning is a recipe for failure. Effectiveness in sales starts with planning that involves the full range of stakeholders.

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Analyst Perspective
Dynamic Insights Research on Sales Analytics Guides Innovation, not Evolution

Having effective analytics enables businesses to understand far better than ever before the data they’re collecting, and to do so in greater volumes and more forms.

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Analyst Perspective
The Business Continuity Imperative: The Agent and Customer with Contact Centers in 2020 and Beyond

Contact centers play a substantial role in an organization’s success. The customer journey is engaged here, at each moment of interaction.

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Analyst Perspective
The Business Continuity Imperative: The Subscriber Experience and Subscription Management in 2020 and Beyond

Subscriptions are the future of business. Subscribers are essential to an organization’s overall business potential because they generate recurring revenue.

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Analyst Perspective
The Business Continuity Imperative: The Digital Experience in Marketing for 2020 and Beyond

Marketing is inextricably linked to business success, and digital technology is essential to an organization’s overall marketing potential because it generates interest and brand awareness.

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Analyst Perspective
The Business Continuity Imperative: The Workforce Experience and Human Capital Management in 2020 and Beyond

The workforce is an essential part of an organization’s overall business potential because it ensures continuous operations, even in black-swan events.

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Analyst Perspective
Why I Joined Ventana Research to Lead Office of Sales

I’m very excited to announce to my network as well as the ever-expanding Ventana Research community that I’m now directing Ventana Research’s Office of Sales practice.

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Analyst Perspective
Subscription and Usage Management Technology Needs for the Modern Economy

Subscription-based business models have seen exponential growth over the last decade. The growth of this recurring revenue business model, where a subscriber commits to repeatedly pay for a good or device for a fixed or indefinite timeline, has been

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White Paper
Personalizing Digital Commerce

Digital commerce is changing how B2B companies buy and sell. They must have the ability to delight customers by enabling purchasing however customers want to interact.

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Analyst Perspective
Subscription and Usage Management Technology Needs for the Modern Economy

Subscription-based business models have seen exponential growth over the last decade. The growth of this recurring revenue business model, where a subscriber commits to repeatedly pay for a good or device for a fixed or indefinite timeline, has been

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Analyst Perspective
Varicent: Symon.AI earns our 13th Digital Innovation Award for Office of Sales

The annual Ventana Research Digital Innovation Awards showcases advances in the productivity and potential of business applications, as well as technology that contributes significantly to improved efficiency and productivity in the processes and the

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Analyst Perspective
The Art and Science of Sales from the “Inside Out"

Although historically there has been a hard divide between what are colloquially called “Inside and Field Sales,” changes over the last 10 years have narrowed the distinction.

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Analyst Perspective
The Necessity of Sales Performance Management

True leadership is the ability to motivate sales organizations to perform at their best.

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Webinar
The Modern Age of Revenue Operations

The need to optimize revenue from all buying and selling channels is essential for every organization that wishes to maximize their potential. To achieve it requires a dedication to have the insights that come from analytics applied to the sales chan

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Analyst Perspective
The Ventana Research 2021 Market Agenda: How Digital Effectiveness Impacts Organizational Agility

Ventana Research has announced its market agenda for 2021, continuing the tradition of transparency in our efforts to educate and guide the technology market but also our independence as we do not share our market agenda or analyst perspectives with

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White Paper
Digitize Pricing to Optimize Revenue and Margin

Pricing is an ongoing source of anxiety for organizations because pricing decisions have a direct impact on sales volumes, revenue and profitability. Over the years, a variety of strategies have been in place to establish prices for products, dependi

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Analyst Perspective
The 2021 Market Agenda for Office of Sales: The Revolution for Revenue

Ventana Research recently announced its 2021 research agenda for the Office of Sales, continuing the guidance we’ve offered for nearly two decades to help organizations realize optimal value from applying technology to improve business outcomes.

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Analyst Perspective
Oracle and Sales Cloud has Priority on Engagement and AI

The current pandemic has disrupted many of the traditional sales methods used by field-sales organizations to engage, and sell to, buyers. In an effort to provide help, many vendors have recently announced new features that focus less on the manageme

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Viewpoint
The Journey to Revenue Management

Revenue Management and its operational support by way of Revenue Operations is a relatively new concept that reflects the reality of changing business models.

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Analyst Perspective
Revenue Management: The Opportunity for Innovation and Optimization

With modern enterprises adopting and expanding their digital business with subscription and usage business, organizations need to think beyond the primacy of sales as their source of business success.

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Analyst Perspective
Salesforce Sales Cloud: Evolving to Meet the 360 Needs of Sales

There is no doubt that the pandemic has accelerated the existing need for new technology that can help sales professionals do their jobs well in this quickly evolving market.

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Analyst Perspective
The Experience of Digital Commerce

Digital commerce affects almost everyone’s lives. It is hard to remember a time when one could not sign on to a website like Amazon, order a product, pay for it and have it delivered to your front door within days, not weeks.

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Analyst Perspective
SugarCRM Brings the Sweetness in AI Driven Sales

As I have discussed in my Analyst Perspective, The Art of Sales, from the Inside Out, the challenges facing direct sales leaders are not going away. Declining quota attainment, lack of visibility into deal health and difficulty in forecasting quarter

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Analyst Perspective
The Science of Sales Professional Effectiveness

Observed both here and elsewhere, average sales quota attainments appear to be in an exorable decline. As I discussed in my recent Analyst Perspective, "The Art and Science of Sales from the 'Inside Out'," vendors of sales technology have reacted to

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Analyst Perspective
Subscription Pricing Changing for Sustained Customer Growth

Subscription pricing models are no longer new. Many companies have experience with this pricing model even if there has not been complete adoption across their entire product and service offerings.

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Webinar
Selling Your Sales Organization on Some Hard Truths

The rise of internet-based information has created additional challenges for traditional field sales organizations as buyers are well along their buyers’ journey prior to engaging with vendors. This downward pressure on average quota attainment has a

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Videocast
Implementing Price Management for Success

Approaches to “pricing,” or the discipline of setting prices, vary across industries and across different organizations within the same industry. Many factors determine how companies go about pricing, but with the rise of the digital economy and the

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Videocast
Revenue Management: Opportunity for Innovation and Organization

Revenue Management. The concept represents significant change in how organizations manage the operations and performance of revenue—across EVERY channel, direct and indirect, physical and digital, commerce and subscriptions. Revenue Management can—an

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Analyst Perspective
Revenue Performance Management: Leadership and Operations for Optimal Outcomes

As laid out in my recent Analyst Perspective, Revenue Management: The Opportunity for Innovation and Optimization, revenue management is a new way look at generating and managing the top line.

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Analyst Perspective
Reinventing Product Experiences Through Product Information Management

Having just completed the 2021 Ventana Research Value Index for Product Information Management, I want to share some of my observations about how the market and category have advanced since our first examination over 15 years ago.

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Analyst Perspective
Sales Forecasting: Have the Process and Technology for a True Revenue Forecast?

There has been a lot of market activity around vendors offering sales-forecasting products (or functionality to address sales forecasting) as part of a wider technology offering for sales and revenue management.

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Research Perspective
Enabling Advanced Monetization

Digitally native organizations are those that have existed from their inception primarily in the digital world, and that typically engage with customers and deliver their products or services via a digital interaction. Well-known examples include Net

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White Paper
Incentive Compensation in Modern Revenue Management

Incentive compensation management (ICM) systems have traditionally focused on the needs of sales divisions, but these groups are typically distinct from other departments within the organization and are usually compensated based primarily on new sale

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Analyst Perspective
Varicent Advances SPM and New Revenue Intelligence

As mentioned in my Analyst Perspective, Revenue Performance Management: Leadership and Operations for Optimal Outcomes, there is continuing pressure on sales leaders to deliver against sales targets in increasingly competitive markets.

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Viewpoint
Sales Performance Management is Key to Sales Team Success

Sales leaders continue to face challenges in hitting revenue targets. That's no secret. Pressure is coming from increased competition, better-informed buyers who are doing internet research—and more buyers overall. Leaders have various levers availab

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Analyst Perspective
CommerceIQ Earns Office of Sales Digital Innovation Award for 2021

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.

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Analyst Perspective
Subscription Automation Enables a Better Subscriber Experience

A subscription business model and an exceptional customer experience are equal priorities for many organizations. Much has been written about both: Subscription and usage services are considered the business model for the digital age, and a great cus

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White Paper
Why Data and AI Matter in Sales

Revenue growth is a key indicator of competitive success. This is a given, yet for many companies, competing successfully is becoming more difficult. No matter the size of the organization, it seems there are new competitors in the market, both domes

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Analyst Perspective
Revenue Management Maximizes Partner and Reseller Subscriptions

Among the many digital economy trends written about in recent years, one of the most significant has been the adoption of a subscription business model.

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Analyst Perspective
BillingPlatform Bolsters the Rise of Subscription Services

Subscription management and billing services help organizations offer unique benefits and enhance delivery to customers. By making services more personalized, organizations can acquire – and retain – more customers.

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Self-Assessment
Pricing

Profitable pricing has always been a critical factor for business success. Over the years, organizations have developed different strategies to establish prices for their products and services depending on previous practices, the structure of the bus

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Analyst Perspective
Pricing Optimization Software Helps Maximize Revenue

Price management and optimization is not a new discipline, but until now, it has been restricted to particular industries — such as discrete manufacturing and chemicals — where there are potentially hundreds if not thousands of stock-keeping units co

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Analyst Perspective
Vindicia Showcases Bundling and Subscription Intelligence

The subscription business model has seen much growth in all aspects of the market in recent years. Now considered the standard for the digital age, the model’s implementation travels parallel to rising technology, leading to the demand for newer func

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Market Perspective
Clari Enables Improved Performance in Revenue Operations

For disruptive technology companies, maturity is often accompanied by the realization that customer retention and expansion are as important as a new logo acquisition.

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Analyst Perspective
Revenue and Commercial Operations: The Difference Matters

The emergence of the Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) has mirrored the adoption of the subscription model and the development of multiple selling and buying channels over and above the traditional direct sales model, referred to as Revenue Management.

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Analyst Perspective
Pricefx Optimizes Pricing for Profits

Traditionally, price management and optimization have been contained to certain industries, such as large-scale manufacturing and chemicals. Those industries involve potentially tens of thousands of stock-keeping units (SKUs) covering a wide variety

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Ventana Research maintains a rigorous approach to its areas of research expertise through a methodology of processes and activities to ensure we provide the best possible insights on technology across business and IT. This is represented in our Research Agenda, which is a foundation for providing actionable information and guidance to help you identify opportunities for improved competitiveness and effectiveness. Other industry analyst firms lack methodology and a publicly available research agenda and are easily biased by clients and the industry. We take pride in our reputation for independence and provide our research calendar and agenda for visibility into the upcoming months of activity.

November

  • Analyst Perspective
    Commercial Operations;
    From Sales Performance to Revenue Performance Management
  • Benchmark Research
    Revenue Management in design;
    Subscription Management in design
  • Dynamic Insights
    Sales Analytics in collection;
    Sales Planning in collection
  • Value Index
    Subscription Management in design;
    Revenue Performance Management in design

December

  • Analyst Perspective
    Continuous Planning for Rev Ops;
    Lead to Cash;
    Digital Commerce (B2C)
  • Benchmark Research
    Digital Commerce in design;
    Revenue Management launched;
    Subscription Management launched
  • Dynamic Insights
    Sales Analytics in collection;
    Sales Planning in collection
  • Value Index
    Digital Commerce in design;
    Subscription Management in design;
    Revenue Performance Management in collection

January

  • Analyst Perspective
    AI For Sales
  • Benchmark Research
    Digital Commerce launched;
    Revenue Management in collection;
    Subscription Management launched
  • Dynamic Insights
    Sales Analytics in collection;
    Sales Planning in collection
  • Value Index
    Digital Commerce in collection;
    Subscription Management publishes;
    Revenue Performance Management in collection

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Vendors Covered

Vendors Not Covered or Recommended

  • 6sense
  • BigCommerce
  • Channeltivity
  • Chargebee
  • Chargify
  • CloudSense
  • Digital River
  • Elastic Path
  • FastSpring
  • Gotransverse
  • Highspot
  • InsideView
  • Mediafly
  • Model N
  • Recurly
  • RecVue
  • Revegy
  • Seismic
  • Slatwall Commerce
  • Tacton CPQ
  • Worldline
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