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                  Analyst Perspective
                  Smart Manufacturing Increases Productivity and Resilience

                  Smart manufacturing is a strategic operating approach that aligns manufacturing technology with system and process design to increase productivity.

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                  2024 Market Agenda for Operations and Supply Chain: Seize the Opportunity

                  The 2024 Operations and Supply Chain Market Agenda helps guide leaders as they digitize operations and supply chain processes to enable business resiliency.

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                  Mining, Intelligence and Monitoring Achieve the Best Process Outcomes

                  Process mining, intelligence and monitoring provide better visibility to understand how work is performed to improve performance.

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                  Granarolo S.p.A. Earns O&SC Digital Leadership Award with Board International for 2023

                  Granarolo S.p.A. earned the 2023 O&SC Digital Leadership Award using Board International to unify its approach to planning and control processes.

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                  AI Will Increase the Strategic Value of S&OP

                  Dedicated planning software utilizes AI to shorten planning and forecasting cycles and promote agility and resilience.

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                  Reverse Factoring Lubricating the Wheels of Supply Chains

                  Everything old is new again: reverse factoring benefits supply chain finance by simplifying the payment process, reducing costs and transaction frictions.

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                  Collaborative Supply Chain Forecasting Improves Performance

                  Organizations should create a controlled hub to share information about supply chain disruptions or inaccurate forecasts to lower costs and mitigate risks.

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                  Market Perspective
                  Samsara Earns Ops & Supply Chain Digital Innovation Award for 2023

                  Samsara’s Connected Operation Cloud aims to end organizations’ reliance on siloed manual processes and legacy systems.

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                  Analyst Perspective
                  Improving Supply Chain Management in the Post-Pandemic World

                  Organizations that follow a continuous supply chain approach use AI/ML to gain fast, actionable information that informs supply chain decision-making.

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                  Market Perspective
                  insightsoftware Is a Vendor of Merit in Product Experience Management

                  Ventana Research assesses product experience management software from insightsoftware.

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                  Market Perspective
                  Precisely Is a Vendor of Merit in Product Experience Management

                  Ventana Research assesses product experience management software from Precisely.

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                  Market Perspective
                  Oracle Is a Vendor of Merit in Product Experience Management

                  Ventana Research assesses product experience management software from Oracle.

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                  Market Perspective
                  Sales Layer Is a Vendor of Merit in Product Experience Management

                  Ventana Research assesses product experience management software from Sales Layer.

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                  Market Perspective
                  Perfion Is a Vendor of Assurance in Product Experience Management

                  Ventana Research assesses product experience management software from Perfion.

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                  Market Perspective
                  IBM Is a Vendor of Merit in Product Experience Management

                  Ventana Research assesses product experience management software from IBM.

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                  Market Perspective
                  Contentserv Is Vendor of Assurance in Product Experience Management

                  Ventana Research assesses product experience management software from Contentserv.

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                  Market Perspective
                  Bluestone PIM Is a Vendor of Assurance in PXM

                  Ventana Research assesses product experience management software from Bluestone PIM.

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                  Market Perspective
                  Pimcore Is Rated Innovative in Product Experience Management

                  Ventana Research assesses product experience management software from Pimcore.

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                  Market Perspective
                  Viamedici Is Rated Innovative in Product Experience Management

                  Ventana Research assesses product experience management software from Viamedici.

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                  Market Perspective
                  Stibo Systems Is Rated Exemplary in Product Experience Management

                  Ventana Research assesses product experience management software from Stibo Systems.

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                  Market Perspective
                  Inriver Is Rated Exemplary and Leader in Product Experience Management

                  Ventana Research assesses product experience management software from inriver.

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                  Market Perspective
                  Syndigo Is Rated Innovative in Product Experience Management

                  Ventana Research assesses product experience management software from Syndigo.

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                  Market Perspective
                  Salsify Is Rated Exemplary in Product Experience Management

                  Ventana Research assesses product experience management software from Salsify.

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                  Akeneo Is Exemplary and Leader in Product Experience Management

                  Ventana Research assesses product experience management software from Akeneo.

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                  Market Perspective
                  Informatica Is Rated Exemplary and an Overall Leader in Product Experience Management

                  Informatica is rated Exemplary and an Overall Leader in the 2023 Product Experience Management Value Index Market Report.

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                  Analyst Perspective
                  Product Experience Management Value Index Classifies and Rates Vendors

                  The Product Experience Management Value Index 2023 gauges how well offerings from 16 vendors match buyers’ requirements.

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                  Product Experience Management Requires Next-Gen Digital Technology

                  Ventana Research shares part two of its observations from the 2023 Product Experience Management Value Index Market Report.

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                  Product Experience Management Market Requires Digital and Processes Excellence

                  Ventana Research shares observations from the 2023 Product Experience Management Value Index Market Report.

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                  Foundational Blockchain Founders as TradeLens Shuts Down

                  TradeLens, the defunct joint venture between Maersk and IBM, was formed to make supply chain management easier through access to accurate shipping data.

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                  Cloud ERP is the Path Forward for Manufacturing and Product Companies

                  Cloud enterprise resource planning vendors are making systems more adaptable to the unique needs of manufacturing and product companies.

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                  Analyst Perspective
                  2023 Market Agenda: Greater Agility for a Less Certain World

                  The 2023 Operations and Supply Chain Market Agenda will help organizations derive optimal value and improved outcomes from business technology.

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                  Market Perspective
                  Steward Health Care Earns 2022 Digital Leadership with Alteryx

                  Steward Health Care earned the 2022 Digital Leadership Award in Operations and Supply Chain for using Alteryx to enhance supply chain operations.

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                  Analyst Perspective
                  Kinaxis Extends Platform into Supply Chain Execution with MPO Acquisition

                  Kinaxis recently announced it has acquired a Netherlands-based company, MPO, a cloud-based software offering that orchestrates multiparty supply chain execution. The combination is designed to enable Kinaxis to extend its concurrent planning platform

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                  Continuous Planning Provides Action, Agility and Accuracy

                  The term “continuous planning” may conjure up images of never-ending meetings in which nothing gets accomplished, but Ventana Research uses it to describe a highly collaborative, action-oriented approach to corporate planning built on frequent, short

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                  Webinar: Best Practices in Mergers and the Supply Chain

                  Failure to plan how to achieve sustainable operational efficiencies, including supply chains, will result in missed opportunities to attain the expected synergies and an inability to discover additional, less obvious sources of value in the combinati

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                  Webinar: Sales Stories from the Frontline

                  Today’s sales organizations are faced with many challenges when it comes to realizing the full potential of assigned territories and account locations. Simultaneously, organizations need to be agile in order to support their sales leadership and oper

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                  Creating Better Accountability and Experiences in Work Management

                  All organizations can improve. Every business entity, regardless of the state of its current performance, can up its productivity and utilize its resources better.

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                  Webinar: Business Continuity and Growth - Location Planning for Sales and Service

                  It is always the right time for maximizing the potential of your organization’s sales and service locations and territories. But now more than ever, there is a heightened sense of pressure to perform in the face of market volatility and black swan ev

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                  Infographic
                  CONTINUOUS PLANNING to Improve Business Performance

                  Continuous Planning is a high participation, collaborative approach that connects and aligns operational and financial forecasts to support action-oriented planning. This method promotes agility that is valuable both in times of crises and in a stead

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                  MANAGE PROFITABILITY to Boost Your BOTTOM LINE

                  Profitability management is especially valuable as corporations confront cost-price pressures, shifting demand and supply conditions, and structural changes in markets and economies. Having the right tool along with the right data is the first step t

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                  Videocast
                  Build An Actionable Profitability Management Initiative

                  Everyone running a business knows that the bottom line is the bottom line. But how does your company manage profitability? There’s an important distinction between managing to profit objectives and what Ventana Research calls “profitability managemen

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                  Videocast
                  Moving Beyond Traditional FP&A

                  The ability of the finance department to execute rapid planning, forecasting and budgeting cycles is a major factor that determines a company’s adaptability to change because the planning process enables executives to guide the organization on the pa

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                  QandA
                  An Executive Discussion on Work Management

                  Organizations are finding it increasingly difficult to address the changing demands of work in a way that optimally utilizes resources to deliver improved results while controlling levels of financial investment. C-level and executive teams must ensu

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                  QandA
                  Open Communications, Business Continuity and the Digital Work Experience

                  How can open communications deliver on the vision for seamless digital work experiences now and in the next 12 months? Can a digital communications platform deliver short-term cost savings that translate into long-term operational efficiencies for wo

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                  QandA
                  The Strategic Factors for PIM

                  Why is it important to support cloud computing for Product Information Management? Mark Smith sheds light on what can be done to ensure operations across distributed cloud computing environments. Read the Q&A.

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                  White Paper
                  Collaborative Enterprise Planning

                  Collaborative enterprise planning is a methodology that connects all planning activities of a company’s departments and business units, enabling them to share their plans and to plan collaboratively.

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                  White Paper
                  Winning in the New Era of Trade

                  CEOs, CFOs and other senior executives of organizations with even moderately complex multinational supply chains must face the challenge of ensuring they are able to manage their supply chains both tactically and strategically.

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                  Research Perspective
                  Making PIM Configurable and Reliable for Manufacturing

                  To run smoothly and successfully, a manufacturing organization that’s already digitally connected internally and with customers and the supply chain needs consistent, accurate, configurable and actionable product information. To accomplish this, the

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                  Research Perspective
                  Supply Chain Planning with Prescriptive Analytics

                  Technology has steadily advanced the analytic techniques that enable businesses to undertake the challenge of supply chain optimization. These have evolved from basic inventory optimization routines to more complex algorithms that address multiple ob

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                  Research Perspective
                  Next-Generation Workforce Planning

                  Traditional workforce planning is a set of processes performed by the Human Resources (HR) function, working with business units and departments to address short- and long- term staffing needs. In this model, HR provides guidelines on pay rates per l

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                  Market Perspective
                  Kinaxis Earns Operations and Supply Chain Digital Innovation Award

                  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

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                  eBook
                  Continuous Planning

                  Continuous planning is a highly collaborative, action-oriented approach to corporate planning and budgeting built on frequent, short planning cycles.

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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.

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                  eBook
                  How to Achieve an ROI from PIM

                  Modern product information management (PIM) has the potential to deliver value far beyond the efficiency gains of the current operational approach.

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                  eBook
                  The Keystone for Digital Commerce

                  A modern digital commerce environment adapts to business continuity requirements and the demand of constantly changing consumer expectations.

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                  Analyst Perspective
                  Kinaxis Optimizes Agile Supply Chain Planning

                  Kinaxis is a sales and operation planning software company headquartered in Ottawa, Canada. Its RapidResponse is an S&OP platform for concurrent planning, designed to integrate an organization’s supply chain planning silos, accelerate planning cycles

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                  Analyst Perspective
                  2022 Market Agenda: Increasing Supply Chain Agility and Resilience

                  Ventana Research recently announced its 2022 research agenda for Operations and Supply Chain, continuing the guidance we’ve offered for nearly two decades to help organizations across industries derive optimal value from business technology and impro

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                  Analyst Perspective
                  Digital Business Market Agenda for 2022: Resilience and Readiness

                  With the announcement of Ventana Research’s 2022 Market Agenda, our expertise in Digital Business continues to advance the market need for effective investments into technology, and I will outline here the key areas of focus to provide insights to or

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                  Market Perspective
                  Burberry Earns Digital Leadership Award in Operations and Supply Chain with Board International for 2021

                  The annual Ventana Research Digital Leadership Awards recognize organizations and individuals that utilize technology to advance business and IT. The Digital Leadership Awards showcase the professional leadership and their use of business application

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                  Analyst Perspective
                  Innovit Named a Vendor with Merit in the 2021 PIM Value Index

                  We are happy to share some insights about Innovit MDM drawn from our latest Value Index research, which assesses how well vendors’ offerings meet buyers’ requirements.

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                  Analyst Perspective
                  Contentserv is a Vendor with Merit in the 2021 PIM Value Index

                  We are happy to share some insights about Contentserv CS drawn from our latest Value Index research, which assesses how well vendors’ offerings meet buyers’ requirements.

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                  Analyst Perspective
                  Perfion Named a Vendor with Merit in the 2021 PIM Value Index

                  We are happy to share some insights about Perfion drawn from our latest Value Index research, which assesses how well vendors’ offerings meet buyers’ requirements.

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                  Analyst Perspective
                  Winshuttle is a Vendor with Merit in the 2021 PIM Value Index

                  We are happy to share some insights about Winshuttle EnterWorks drawn from our latest Value Index research, which assesses how well vendors’ offerings meet buyers’ requirements.

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                  Viamedici Named a Vendor with Merit in the 2021 PIM Value Index

                  We are happy to share some insights about Viamedici EPIM drawn from our latest Value Index research, which assesses how well vendors’ offerings meet buyers’ requirements.

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                  Oracle is a Vendor of Merit in the 2021 PIM Value Index

                  We are happy to share some insights about Oracle’s Product Lifecycle Management Cloud drawn from our latest Value Index research, which assesses how well vendors’ offerings meet buyers’ requirements.

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                  inRiver is a Vendor of Assurance in the 2021 PIM Value Index

                  We are happy to share some insights about inRiver PIM drawn from our latest Value Index research, which assesses how well vendors’ offerings meet buyers’ requirements.

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                  Analyst Perspective
                  IBM Named an Innovative Vendor in the 2021 PIM Value Index

                  We are happy to share some insights about IBM Product Master drawn from our latest Value Index research, which assesses how well vendors’ offerings meet buyers’ requirements.

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                  Bluestone PIM Named a Vendor of Assurance in the 2021 Value Index

                  We are happy to share some insights about Bluestone PIM drawn from our latest Value Index research, which assesses how well vendors’ offerings meet buyers’ requirements.

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                  Analyst Perspective
                  Stibo Systems is Innovative in the 2021 PIM Value Index

                  We are happy to share some insights about Stibo Systems Enterprise Platform drawn from our latest Value Index research, which assesses how well vendors’ offerings meet buyers’ requirements.

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                  Analyst Perspective
                  Riversand is Exemplary and a Leader in the 2021 PIM Value Index

                  We are happy to share some insights about Riversand PX 360 drawn from our latest Value Index research, which assesses how well vendors’ offerings meet buyers’ requirements.

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                  Salsify is Exemplary and a Leader in the 2021 PIM Value Index

                  We are happy to share some insights about Salsify ProductXM drawn from our latest Value Index research, which assesses how well vendors’ offerings meet buyers’ requirements.

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                  Analyst Perspective
                  Magnitude is Exemplary in the 2021 PIM Value Index

                  We are happy to share some insights about Magnitude Agility PIM drawn from our latest Value Index research, which assesses how well vendors’ offerings meet buyers’ requirements.

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                  Akeneo Rated Exemplary Leader in the 2021 PIM Value Index

                  We are happy to share some insights about Akeneo Serenity drawn from our latest Value Index research, which assesses how well vendors’ offerings meet buyers’ requirements.

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                  Informatica is Exemplary and Leader in the 2021 PIM Value Index

                  We are happy to share some insights about Informatica's Product 360 drawn from our latest Value Index research, which assesses how well vendors’ offerings meet buyers’ requirements.

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                  Analyst Perspective
                  Pimcore Named Exemplary and Overall Leader in 2021 PIM Value Index

                  We are happy to share some insights about Pimcore Platform drawn from our latest Value Index research, which assesses how well vendors’ offerings meet buyers’ requirements.

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                  Analyst Perspective
                  The 2021 Product Information Management Value Index: 16 Vendors to Assess and Select

                  I am happy to share insights gleaned from our latest Value Index research, an assessment of how well vendors’ offerings meet buyers’ requirements. The Ventana Research Value Index: Product Information Management 2021 is the distillation of a year of

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                  Analyst Perspective
                  The Operations and Supply Chain Market Agenda for 2021: Increasing Agility and Resilience of the Supply Chain

                  Ventana Research recently announced its 2021 research agenda for Operations and Supply Chain, continuing the guidance we’ve offered for nearly two decades to help organizations across industries derive optimal value from business technology and impro

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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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                  Analyst Perspective
                  ShipChain Earns our 13th Digital Innovation Award for Operations and Supply Chain

                  Ventana Research has awarded ShipChain its 2020 Digital Innovation Award for Operations and Supply Chain. This award acknowledges the technology vendor that best exemplifies innovation in the technologies that support the operations or service and su

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                  QandA
                  Open Communications, Business Continuity and the Digital Work Experience

                  Maintaining business continuity when the workforce is functioning virtually requires the organization to be as responsive as possible. During times when work-from-home (WFH) is a necessity, it’s even more important that the communication tools in use

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                  Analyst Perspective
                  Modernizing PIM for Product Experience Management

                  Today’s businesses must manage a continually expanding array of data, content and digital assets as well as satisfy the demands of consumers for comprehensive product information.

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                  Analyst Perspective
                  The Business Continuity Imperative: The Supplier Relationship and Experience

                  Suppliers play a critical role in supporting the operations and processes of every organization.

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                  Analyst Perspective
                  The Ventana Research Operations and the Supply Chain Agenda in 2020

                  Ventana Research recently announced its 2020 research agenda for operations and the supply chain, continuing the guidance we’ve offered for nearly two decades to help organizations across industries derive optimal value from business technology and i

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                  Viewpoint
                  Kinaxis Enhances Supply Chain Planning in a New Era of Trade

                  Organizations with complex multinational supply chains are facing and will continue to face significant challenges in managing them. Dealing with competitive changes, new technologies, a market-driven proliferation of SKUs, the growing use of contrac

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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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