Smarter With Gartner

AUGUST 22, 2021

Download Now: 2020-2022 Emerging Technology Roadmap for Large Enterprises. NFTs are also one of the additions to the Gartner Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies 2021, which highlights the 25 breakthrough technologies that will have the most significant effect on business and society over the next two-to-ten years.

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Smarter With Gartner

JULY 12, 2021

Whether the end goal is to optimize or transform, organizations need a digital business technology platform (DBTP) to enable it. A DBTP provides the architecture to interlace and orchestrate five overlapping technology sub-platforms critical to digital business. 10 Steps to Building a Digital Business Technology Platform.

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Search Engine Land

AUGUST 28, 2024

While ERNIE is a part of Baidu’s broader AI strategy, including applications in search, autonomous driving and cloud computing, in May 2024, Baidu disclosed that around 11% of traditional core search results were generated using AI technology. Another key product in Baidu’s portfolio is Wenku. Get the newsletter search marketers rely on.

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Salesmate

JANUARY 28, 2020

19 best sales influencers to follow in 2020. He is also the author of the award-winning book “The Sales Acceleration: Using Data, Technology and Inbound Selling to go from $0 to $100 Million”. The post 19 best sales influencers you must follow in 2020 appeared first on Salesmate. Sales CRM that works your way!

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Martech

JANUARY 13, 2022

Instead of using Zoom and showing a remote participant on a screen, they can use hologram technology and place a three-dimensional version of the person on a stage, or in a boardroom. In 2020, during the first and second waves of Covid-19, ARHT Media gained visibility in their application of holograms for NBA broadcasts on ESPN.

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Martech

MARCH 14, 2022

Embarking on a journey to marketing technology transformation is also not without disappointments. Read on for a proven approach to unlock the power of your marketing technology and tip the odds of transformation success in your favor. But the sky is not falling just yet, my friends. Don’t be a martech hyper-consumer.

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STAR Results

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Are your sales managers ready to crush it in 2020 or will it be another frustrating, mediocre 12-months? You may be considering implementing a technology or selling skills initiative. What type of results can your team achieve in 2020, if every sales rep performed liked a hunter searching for their next sale?

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Martech

AUGUST 1, 2024

Yet, it’s important to recognize AI’s proper role — a technology that saves you time and grows the business by enhancing your work, not entirely replacing it. They are both fast food companies using AI technology during the food ordering process. McDonald’s uses technology to reduce employee interaction.

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Heinz Marketing

JUNE 12, 2021

How to Remember 2020. Amid the hope of 2021, if we close our minds to 2020, we will be doing ourselves a disservice. Today’s marketers are responsible for technology, demand generation, branding, communications, PR, AR, content generation, thought leadership, sales enablement, and so much more.

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Martech

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

of total revenue, down from a high of 11% in 2020 and 9.1% Paid media investment in search, social media and digital display advertising is soaring, along with offline spending on event and influencer marketing and TV — all at the expense of marketing technology , human resources and agencies. The average marketing budget is 7.7%

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Having the right technology in place is often the difference between success and failure, and this is even more true for startups and SMB, where you have a small team and limited resources. You can access the full 2020 Startup Sales Stack Report here. Get started on equipping your sales team for success today. Thank you, and enjoy!

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Martech

MAY 25, 2022

But do you have the right technology to achieve your goals? As you evaluate your martech stack, you might realize that you need to do more than use the right technology — you need to optimize it. Optimization science is harnessing the full potential of customer-facing technology. Selecting the right technology platform.

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Martech

MAY 24, 2023

Gartner research suggests around 42% of the stack’s potential is utilized, startlingly down from 58% in 2020. There’s a significant cost too associated with paying for technology resources that stand idle. The post 3 steps to building a three-star marketing technology function appeared first on MarTech.

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Martech

JULY 24, 2024

Think beyond national boundaries: Paris sponsors are The brand sponsorship landscape is drastically different from the 2020 Tokyo Games (which took place in 2021 because of COVID-19). “But because the WNBA is starting to get more of a voice now, there’s a convergence with these players and brands.”

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Martech

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Maybe digital won’t grow again like it did in 2020 and 2021, but it’s also not going back. Salesforce’s own research shows more than 50% of revenue for small businesses coming from digital channels in 2025, up from the current 42%. That genie is out of the bottle.

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Veloxy

APRIL 5, 2021

Our blog on why empathetic companies are seeing more organizational success in 2020 covers this more widely. As of June 1 st 2020, this is the top desired customer service trait next to empathy. Before we wind up, meeting today’s higher customer standards means arming your team with the right information and technology.

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Veloxy

APRIL 15, 2021

As technology and innovation advance at near light speed, the demands on IT leaders are more intense than ever. In our post about upcoming tech changes in 2020 , we touched on what this decade holds in store. If your company has begun implementing new technologies, you’re well on your way to joining the big leagues.

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Salesforce

APRIL 29, 2022

But what happens when catastrophes converge, like when 2020’s pandemic met severe hurricanes and wildfires? Older technology systems lack flexibility and can’t deliver the utility customer satisfaction level critical in today’s competitive market. They prepare for everything from natural disasters to terrorist attacks.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

Here they are… The 97 Best Sales Books in 2020. Which is why this pioneering guide shows you how to build a fully streamlined sales engine that uses modern techniques and technologies. Technology has fundamentally shifted how prospects buy… which means that salespeople have to catch up and change how they sell.

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Veloxy

APRIL 28, 2021

We already know that AI technology can drive vehicles, but did you also know that it can drive sales? AI has been around for a while now, but its applications have been relatively low before the pandemic hit in 2020. Artificial intelligence is a wide, umbrella term covering a broad range of different technologies.

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Martech

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

presidential election is set to break records for political ad spending, with projections estimating a monumental $12 billion by election day — more than a 30% increase compared to 2020. The 2024 U.S. And it is not just traditional ad spending. Digital media costs will soar.

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Veloxy

JUNE 6, 2022

In 2020, COVID-19 had a negative impact on field sales. To our surprise, the great reduction in prospect and customer response rates was the number one challenge faced by field sales since 2020. Extending inside sales technology to the field. Would you like to know the other inside sales technology demanded by field pros?

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

It specializes in creating personalized shopping experiences for customers by leveraging machine learning and AI technologies. Between 2014 and 2020, Zoom rapidly expanded its product portfolio, adding features like Zoom Rooms, Zoom Phone, and multiple add-on packages.

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Martech

DECEMBER 18, 2024

zettabytes in 2020 to 181 zettabytes by 2025. Aligning AI efforts with business outcomes ensures the technology drives meaningful impact rather than generating more confusion. The data explosion and its challenges The amount of data created globally is staggering. If stored on 64 GB flash drives, 181 zettabytes would fill roughly 2.8

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Martech

AUGUST 29, 2024

Based on global statistics, around 66% of shoppers plan to buy based on price this year, an increase of 20% since 2020. Salesforce expects the 2024 holiday season to be shorter and more competitive with brands facing the challenge of attracting consumers with less purchasing power. billion global shoppers across more than 64 countries.

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Salesforce

OCTOBER 1, 2024

billion in 2017 to $8 billion in 2020. After some years of declining sales, retail’s Halloween season is now the industry’s second biggest retail holiday. A few years before the pandemic, Halloween spending was down in the U.S. But last year, the National Retail Federation estimated the U.S. would spend a record $12.2 billion on candy.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 27, 2020

This technology will improve 7 percent of search queries across all languages as we roll it out globally. — Danny Sullivan (@dannysullivan) October 20, 2020. Still the same if we show a page based on improved ranking technology. — Danny Sullivan (@dannysullivan) October 22, 2020. victorpan) October 20, 2020.

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Martech

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Budgets were almost cut in half, falling from 11% in 2020 to 6.4% One year ago, based on its “CMO Spend Survey 2020-2021,” Gartner predicted that marketing technology would see increased spend even as other functions were cut back. In fact marketing technology held steady as a percentage of overall budget (an increase of 0.4%

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Martech

AUGUST 17, 2021

But the sudden economic and cultural shifts, reversals and shutdowns throughout 2020 forced many marketers to remake everything from their marketing plans for the year to the mechanics of getting emails out the door. Finally, the abrupt shift to remote work in 2020 exposed weaknesses in the day-to-day email workflow. Agility matters.

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Martech

OCTOBER 4, 2022

That’s a 16% drop from 2020, when 58% said they were maximizing their stacks’ capabilities. Researchers say this decline has been caused by increased martech function of individual solutions, hiring problems and the increasingly complicated environment of marketing technology overall. Get MarTech! In your inbox. Processing.Please wait.

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Martech

JUNE 14, 2023

Not just in the technology, but in attitudes and usage. 64% of B2B marketers consider AI to be valuable in their marketing strategy 80% of marketers in 2020 already had chatbots as part of their customer experience strategy. Marketers’ AI usage increased from 29% in 2018 to 84% in 2020 — a 55% jump. more than two years old.

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Cerebral Selling

AUGUST 8, 2022

Since March 2020, the world has been in a state of constant change and uncertainty. The disruption will continue, particularly as technology advances and disrupts work as we know it today. These ups and downs are a normal part of business (and the human experience).

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Salesforce

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

In some industries, people are afraid they’ll lose their jobs to technology. Meanwhile, applications from young people seeking work as skilled tradespeople dropped almost 50% from 2020 to 2022. That’s where technology comes in. The Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that U.S. The Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that U.S.

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Martech

MAY 19, 2022

We hope you’ll take this opportunity to download this free buyers’ guide that looks at today’s email marketing technology and walks you through what you should consider before adopting a new platform or making the switch from your current provider. What else delivers an ROI of $36 for every $1 spent, after all? Venture funding.

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Martech

MAY 3, 2022

There’s a good reason you feel overwhelmed by the marketing technology out there. They estimate the landscape has grown 24% since the 2020 edition — and a staggering 5,233% since the first edition in 2011. One might imagine a technology company (marketing or otherwise) as a fully staffed operation selling a range of products.

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Martech

AUGUST 19, 2022

Integrating your marketing technology stack into a unified digital ecosystem can be challenging and time-consuming. Technical debt in the case of marketing technology is similar to that of software development projects. Some 25% of marketing budgets are spent on marketing technology, according to the 2022 Gartner CMO Spend Survey.

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