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What Is Vendor Sprawl?

Salesforce Marketing Cloud

This is known as vendor sprawl. IT teams continue to face technology and process challenges as they work to streamline their digital transformations. Today, more than 70% of customer interactions are digital, putting pressure on organizations to have connected user experiences. What is vendor sprawl?

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Lean Into Digital Transformation by Reducing Technical Debt

LeanData

Given today’s digital-first buyers, more than ever, organizations must infuse the right technology into their processes, whether it’s more efficient sales and marketing, better customer service, or simply aligning products and services with customer needs. Old and outdated code makes integrating new products difficult.

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The 2022 martech landscape shows the space growing towards 10,000 solutions

Martech

There’s a good reason you feel overwhelmed by the marketing technology out there. COVID-19 had produced initial consternation in the marketing tech community. “Would this crisis be the catalyst for consolidating if not out right collapsing the vast and vibrant martech vendor universe?” Processing.Please wait.

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What’s new and what’s working, in B2B channel partner marketing

Martech

Channel partner marketing means efforts to recruit and support third-party partners to expand a vendor’s market access. Traditional support methods include training, data-sharing, co-marketing campaigns, rebates, MDF (market development funds), and sales enablement, like content, events and sales playbooks.

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State of Customer Data Platforms in Europe

Customer Experience Matrix

market is ahead of Europeans on marketing technology in general and customer data management in particular. market) is why so many European vendors have relocated to the U.S. The ratio was seven out of 24 in the CDP Institute’s recent vendor comparison report , including nearly all of the Europe-based CDPs.)

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Replacement Survey: The top 5 solutions replaced

Martech

Mission-critical components of the martech stack were among the most replaced by marketing organizations over the last year. In the 2021 and 2022 surveys, we see something like one in five respondents saying they installed new marketing automation or CRM tools — a remarkable figure, given the likely complexity of such projects.

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4 strategies to help marketing teams improve workflow and collaboration

Martech

There’s nothing virtual about the sea change marketing teams have experienced in the last two years. The fact that marketers are working remotely over digital channels is a very concrete reality calling for new approaches to workflow. Read next: What is digital transformation? Improve visibility and centralize.