This paper discusses the top six trends influencing organizations that are considering the adoption of new software solutions to help them improve sales performance and incentive compensation practices.

An emerging software category called Sales Performance Management is providing a new level of sales management insight for firms who've adopted SPM systems. This Research Brief examines SPM in detail.

Talent is often a major barrier of organizational growth because it involves managing the growth and personalities of your workforce. So what can stakeholders do when New Hire Nancy doesn’t have a handle on the company culture? Or when Salesman Steve is behind schedule in learning about new products and services? They can start by giving an employee makeover. Download How Employee Makeovers Also Make Over Your Bottom Line and learn how making over disengaged or lower performing employees can help create a powerhouse workforce and drive financial growth. Your employees want to make an impact starting on their first day. Feeling like their company isn’t invested in them leads to employees that are more engaged with job hunting sites than with their current jobs. Read it today!

Brocade needed to ensure all employees were in compliance with the corporate code of conduct and other policies. With thousands of employees renewing their code of conduct certification annually and many renewing sales certifications quarterly, a manual process wasn’t sustainable. See how Brocade partnered with Skillsoft and developed an elearning program that effectively tracks compliance and automates course reminders for employees.

The XLS Addiction and the Impact on Your Sales Team and Potential Business Reputation

Sometimes we are failing so slowly, we think we are doing fine. Your business may be failing, one pointless conversation at a time. Do you struggle with missed sales targets? Are employees texting under the table during meetings? Do your high-level projects stall out? The source of your problems is simpler than you think.

Do you know your people as well as you know your customers? Your people’s expectations and the way they work are changing. Employees are more diverse, mobile and technologically savvy than ever before. HR processes are changing from focusing on transactions to knowing and engaging people. Just as sales and marketing teams use data to develop actionable and informed insights about their customers, you need to do the same in HR to know your people. Everything from attracting and keeping the best talent to creating better workplace experiences and increasing employee engagement and productivity, depends on smarter decisions. These in turn rely on more actionable insights. These are only possible through accurate HR data and analytics. They are vital to address the people challenges you face, so you can make smarter decisions. Discover in this guide how to improve visibility of your workforce with data-driven and actionable insights. Ultimately, it will help you know your people better and

From professional services and hospitality to healthcare and retail, businesses thrive when they have fast, reliable Internet connections. You need reliable connections to send sales transactions, upload files, transmit payroll data, and take advantage of cloud-based applications for sales, finance, and shipping. Then remember all of the different devices in your office – like mobile phones, wearables, tablets, and even desktop phones – and the need becomes even greater.

Product recommendations are a proven way for marketers to drive sales, boosting the revenue potential of every shopping experience and increasing customer engagement overall. However, most current recommendations tools have not kept up with the level of personalisation that customers have come to expect, and they often fall short of the precision that marketing teams need to create meaningful business impact. It may be time to reevaluate whether your solution is doing all it can to meet the needs of your customers and your team.

Learn more about how Live Nation used Spredfast to bridge social gaps by creating an environment of seamless collaboration between the central and local marketers.

This report analyzes online private-label sales from Sept 2017 – Aug 2018 at the category and retailer level and delivers insights on which brands pose the biggest threat online today and which categories may expect more disruption down the line.

As technology improves, lawn and garden retailers are relying more and more on their customer service to gain an advantage and differentiate themselves from the competition. Providing a pleasant customer experience can turn a first-time shopper into a lifelong buyer. In this guide, you’ll discover the important role mobile technology plays in delivering faster, service. Retailers everywhere are implementing mobile tools to empower their employees to support customers—from stock and pricing information to mobile checkout. Epicor Eagle N Series is a fully integrated retail management system that offers a whole host of mobile tools to help you service your customers, stay informed, and make decisions from anywhere. Read our guide and learn how the mobility of Epicor Eagle N Series can provide your retail business with a competitive advantage.

Plant. Feed. Nurture. Grow. Retailers today face a variety of new challenges including a concentrated selling season, customers being lured away by big-box stores, and constant margin pressures. In this guide you’ll hear directly from Lawn and Garden retailers and learn how they have leveraged Epicor Eagle N Series to grow their business and drive superior customer service. Epicor Eagle software helps lawn and garden businesses grow and thrive. Download this guide and understand how businesses like yours use retail technology from Epicor to realize a wealth of benefits.

Selecting the right software is an investment of time and money that can pay off with increased customer loyalty, more productive employees, and simpler business management. The Epicor® Eagle N Series® business management solution enables retailers to grow and thrive with powerful analysis tools that tell you ow your business is doing and why. Here is a sneak peek into 8 powerful analysis tools to consider that will help your retail business grow and thrive: 1. Store vs. Store 2. Your Top 100 Items 3. The Market Basket 4. Big Investment, Big Opportunity 5. Excess Limits Success 6. Beware the Hidden Dangers 7. A lot Can Happen in a Year 8. When Costs Change But Pricing Doesn’t Download this tip sheet to get more insight into these 8 powerful analysis tools that will help grow your retail business.

As technology improves, retailers are relying more and more on their customer service to gain an advantage and differentiate themselves from the competition. Providing a pleasant customer experience can turn a first-time shopper into a lifelong buyer. By reading this Epicor eBook, you’ll discover the important role mobile technology plays in delivering faster, service. Retailers everywhere are implementing mobile tools to empower their employees to support customers—from stock and pricing information to mobile checkout. Epicor Eagle N Series is a fully integrated retail management system that offers a whole host of mobile tools to help you service your customers, stay informed, and make decisions from anywhere. Read the eBook and learn how the mobility of Epicor Eagle N Series can provide your retail business with a competitive advantage.

Replacing your point of sale (POS) software can be daunting, yet most retailers recognize that innovation is important for delivering on evolving customer expectations. Selecting the right software is an investment of time and money that can pay off with increased customer loyalty, more productive employees, and simpler business management. Epicor has been a part of successful retail businesses for years. All that industry experience has also given us insight into what not to do, like: 1. Not involving the head of the organization in the decision-making process 2. Skipping the planning phase because it “takes too much time” 3. Considering a technology partner that doesn’t truly understand your industry 4. Assuming you will do things exactly the same way you do things today 5. Selecting a vendor that lacks a long-term product vision Read the white paper to learn more about how these mistakes can cause your organization to stumble—and how you can avoid them.

When determining which investments to make in their technology infrastructure, businesses sometimes choose to make no changes at all. While this decision avoids short-term costs and business disruption, it means the risk of reliance on obsolete technology. The cost of doing nothing is expensive in the long term. This eBook outlines exactly what is at stake for LBM businesses that wait to adopt modern technology. Download and learn how much your old system is costing your business. You’ll understand how an up-to-date solution like Epicor Bistrack helps build a path toward increased sales and profits.

By now, mobile technology has become an essential part of people’s lives. As both consumers and staff trend more toward a younger, digitally savvy demographic, lumber and building materials (LBM) businesses need to take advantage of mobile tools or risk losing to the competition. Mobile technologies can bring incredible benefits to LBM enterprises for delivery and dispatch, field sales, the selling floor, and the warehouse. To better help you seize the mobile advantage, Epicor has identified eight ways your LBM business can leverage mobile technologies to foster growth, including: • Serving your customers with the latest information • Serving your customers with timely, accurate deliveries • Driving revenue with increased efficiency • Streamlining operations Read out this Epicor eBook and discover how else your LBM business can benefit from mobile technologies.

Advertising is a high-risk game. Done well, ads break through the noise, spark conversations about your brand, drive demand, and boost sales. Done poorly, ads bury your messages, damage your brand image, fail to generate revenue, and waste budget on expensive campaigns that fail to deliver. With so much on the line, getting your ads right is crucial. How do you ensure success? Ad testing. As the name implies, ad testing is validating your ad with your target audience prior to launch. You can test individual portions of your ad, like messaging, headlines, visuals or calls to action, or even initial reactions to early ad concepts. Ad testing gives you the following benefits: • Predict the effect on purchase intent • Make informed go or no-go decisions on a specific ad launch • Understand how your brand is perceived • Get the highest ROI from your ad spend Ad testing is one of the best ways to protect your advertising budget and maximize the chances of landing the right messaging with you

Salesfusion is transforming how mid-market businesses engage audiences and measure marketing success. Our marketing automation platform is purpose-built for mid-sized companies. It is designed to include all of the features you need in a single platform that is both broad and deep in capability. We obsessed about the platform design to ensure it is easy to use with drag and drop interfaces for email, landing page, and form builders, and Salesfusion is the only marketing automation platform to include a comprehensive Business Intelligence module.

Ninety-five percent of companies polled in a recent Gartner survey considered increasing efficiency and productivity top priorities for IT departments when determining future budgets. Of those companies, 43 percent viewed increasing efficiency as a high priority, while 42 percent considered increased productivity a high priority. Many departments—such as sales or service—focus on the company’s profits. And while a smooth-functioning IT department may contribute to the overall efficiency of an organization, it traditionally provides little to no contribution to the bottom line. To download this white paper, please complete the following form.

"Riteway Sales and Marketing, who helps many Southeastern supermarkets execute marketing strategies, needed an intuitive solution to visualize data in multiple ways, including geographic coding that could map gathered data to store locations. TIBCO® Spotfire® for Amazon Web Services cloud met their requirements and exceeded them. After deploying this solution, Riteway’s Director of Insights and Marketing, Elisa Westlund, claimed that their time-to-insight rose to 93% faster than it was before using it. When analyzing a product category, they found that what used to take a week for their team to accomplish could now be completed in only hours. Download this case study to learn more about TIBCO Spotfire’s benefits, including: • Riteway’s claim of time-to-insight that rose 93% faster than before using TIBCO Spotfire • A complete return on investment in just one year • 100% adoption among their business users, due to TIBCO Spotfire’s ease of use"

Managing your data can be a challenge, but establishing an analytics solution that every user can navigate, regardless of skillset, is where organizations often need help. TIBCO® Spotfire® features AI-driven data visualizations and dashboards, which helps enables each organizational role to discover and deliver valuable insights with ease. Riteway Sales and Marketing, which helps many Southeastern supermarkets execute strategies, leveraged the power of TIBCO Spotfire to better understand individual product performance throughout their stores, achieving exponentially faster time to insight than their previous solution allowed. Watch this on-demand webinar to learn how TIBCO Spotfire, when leveraged on Amazon Web Services cloud, can help you generate deep insights in minutes. You’ll learn: • How to generate relevant, actionable insights from any data, anywhere • Some of the best practices for leveraging AI-driven visual and predictive analytics solutions in the cloud • How to

Live Chat software can help you to increase online sales conversions and customer service productivity - if you use it correctly. To maximize your live chat ROI it's important to select the right live chat vendor. This PDF provides some essential tips that you should consider in making the best selection.

Product recommendations are a proven way for marketers to drive sales, boosting the revenue potential of every shopping experience and increasing customer engagement overall. However, most current recommendations tools have not kept up with the level of personalization that customers have come to expect, and they often fall short of the precision that marketing teams need to create meaningful business impact. It may be time to reevaluate whether your solution is doing all it can to meet the needs of your customers and your team.