About the Analyst
Mark Smith
Mark is responsible for the overall direction of Ventana Research and drives the global research agenda covering both business and technology areas. He defined the blueprint for Information Management and Performance Management as the linking together of people, processes, information and technology across organizations to drive effective results. Mark is an expert in technology for business from Performance Management, Business Intelligence, Analytics to Information Management across finance, operations and IT. Mark has held CMO, product development and research roles at companies such as SAP, META Group, Oracle and IRI Software. He has experience across major industries including banking, consumer products, food and beverage, insurance, manufacturing, pharmaceutical and retail and consumer services.
Strategic planning has always been difficult. But it is even more so in this age of rapid digital transformation and the pressure of business continuity, which has introduced disruptive changes. What’s needed, ironically, is a methodical approach to how an organization manages strategic planning to allow for beneficial disruption that is not avoidable, balancing finance and operations, engaging existing expertise and factoring in technology to ensure that new initiatives can be strategically...
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Topics:
Performance Management,
Business Continuity,
Digital transformation,
Digital Business,
Digital Security,
Digital Communications,
Experience Management
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 goal is to recognize technology and vendors that have introduced noteworthy digital innovations to advance business and IT.
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Topics:
Customer Experience,
Analytics,
Internet of Things,
Digital Technology,
blockchain,
natural language processing,
Awards,
Conversational Computing,
collaborative computing,
mobile computing,
extended reality,
AI and Machine Learning
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 goal is to recognize technology and vendors that have introduced noteworthy digital innovations to advance business and IT.
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Topics:
Continuous Planning,
Analytics,
Product Information Management,
Price and Revenue Management,
Digital Technology,
Operations & Supply Chain,
Enterprise Resource Planning,
Conversational Computing,
collaborative computing,
continuous supply chain,
work experience management,
AI and Machine Learning
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 goal is to recognize technology and vendors that have introduced noteworthy digital innovations to advance business and IT.
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Topics:
Customer Experience,
Human Capital Management,
Marketing,
Office of Finance,
Operations & Supply Chain,
Digital Business,
Work Management
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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Topics:
Marketing,
Data Governance,
Data,
Product Information Management,
Price and Revenue Management,
Digital Commerce,
Operations & Supply Chain,
Enterprise Resource Planning,
continuous supply chain,
Office of Sales,
data operations
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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Topics:
Marketing,
Data Governance,
Data,
Product Information Management,
Price and Revenue Management,
Digital Commerce,
Operations & Supply Chain,
Enterprise Resource Planning,
continuous supply chain,
Office of Sales,
data operations
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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Topics:
Marketing,
Data Governance,
Data,
Product Information Management,
Price and Revenue Management,
Digital Commerce,
Operations & Supply Chain,
Enterprise Resource Planning,
continuous supply chain,
Office of Sales,
data operations
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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Topics:
Marketing,
Data Governance,
Data,
Product Information Management,
Price and Revenue Management,
Digital Commerce,
Operations & Supply Chain,
Enterprise Resource Planning,
continuous supply chain,
Office of Sales,
data operations
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 goal is to recognize technology and vendors that have introduced noteworthy digital innovations to advance business and IT.
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Topics:
Customer Experience,
Human Capital Management,
Marketing,
Office of Finance,
Voice of the Customer,
Continuous Planning,
embedded analytics,
Learning Management,
Analytics,
Business Intelligence,
Collaboration,
Data Governance,
Data Preparation,
Information Management,
Internet of Things,
Business Planning,
Contact Center,
Data,
Product Information Management,
Sales Performance Management,
Workforce Management,
Financial Performance Management,
Price and Revenue Management,
Digital Technology,
Digital Marketing,
Digital Commerce,
Operations & Supply Chain,
Enterprise Resource Planning,
ERP and Continuous Accounting,
Revenue,
blockchain,
natural language processing,
data lakes,
Total Compensation Management,
robotic finance,
Predictive Planning,
employee experience,
candidate engagement,
Conversational Computing,
Continuous Payroll,
collaborative computing,
mobile computing,
continuous supply chain,
Subscription Management,
agent management,
extended reality,
intelligent marketing,
sales enablement,
work experience management,
lease and tax accounting,
robotic automation,
AI and Machine Learning
