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Recent Aberdeen research on Configure/Price/Quote solutions helps sales operations practitioners reduce the friction at the end of the B2B sales cycle. If you are implementing a CPQ deployment, make sure you get your money's worth by supporting it with these best practices.

As buyers have become increasingly more savvy and better-educated, B2B sales organizations have changed their strategies. But that can’t happen in a vacuum – sales training must change as well. This brief provides specific ways to improve both the training content delivered to sales reps and the all-important methods for delivering that content. With this actionable information, managers and trainers can begin enacting real change that gets reps more conversation-ready than ever before. Get your copy of this latest brief today. And ready your sales force for better opportunities and more wins.

It’s clear that sales enablement is widely recognized as a critical B2B function, with the number of dedicated sales enablement roles more than doubling over the past three years. But such an important job can become overwhelming without the right solution in place. You know technology is the key to ensuring maximum effectiveness. But how do you convince the decision maker and other key stakeholders to get on board with the investment? In this exclusive brief, you’ll learn 6 tips to help prepare and present your business case for sales enablement technology

In the world of B2B sales, it’s difficult to stand out from your competitors. Take a more strategic, targeted approach with account-based selling. It’s about being hyperfocused on the organizations that your company can help the most. It’s like fishing with a spear rather than a net.

In this brief, we describe integrated CPQ applications and their potential benefits.

In this brief, we differentiate between SCM and SPM, and outline the components required to accelerate the performance of b-to-b sales teams.

Engaging potential buyers in today’s complex and noisy B2B environment demands time, effort, and intelligence. All sellers can do is hope to guide them along their journey and influence their decisions. But even the best prospects are delaying interaction with sales and are often unresponsive to traditional marketing tactics. This is forcing organisations to use relevant, timely, and holistic data to guide interactions and communications across all channels.

This report presents new research into the use and benefits of IAM and the relationship it has with these three drivers. The research is based on over three hundred interviews with senior IT managers in medium sized to large organisations in a range of business sectors across Europe. The report should be of interest to anyone wanting to better serve all types of users, whilst still keeping control over applications and data.

OVERVIEW: THE STATE OF B2B CONTENT MARKETING IN NORTH AMERICA

It's true that deploying B2B e-commerce platform involves many unique requirements not commonly found in B2C operations, such as incorporating a complex product port-folio, multiple distribution channels, and integrating with third party systems And yet, it's possible to complete an initial out-of-the-box B2B implementation within three months, if all the right critical path steps are followed. Additional features and functionality can be added after the initial launch, provided that the chosen out-of-the-box platform is designed to be used over the long run.

Learn the 4 benefits of how highly-trained B2B telemarketers can increase leads and boost sales by providing your sales team with more qualified and actionable leads.

Download your free copy today to learn how marketing and sales can work together to drive revenue through lifelong customer engagement.

Sales enablement has quickly become a core responsibility of B2B content marketing. This exclusive eBook looks at why so many marketers fail to deliver content that reps find truly valuable.

As deal complexity has risen, so too has customers' risk aversion and the number of stakeholders dedicated to a given purchase. The best companies build consensus among diverse groups by tapping into the right values and fostering an environment of collective learning.

The key challenge of B2B selling today: customer purchase processes are overwhelmed by an increasingly large and diverse number of customer stakeholders who can’t reach consensus on a common course of action. Learn how to overcome buyer dysfunction and guide customer to consensus.

Download this comprehensive report as a guide to assess and compare vendor B2B commerce suite solution. Use this report as a foundation for planning your organization's e-commerce objectives.

B2B sales processes are being transformed by buyers who are demanding a more personalized buying experience similar to what they have experienced in their personal shopping. This paper lays out why this transformation should be on the minds of many if not most B2B organizations. This document helps guide relevant stakeholders within Exceed your B2B clients' expectations - emulate the B2C model B2B organizations to develop and execute plans to increase their e-commerce proficiency with the goal of increasing sales, profits, customer retention and customer satisfaction.

Read this white paper to learn how to: - Use B2C best practices to meet buyer expectations for enhanced online experiences - Deliver multiple combinations of products and services for faster, streamlined quoting and ordering - Support complex buying cycles and selling executions across channels and markets—and around the world"

Find out how IBM Configure Price Quote can help make sales of the most complicated configurable products easy.

See how you can bring the best of B2C to your B2B eCommerce site in less than 90 days.

"Business buyers are shopping online as private consumers and they expect the same experience when purchasing business products and services online. While B2B organizations can learn from B2C online retailers in terms of user experience, B2B selling is much more complex. Read this white paper to learn how to: Use B2C best practices to meet buyer expectations for enhanced online experiences Deliver multiple combinations of products and services for faster, streamlined quoting and ordering Support complex buying cycles and selling executions across channels and markets—and around the world"

B2B sales processes are being transformed by buyers who are demanding a more personalized buying experience similar to what they have experienced in their personal shopping. This paper lays out why this transformation should be on the minds of many if not most B2B organizations. This document helps guide relevant stakeholders within Exceed your B2B clients' expectations - emulate the B2C model B2B organizations to develop and execute plans to increase their e-commerce proficiency with the goal of increasing sales, profits, customer retention and customer satisfaction.

Business executives and managers at business-to-business (B2B) enterprises care about time, money, competitive advantage, customer loyalty and growth. Few pay much attention to the vital IT infrastructure that supports transactions and collaboration with trading partners—though that B2B backbone directly affects performance and profitability. In fact, just 26 percent of business managers view B2B integration as a competitive differentiator, according to a study for IBM by Vanson Bourne, a research consultancy. As a result, many enterprises continue to utilize manual and error-prone emails, faxes and file transfers for B2B transactions. Reliance on complex, brittle and antiquated systems to exchange critical data impacts time to market, cost-efficiency and satisfaction across suppliers and end-customers. Modernization of B2B integration in recent years has moved forward in fits and starts, often undermined by competing priorities and misalignment between business and IT managers.

Digital transformation initiatives and the need for innovation are causing enterprises to rethink their IT landscapes including business-to-business (B2B) integration. Modern B2B integration is critical for enabling enterprises to achieve goals like increasing revenue, speeding up time to market, and improving efficiencies because these outcomes are dependent on having a successful business network. B2B practitioners have two goals — enable critical business initiatives and control costs — and cloud-based B2B services have been successful in helping enterprises achieve both goals. IDC interviewed eight IBM clients to understand how their use of IBM Sterling B2B Integration Services, part of the IBM B2B Cloud Services portfolio, has impacted their operations and businesses. Download now to learn more!

Far from being a soft issue, trust underpins the management of your digital business and digital ecosystems. This report highlights how trust is fundamental to your digital transformation. It focuses on the role of trust in the B2B context and analyzes the key technologies, processes, and operational values that CIOs and their teams must use to build and maintain trusted ecosystem partnerships