How To Get True ROI From Your Account-Based Marketing (ABM)

Account-based marketing, or ABM, is more often used as targeted demand generation—not one-to-one marketing. In a 2020 study of more than 300 organizations worldwide, Forrester found that “a significant number of respondents claimed they were using an ABM approach but weren’t doing what we would consider the basics of ABM, such as working with sales.”1 ABM isn’t just about assigning one siloed team the responsibility of targeting and revealing high-potential prospects.

Operating Apache Kafka with Cruise Control

There are two big gaps in the Apache Kafka project when we think of operating a cluster. The first is monitoring the cluster efficiently and the second is managing failures and changes in the cluster. There are no solutions for these inside the Kafka project but there are many good 3rd party tools for both problems. Cruise Control is one of the earliest open source tools to provide a solution for the failure management problem but lately for the monitoring problem as well.

Streaming Analytics with SQL Stream Builder

SQL Stream Builder, part of Cloudera Streaming Analytics, allows developers, analysts, and data scientists to write streaming applications using industry-standard SQL. It provides an interactive experience, so the development process is quick, easy, and productive while taking advantage of Apache Flink’s streaming power. It provides an advanced materialized view engine to interface with applications, tooling, and services via REST API.

Client Reporting 101: Tips and Best Practices for Agencies and Freelancers

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The Pros and Cons of Application Software Integration

Gartner predicts that by 2023, organizations that promote data sharing will outperform their peers on most business value metrics. According to Debra Logan, Gartner’s Research Vice President, “Data sharing is the way to optimize higher quality data and more robust data and analytics to solve business challenges and goals.” Given these numbers, it is clear that businesses will need to embrace application software integration as a core business strategy.

The 7 Critical Differences Between DynamoDB vs MongoDB:

MongoDB vs DynamoDB: How do you choose between them? Whether you are a two-man team bootstrapping a proof of concept or an established one battling with high throughput and heavy load; this post can serve as a guidepost in your decision process. Before going into the details, a brief history lesson on how these technologies emerged is pertinent; you must understand the optimal conditions for running these systems and how they operate in the wild before making an informed choice.

Use Cases for Reverse ETL

According to Gartner, leading organizations in every industry are wielding data and analytics as competitive weapons. Companies that leverage data as a competitive differentiator will stand the best chance of acting faster on opportunities and responding to threats in a competitive marketplace. The problem is that most companies aren’t aware of the value of their data. As a result, they aren’t leveraging the full potential of their data to make informed decisions.