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The Forrester Wave™: Customer Service Solutions, Q1 2024 — Key Learnings

Kate Leggett 5 days ago
Great customer service sets companies apart, and you leave money on the table if you don’t meet your customers’ expectations of engagement. Business and IT leaders understand the economics of great customer service, and Forrester data shows that over 70% of enterprises invest in modern solutions. They enable organizations to serve and retain customers and […]
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Push Forward To Become An Intelligent Enterprise That Delivers Real Business Value

Kate Leggett 5 days ago
Learn the four biggest challenges enterprise business applications can mitigate to fast-path your intelligent enterprise technology strategy.
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How GenAI Will Reshape CRM’s Value

Kate Leggett October 6, 2023
GenAI in CRM will make your front office more productive, help deliver better customer experiences, and unlock new revenue opportunities. Learn more in this post.
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It’s Not You, It’s Me: What It Really Means When Budget Is The Reason For The Breakup

Shari Srebnick September 5, 2023
Despite what customers may tell you, budget is often not the real reason why they’ve decided not to renew.
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Salesforce To Raise Prices An Average Of 9% Next Month

Liz Herbert July 11, 2023
Salesforce announced today that it will be increasing pricing an average of 9% starting in August. The pricing affects the Sales, Service, and Marketing Clouds as well as Industries (e.g., Financial Services Cloud) and Tableau. Much of its current (pre-increase) pricing can be found on its website (e.g., Sales Cloud pricing). The new pricing will […]
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Introducing The Financial Services CRM Landscape, Q2 2023

Kate Leggett June 14, 2023
Industry CRM is a clear choice in economic downturns for companies that are looking to get sustainable value from their tech investments. Our data at Forrester backs this up: Industry solutions grow at a compounded annual growth rate of 13.9%, a rate faster than horizontal customer experience tech. At Forrester, we see financial services firms […]
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How To Reduce Tech Debt In Your CRM Operations

Kate Leggett May 3, 2023
Uncover how to reduce tech debt in your CRM operations by understanding your CRM footprint, the CRM vendor landscape, and mapping a strategy to business outcomes.
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Industry CRM Is A Clear Choice In Economic Downturns

Kate Leggett May 1, 2023
Companies must make decisions to modernize while navigating a challenging economic climate. They must balance the need for speed and agility against cost pressures. They must balance the need to better serve customers against pressures to reduce headcount. Forrester sees more companies turning to industry CRM to help manage these journeys. Our data backs this […]
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Invest In A Cross-Channel Marketing Hub To Elevate Your Campaign Strategy

Rusty Warner March 21, 2023
Empowered customers expect seamless cross-channel experiences. B2C marketers must understand customers and create value exchanges in their individual moments of need. That’s a tough job if your martech ecosystem is overly complex or badly integrated — or both. A cross-channel marketing hub (CCMH) can help marketers overcome data and channel integration complexity to consistently engage […]
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Forrester Focuses The Lens On Industry-Specific CRM Solutions

Kate Leggett December 22, 2022
Enterprises are rapidly adopting industry-specific CRM. They are leaning into the promises to speed transitions to the cloud, to modernize the front office, and to enable enterprises to focus talent on creating brand differentiation. According to data and analytics decision-makers at enterprises from Forrester’s Data And Analytics Survey, 2022, the business priorities most frequently identified […]
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We Have Liftoff! Effective Customer Onboarding Is The Launchpad To Customer Value

Shari Srebnick December 13, 2022
Customer onboarding is critical for successful adoption, revenue retention, and growth.
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Unlock Loyalty Throughout The Customer Lifecycle

Mary Pilecki November 17, 2022
Loyalty marketers, the scope of your job just expanded. And before you panic, it’s a good thing. Loyalty marketers have conventionally focused their efforts on customers post-purchase: increasing customer retention, enrichment, and advocacy. But brands and customers alike have faced unprecedented challenges over the last few years, including a pandemic, supply chain issues, and social […]
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Poor Change Management Kills CRM Success — Here Is How To Get It Right

Kate Leggett October 3, 2022
Ready to give up on your CRM deployment? Before you do, you should know: CRM is a huge market. It is valued at $63.91 billion today and projected to grow to $145.79 billion by 2029, at a CAGR of 12.5%. Eighty-two percent of enterprises use CRM. Yet when I surveyed hundreds of business and IT […]
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Clean Up Your Martech And Loyalty Tech Ecosystem

Mary Pilecki October 3, 2022
We all know that there is a big difference between working hard and working smart. And specifically for marketers, the status quo often makes working smart impossible — functional silos inhibit internal efficiencies and negatively impact the overall customer experience. Some of today’s biggest marketing silos are technology-based — different platforms for different functions. Let’s […]
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Announcing The CRM Forrester Wave™ Evaluations — And How To Use Them

Kate Leggett August 7, 2022
The global customer relationship management market is projected to grow from $63.91 billion in 2022 to $145.79 billion by 2029, at a CAGR of 12.5%. This second wave that CRM is experiencing is aimed at transforming engagement and business outcomes across an enterprise, surpassing its initial remit of increasing front-office productivity. Companies use CRM to […]
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Picking An Agency To Maximize The Value Of Your First-Party Data

Stephanie Liu June 27, 2022
For B2C marketers, first-party data is a lot like “Zoolander’s” Hansel: “so hot right now.” Facing massive headwinds amid data deprecation, marketers want to capture zero- and first-party data from customers and build direct relationships. In Forrester’s Q1 B2C Marketing CMO Pulse Survey, 2022, a whopping 76% of B2C marketing respondents said that they are […]
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Industry CRM: A Cocreation Opportunity For Vendors And Their Partners

Kate Leggett May 17, 2022
More and more enterprises are opting for industry CRM solutions over its horizontal counterpart. These new solutions offer a vehicle for closer, more intentional relationships with the vendor's partners. This blog explores the top four benefits, as heard from the CRM vendors we spoke with.
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What’s Next For Customer Loyalty?

What It Means April 7, 2022
Customer loyalty is not a new concept, but a confluence of trends has increased the emphasis that brands are placing on it. In this episode, VP and Principal Analyst Mary Pilecki dives into these trends and provides a sneak preview of new research that will be unveiled at CX North America.
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Three Things Tech Executives Should Know Right Now About CRM

Kate Leggett March 24, 2022
CRM is a foundational front-office technology. Enterprises originally used CRM to provide operational efficiencies for sales, marketing, and customer service organizations. Today, CRM is undergoing a second wave of adoption, where it’s used more broadly to support customers through their end-to-end journeys. The city of Los Angeles used CRM to get emergency aid — $36 […]
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Use Forrester’s Framework To Understand The CRM Landscape

Kate Leggett February 17, 2022
We all know that CRM today is not a singular technology. It’s a collection of discrete, composable technologies that cover a huge swath of capabilities for the front office — capabilities that depend on how complex your deployment is and the needs of your specific industry — yet irrespective of the characteristics of your organization, […]
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