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WATCH: How Marketplaces Are Disrupting B2B Tech Buying And Selling

Forrester IT

Yet in the enterprise IT world, they have developed with fits and starts. But growing frustration with outdated sales processes (and channels) and shifting buyer preferences are creating a perfect storm for B2B marketplaces to come into their own and disrupt large […]. The idea of online marketplaces is not new.

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Summit 2020: Selling On B2B Marketplaces

Forrester IT

Online marketplaces offer advantages to B2B sellers. Yet success requires a thoughtful approach. Read a few of the key questions to consider in this Forrester SiriusDecisions Summit session preview.

B2B 301
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Shopify Buys Handshake To Boost B2B Commerce Chops

Forrester IT

Shopify is widely known as a B2C/DTC platform, and its Shopify Plus offering is aimed at a B2B audience. Handshake brings Shopify a more advanced set of B2B capabilities. Handshake was listed in “The Forrester Wave™: B2B Commerce Suites For Midsize […]. How advanced?

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B2B growth is coming, but how can CSPs capture it?

TM Forum

According to a recent TM Forum report for telco growth, more than 50% of surveyed (communications service providers) CSPs are optimistic about the growth of B2B revenues in the next five years. Take China, where 5G is developing rapidly, as an example. As a result, new B2B services may become their new investment focus in the future.

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Hotel Chains Demonstrate Common B2B eCommerce Website Blunders

Forrester IT

B2B eCommerce sites should help business shoppers balance price with value, which is a nuanced combination of many factors, not a series of binary choices. Why do hotel web sites fail to support business travellers' customer journeys, in both the digital and physical sense?

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The B2B Analytics Portfolio: Untapped Competencies To Develop Now

Forrester IT

This past year, I attended Forrester’s Data Strategy & Insights 2018 Forum. As I sat down to breakfast on the first day, I joined two attendees from a multinational package delivery and supply chain management company. During our conversation, they commented that they felt “behind” other attendees in terms of their analytics prowess.

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Getting a foothold in the 5G applications ecosystem

TM Forum

Application developers have a critical role to play in generating innovative uses of 5G networks, as T-Mobile in the US made clear with its recent. Application developers have a critical role to play in generating innovative uses of 5G networks, as T-Mobile in the US made clear with its recent. acquisition of Robin.io.