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Delivering exceptional customer experiences has become a key differentiator for top organizations today. Now you can see where your peers and competitors stand in the new Forbes Insights report Data Elevates the Customer Experience. This report is a comprehensive follow-up to an October 2015 preliminary pulse survey conducted among 105 executives of large global organizations. It identifies three categories of organizations – leaders, explorers and laggards – and measures the progress they have made with the data-driven customer experience based on three key pillars: organization (people), openness (data) and orchestration (processes). Read the results, find out where you stand and glean some new ideas from your peers about how to elevate the customer experience.

Innovators are adopting an all flash/flash first stance for their primary storage and workloads, while almost a quarter of Laggards don’t even have an explicit flash strategy. Read this white paper from Intel® about unlocking innovations that Shape Society. Learn more about Dell EMC enterprise solutions in collaboration with Intel®.

There are so many opportunities for businesses to collect data that getting a clear picture of all of it can be an uphill battle—and leveraging it for insight can be nearly impossible. But whether you are a start-up or a multinational conglomerate, not taking advantage of the available data is a mistake you cannot risk making. According to a 2016 McKinsey & Company study, over the past three years, digital leaders have achieved revenue growth five times greater, an operating margin profit eight times greater, and a return to shareholder value two times higher than laggards. Companies today need a closed loop system that combines data, insight, and action. Download this paper to learn about the goals of a system of insight (SOI), the common set of technologies that all systems of insight need, and how an SOI can make a difference in your business.

The banking industry has been talking about improving the customer experience with customer-centric banking for a long time. From a recent study of French retail banks, neobanks and online banks are winning the customer experience battle. To retain customers, traditional banks will need to improve their overall customer experience, a key priority as reported in DBR Research’s Digital Banking Report 2018. All three of the top trends for 2018 are related to improving the overall customer experience. Failing to address these key trends will hurt laggards. Just because you have a digital presence doesn't mean your work is done, it just means that you need to continue to innovate to attract and retain your customer base. But what makes for a successful banking customer journey? Read this solution brief to learn the five pillars of success for the banking customer journey.

Cloud, social, big data, and the Internet of Things (IoT) are increasingly central to business decisions as the pace of digitization accelerates. The impact of software-defined networking (SDN), virtualization, and converged and hyperconverged infrastructure within the datacenter is substantial. These technologies add complexity but offer enticing opportunities for new business models, revenue streams, operating efficiencies, and agility that organizations must pursue if they want to remain competitive and viable. This pursuit requires businesses to keep up with current and emerging technologies and applications and transform the ways in which they conduct business. At the core of "keeping up" is an organization's datacenter strategy — with an associated technology and services strategy that will either create industry laggards or accelerate innovators.

As the sheer amount of information available for Business Intelligence (BI) applications has grown, and the sophistication of BI capabilities has accelerated, organizations are striving to improve time-to-information for business users.

Understanding the data you have and put it to effective use is now more crucial than ever. The key differentiator between the leaders and laggards in financial services today is how skillfully they turn data into useful information and fuel success.

Bruce Rogers, Forbes’ Chief Insights Officer, will discuss the key findings from a survey of senior-level IT and data executives on big data and analytics. He will be joined by Matt Ariker from McKinsey and Chris Twogood from Teradata and together they will present the differences between "leaders" and "laggards" when it comes to analytics initiatives and share how organizations can increase their odds of success with big data and analytics.

As information flows more freely in the business world, decisions need to be made quicker and based on sturdier data.

Conductor's research of more than 380 enterprise search marketers and interviews with numerous SEO professionals finally reveals what separates the 'best-in-class' from the 'laggards.' Best-in-class cite early SEO involvement in content, greater maturity in reporting with the use of advanced techniques such as keyword segmentations, data mash-ups and the use of advanced technology in their reporting workflow, and a stronger commitment to organizational evangelism than their laggard colleagues.

Early adopters of an extended 360° view will get competitive advantages over their rivals and this will force laggards to adopt a similar approach or lose business.