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How to track and improve your Data Fitness Index™

Last week, we announced Data Fitness Index™ to help our customers easily assess the quality and usability of their cross-functional data.  We built it (1) because we believe that continuous measurement of cross-functional data quality is imperative to unlocking more…

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Leaders

“Fix Bad Data And You Can’t Count The Money Fast Enough”: Advice From Renowned Data Expert Tom Redman

If you’re wondering how to rescue your company from bad data, just ask Tom Redman. He wrote the book on data—literally. He’s published five books on the topic, including the beloved classic, Data Driven. With over 40 years of experience…

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Introducing Data Fitness Index™: Better Data Quality is on the Way

“Garbage in, Garbage out”  The phrase was first made popular in the early days of computing, but has become even more applicable today. The modern surplus of technology provides access to large amounts of data, but few resources to govern…

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“Revenue Leaders Need To Soften The Hyperfocus”: A Conversation With NextGen Venture Partners’ Ben Bayat

On November 4, 2020, Emily Harrington became the first female climber to scale El Capitan in under 24 hours. As she achieved this record-breaking feat, she repeated a mantra to herself: “Slow is smooth. Smooth is fast.” According to Ben…

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Leaders

Overworked Operations Leader? You May Benefit From “Ops Therapy,” says Clari’s Head of Revenue Operations Rosalyn Santa Elena

You’ve heard of talk therapy, but what about Ops therapy? Rosalyn Santa Elena, Head of Revenue Operations at Clari maintains it’s essential. Because the life of an operations leader is one fraught with chaos. Last minute fire drills. Tech providers…

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“Stage A Data Intervention”: Aubrey Morgan On The New Imperative For Marketing Operations

Ask any marketing operations professional the bane of their existence and they will tell you: bad data. It’s the insidious source of countless pains—hours spent meticulously scrubbing lists, embarrassing email blunders, and campaign reporting that nobody can seem to agree…

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Strategy

Salesforce Shouldn’t Be Your Single Source of Truth – Top Reasons Why

The Dreamforce 2020 keynote has come and gone. While there were some surprises, the top-level narrative was consistent with years past: You need a single view of your customer / Customer 360 

Leaders

“Move Over Old School CFOs”: An Interview With Peter Perrone, AtScale’s Remarkably Data-Driven CFO

Some skill sets age like a fine wine. Others spoil like a carton of milk. If the past decade has been any indication, the role of the chief financial officer (CFO) falls into the latter category. According to a study…

Leaders

From Fine Arts To Fine-Tuning Dashboards: A Conversation With Interimly’s Andrea Wildt

Before she founded the category-creating attribution software Full Circle Insights and before she was CMO at Campaign Monitor, Andrea Wildt was a print-maker. She spent her days designing and transferring intricate patterns onto silk, paper, and wood. It was exactly…

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Strategy

It’s official, we’ve hit SaaS connector overload

Every day I see another SaaS app go ‘must-have’ viral and I wonder how long the center can hold. When the average midsize startup uses 123 SaaS tools (enterprises use thousands) and 78 percent of organizations are increasing their spend…

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How To Preserve Your Data Quality (And Your Sanity) Through A Merger, According To A Revenue Leader Who Aced One

Amy Palmer’s path to marketing leadership was an unconventional one. After four years investigating police misconduct in NYC, she did a stint as a manuscript editor and earned a master’s degree in anthropology before transitioning into demand generation marketing. Today…

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Meet Cristina Saunders, A Woman On a Mission To Elevate MOPs From ‘Firefighter’ To ‘Strategic Firepower’

As co-founder of CS2, one of Silicon Valley’s top marketing agencies, Cristina Saunders has seen a lot of data ecosystems—from the ultra-sophisticated to the downright chaotic. She has amassed deep wisdom about how to architect a tech stack the right…

Leaders

“Marie Kondo your database”: Jon Miller On Why Bad Data Is Killing Your ABM

By Nick Bonfiglio As a co-founder of Marketo, Jon Miller was at the helm of the demand generation revolution, arming marketers with the power to send the right message to the right people at the right time. He played an…

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Syncari Announces $6.5M Seed and New Board Members, Including Former Founder of MuleSoft

Syncari well-poised to lead the new data automation market SAN FRANCISCO, June 16, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — This month, Syncari announced that it has raised $6.5M in total seed funding, led by SignalFire. This infusion of additional capital allows Syncari to accelerate its customer acquisition plans and bolster its board with two veterans, Ilya…

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Nick and Neelesh Discuss Syncari Origins

In this episode of Taking Notes with NextGen, host and Managing Partner Dan Mindus speaks with Nick Bonfiglio and Neelesh Shastry, Co-Founders of NextGen portfolio company Syncari. Syncari is building a modern multidirectional stateful synchronization and data management platform to…

Strategy

How not to let your infrastructure run you

Controversial opinion: The biggest thing standing in the way of most CTOs’ success is the impulse to build their own infrastructure. In the past, engineering teams had little choice but to build tools—because there weren’t any better options available. Before…

Strategy

The catastrophic cost of bad data and where it’s all headed (Part 5 of 5)

30% of new integration projects will use AI technology for faster delivery by 2022. — Gartner   This is part 5 of my 5-part series about the cost of bad data. Read the previous post here. The Syncari solution Let…

Strategy

The catastrophic cost of bad data and where it’s all headed (Part 4 of 5)

“What I want is to make sure that good data isn’t corrupted by bad data from a system that has no right updating that field.” — Rob Zare The need for a smarter sync Every company that relies on data…