The Best CRM Software, Solutions, and Innovators: The 2021 CRM Industry Awards

Our 20th annual awards recognize the vendors that shined the brightest during the past year.

The Best CRM Software and Solutions: The 2021 CRM Industry Leader Awards

Our top five picks in 10 categories point the way forward with the best products and capabilities hitting the market in customer service, marketing, and sales.

Six Top Innovating CRM Companies for 2021: The CRM Conversation Starters

These vendors kept the industry abuzz with products, services, and integrations that add up to innovation in sales, marketing, and customer service.

The Best Marketing Automation Software and Solutions: The 2021 CRM Industry Leader Awards

How Poor Data Quality Leads to Wasted Marketing Dollars

Marketers have become numb to the waste and plow ahead hoping campaigns will yield positive returns. But implementing a unified taxonomy can solve poor data quality and cut down on media buy waste.

Real-Time Signals Real Customer Value: How Marketers Can Implement AI the Right Way

The difference in an AI solution's ability to gauge context in real-time will determine who wins and loses in today's extremely competitive market. With real real-time technology, companies use propensity models to rank and score customer actions to select the next best action for each individual.

Virtual Selling Is Here to Stay: Five Tips for Success

Virtual selling is a whole new style of sales. This realization is prompting chief revenue officers to reframe how they define success and how they support today's seller. To support these efforts, the role of sales technology must also evolve.

How AI-Driven Menu Clustering Can Drive Restaurant Sales

With AI, restaurant and convenience store marketers are turning mountains of loyalty program data into targeted campaigns that engage guests based on their unique behavior. Menu clustering identifies guest behavior from menu engagement and delivers more targeted and ultimately more successful campaigns and promotions.

The Ethics Dilemma of AI for Sales

Artificial intelligence is an important CRM tool, but beware of biases and privacy issues.

Our CRM Industry Awards Turn 20 Amid a World of Change

It was hard not to notice that this year has seen an unusually high number of significant mergers and acquisitions.

Companies Must Compete on Decision Velocity

To those who can make faster, more accurate decisions, time is a friend.

VR/AR: A Game Changer for Sales and Marketing

Virtual reality/augmented reality is poised to remake CX.