A Buyer’s Guide to Incentive Compensation Management Software
Spreadsheets and inflexible legacy compensation management systems are a roadblock. Despite the opportunity, much of sales compensation is still dependent on spreadsheets, even though 90% typically contain hidden errors. Even organizations running traditional Incentive Compensation Management (ICM) and Sales Performance Management (SPM) systems still heavily rely on spreadsheets, due to the inflexibility of these legacy apps. Yet spreadsheets and their associated problems can have a painful impact.
Errors damage sales trust. Sales ends up wasting time in “shadow-accounting” (doublechecking their commissions). This often leads to poorly designed compensation models that result in lop-sided over-attainment or SPIFs that don’t drive ROI on spend. It’s why organizations are reexamining their sales comp systems and processes—whether moving from spreadsheets or re-evaluating the ease of use and flexibility of their existing sales comp software. One leading industry analyst predicts that by 2022 nearly half of B2B companies with more than 100-employees will deploy new solutions to tackle the problem of managing and automating sales comp.
What You Will Learn in this Guide:
1) How to ensure data flows and transformations don’t jeopardize comp
automation
2) What to look for in a compensation plan builder so you don’t run out of runway
3) Which comp and payee workflows are essential - and common mistakes to avoid
4) The key questions to ask around reporting and analytics
5) Why many ICM solutions are so hard to use
6) How to ensure you won’t be left high and dry with service and support
Penetration Testing: Protecting Your Company the Right Way
Just as doctors must probe their patients to uncover hidden maladies or diseases, so too must companies probe their networks, systems, applications, and web assets to uncover weaknesses subject to possible hacking. The practice is called Penetration Testing, or pen testing for short. As with all issues relating to security, there are optimal ways of conduct pen tests and less than ideal ways.
This article addresses:
- The scope of cybercrime and other issues requiring rigorous pen testing
- Types of pen tests
- Expectations and responsibilities of pen testers
- Generally accepted best practices for pen testing
- Top tools to assist with pen testing
- Considerations for performing pen testing by internal staff or an outsourced firm
The IT Leadership Playbook
Regardless of what’s on your business card, you’re the coach of your IT team. Your team is looking to you for a game plan and your organization’s leadership is looking for results.
Just like a sports team, your IT team has generalists and specialists, rookies and veterans. How do you meet the needs of all of these players? How do you help them achieve their goals?
It’s up to you to field an effective team every day and anticipate the future needs of your organization… all while IT unemployment is at an all-time low.
Welcome to the IT leadership playbook. Finally, you’ve got a resource to help you achieve a winning record.
The IT Training Buyer’s Guide & Checklist
The shift to digital learning for IT professionals has been underway for years, and it has only accelerated as IT teams have adapted to working from home during the forced Coronavirus lockdown. As the demand for online and distance learning options has grown, the IT training landscape has expanded. Luckily for business owners and tech leaders, there was already a robust marketplace for IT training options to fit the needs of remote teams.
Digital learning platforms provide a number of advantages for businesses looking to keep their staff trained and certified, but it’s important to choose a program that is right for your team’s needs. With a range of price, quality, and curricula, leaders should carefully consider a number of factors when selecting an IT training partner.
As your teams continue to adapt to new challenges for work and learning, use this guide to determine how to best support your teams with online IT training and certification.In this Guide, you will learn
- Why Online Training is a Fit for IT Teams
- The Features Your Teams Want
- Tools for Leaders and Managers
- How to Choose the Vendor for You
- Get Your Selection Checklist
Pricing Guide Virtual Event Platform Software
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Building resilience into manufacturing in a disruptive world
Manufacturing operations are continually grappling with the uncertainties and rapid changes across the business landscape—factors and events well beyond their control. This has been true for years and is now even more acute with a pandemic causing wild swings in supply and demand.
Smart application of the latest technology can help operations anticipate and adapt with more agility, but many manufacturers have been slow to fully embrace digital transformation, still relying on familiar but inefficient devices such as analog clipboards. The right partners can provide manufacturing operations with:
- Insights, technologies, and innovative solutions to help digitally transform more quickly with less risk and an increase in return on digital investments.
- Integrated and standard ways of working for sustainable operational excellence.
- Online services that help build and sustain capability and empower people.
- Off-the-shelf use cases that have been tried and tested.
- Point solutions to address critical shop-floor challenges.
- Practical applications of digital technologies focused on creating immediate value.
Read the e-book Greater Resilience and Higher Performance for Manufacturers: Accelerating Digital Transformation with EY Smart Factory to see how having the right partners can give you the operational resilience to thrive in today’s disruptive business environment.
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Pricing Guide Supply Chain Management Software
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The Benefits of Printer Pods and Desktop Printers
The world is changing, and as a result, there will be an impact on the way we live and work.
This infographic with Brother explores detailed solutions to reduce contact between colleagues, respect social distancing, and improve productivity in the workspace.
Thinking Beyond Product Specs: What should your business be looking for in document imaging equipment?
As our workplace is shifting employee expectations for the workplace are shifting employee expectations for the workplace, now is the time for businesses to consider updating their print environment.
A recent IDC Vendor Spotlight, “As the Workplace Evolves, How Will Printers and MFPs Stay Relevant?”, sponsored by Brother, highlights six trends that businesses should factor into their buying decisions when considering document and imaging equipment:
- Declining Needs for A3 Devices
- Print Security
- Workflow Customization
- Mobility and Cloud
- Document Management and Compliance
- Support for End Users and Channel Partners
As the Workplace Evolves, How Will Printers and MFPs Stay Relevant?
As companies adapt to the challenges of work-from-home and mobile environments, printing trends are changing – from an increased investment in cloud services to a growing need for secure scanning and software solutions.
In addition to playing an essential role in daily business functions, including printing, scanning, and faxing, the print industry has had to adapt to the growing demand for mobile resources, cloud services and emerging technologies. With over a trillion pages being printed across the country every year, it’s essential that companies stay aware of printing trends that can impact their business.
But which printing trends will best benefit YOUR business?
Download the IDC Vendor Spotlight to learn:
- How to determine which tools you really need
- What evolving printing trends mean for businesses
- Which printer and MFP options will keep you ahead of the curve
- Advanced security, reliability, and productivity-enhancing features that are making an impact
- How Brother can help you make the most of new technology
Total Cost of Ownership for Printers, Scanners & Multifunction Solutions in the K-12 Learning Environment
Most K-12 technology leaders and administrators will tell you that their technology needs are growing...and their budget is either falling flat or growing smaller.
This tip sheet from Brother can give you some quick steps to consider and resources to tap into if you determine the need for an assessment to help control costs when planning for future purchases and system-wide upgrades.
Eliminate Friction in Design Collaboration
Traditional tools of the engineering trade don’t accommodate today’s need for cross-team collaboration. From using different mechanical computer-aided design (MCAD) applications to working on projects with stakeholders located all over the world, engineers have to overcome various obstacles to get the job done. Learn how technology can help streamline communications and collaboration, ultimately setting up your team for success.
Cosine Additive
When he co-founded Cosine Additive Inc. to design a 3D printer that could be economically competitive with traditional manufacturing methods, CTO Andrew McCalip had one design platform in mind. “I’ve always preferred SOLIDWORKS because it’s the most modern package and supports an intuitive, common-sense approach to design,” he says. Learn more. Read the case study.
The How-To Guide for Changing CAD Tools
When competing in today’s global economy, investments in the design process can help companies quickly develop high-quality, innovative products more economically—helping them stand out from the competition. This white paper explores what is driving companies to change CAD tools and what successful companies are looking for when purchasing a new CAD tool.
Pricing Guide Project Management Software
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