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Building emotional loyalty with customers and employees might be the secret to long-term business success. One way a brand can measure emotional loyalty is to use tools such as customer analytics, which measures customer sentiment.

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CloudWorld Reevaluated

CloudWorld was a show about the stack and infrastructure, from databases to cloud data centers, as well as the platforms. It was designed to say that Oracle has the goods to support global business with minimal technical debt.

How do they do this? That's all I want to know. On Tuesday at CloudWorld, Oracle introduced MySQL HeatWave Lakehouse, which it says offers 17-fold faster query performance against Snowflake and 6-fold faster than Redshift on a 400 TB workload.

Oracle Alloy Debut

With Oracle Alloy, service providers, integrators, and ISVs working with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) can keep workloads in-country and operate clouds independently -- innovating and customizing as the need arises and taking advantage of new opportunities.

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Oracle CloudWorld Kicks Off

CloudWorld, Oracle's rebranded user conference, kicks off this week in Las Vegas. The venue change during Covid also changed the vibe of the conference that once dominated San Francisco, but it's for the best.

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5 Ways To Boost CRM Adoption in 2022

How can you maximize adoption from the very start of your CRM rollout? Here are Zoho's top tips, based on more than a quarter of a century of experience.

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Dreamforce Goes Back to the Future

Salesforce is reinventing itself. Again. It’s been a long time arriving, but Salesforce is changing by doing its best to change the economy and the ground rules business has been operating under since Milton Friedman’s heyday.

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Implementation of a New CRM Should Be Easy

What’s the best way to ensure your investment in a new CRM pays off? For a start, the CRM you choose should consist of applications and functions which have been designed from the ground up to work together.

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The Salesforce Way

The company with a radically different product strategy, and a business model that included all stakeholders, continues to do well and to teach those of us willing to learn how business can be done better in the twenty-first century.

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Oracle Is Signaling

The idea of layoffs might be disconcerting for some. Others might wonder about the acuity of decision making in Redwood Shores or Austin or wherever Oracle does its thinking these days. But there’s a certain logic to it.

The Handwrytten app is part of an automated CRM tool that lets businesses — and individuals with an entrepreneurial passion — integrate computerized automation with personalized handwritten notes to customers. The result is a novel approach to updating one of marketing’s best-known strategies ...

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Oracle’s ‘Box of Chocolates’

Oracle's acquisition of health IT company Cerner could turn out to be pure genius. But right now, I see a Gumpian box of chocolates, and what I notice acutely are the missing jobs and resources in CX.

Monday Sales CRM is built on the company’s flexible low-code/no-code framework and is a fully customizable tool that can be implemented within minutes.

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How To Build the Most Effective Customer Journey

Using data from your CRM and other sources, you can optimize your customer journey, reducing leakage, cutting bounce rates, increasing satisfaction and boosting conversion rates. Here are Zoho’s top tips for effective customer-journey planning and optimization.

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