Anthony McPartlin

The Forrester Wave™: Revenue Orchestration Platforms For B2B, Q3 2024, provides a comprehensive market evaluation of the ROP category, highlighting how these platforms integrate sales engagement, conversation intelligence, and revenue operations to enhance frontline productivity and buyer interactions through AI capabilities.

In the world of revenue technology, three distinct categories have converged to form a new supergroup of revtech capabilities. Learn more about revenue orchestration platforms in this preview of a new report.

Beware of these functional design and implementation pitfalls that could derail your long-term efforts.

Across B2B, organizations are often overreliant on org design to drive change. Revenue operations (RevOps) implementation discussions are filled with questions of centralization, decentralization, or centers of excellence. But structures are just one lever of change. Structure tells you nothing about which customers or stakeholders to support and prioritize, the offerings that you should provide, […]

This blog covers the impact that Mediafly and Apollo’s recent funding will have on the two firms, the sales technology market, and buyers of sales technology.

Clari’s acqusition of Groove cements the convergence happening at the core of sales tech and is a milestone for the market.

This blog provides an overview of what generative AI is — and what it is not — for B2B sales organizations.

Despite heavy investment in tech, many B2B organizations struggle to show related business impact due to implementation, integration, and adoption issues. It’s time for revenue technology management to be elevated as a strategic capability to drive sustainable business value from tech.

B2B organisations face a range of macroeconomic uncertainties as they head into the second half of 2022 that pose risk to growth and profitability objectives. While you may not have control over these changing conditions, you can determine your own path through them to ensure that you thrive rather than just survive. Forrester’s B2B Summit […]

As the pandemic ramped up demand for tech to support new modes of interaction, billions of dollars of investment poured into sales tech startups. Now, a combination of macroeconomic and political factors is having a cooling effect.

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If there is one go-to-market tech category that generates significant confusion amongst buyers and even providers, it's revenue operations and intelligence (RO&I). Fortunately our first New Tech report on the category has just dropped with the explicit goal of removing the ambiguity around this category. Here its author Anthony McPartlin, provides some highlights.

To enable commercial optimization, revenue operations leaders must become change agents for a shift in mindset through four fundamental values.

How do sales leaders, sales operations, and sales enablement practitioners navigate their way through an increasingly crowded technology space?

• The Forrester SiriusDecisions Summit EMEA virtual event will be held October 6–7
• This year’s event is an integrated and immersive virtual experience that brings together live presentations, discussion, and analyst meetups
• We preview some of the sales-related topics that will be covered at the 2020 Summit EMEA sessions

• Join us in Palo Alto on November 6th, Atlanta on November 12th and Boston on November 14th for our revenue operations roadshows
  
• Attendees will learn strategies on how to define, integrate and execute revenue operations
  
• SiriusDecisions’ new survey on revenue operations will identify new insights into how companies are integrating sales, marketing and customer operations
  

• Different object types (leads and opportunities) in sales force automation systems present a compatibility problem that hurts conversion rates, impedes functional alignment and expands sales cycle times
  
• It’s time to leave leads behind and use opportunities to manage prospects right through the revenue journey
  
• Using opportunities drives alignment by providing one vehicle to capture all information about the buying group and the related information and insights

• Step back from day-to-day execution for three days of career development, future trends and the latest thought leadership on sales operations
• Learn where the future of sales operations lies and why revenue operations is key to it
• Build your professional network of like-minded sales ops leaders and share ideas, problems and opportunities