The 2019 Digital Trends: Advertising in focus report, produced by Econsultancy in partnership with Adobe, explores the key trends in advertising set to dominate the agenda over the next year. This report explores attitudes to technology and innovation, including how advertisers risk losing the balance between creativity and measurement, and the challenge posed by walled gardens that restrict access to data.

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A great demand-side platform (DSP) partner can help you do this. Ensuring that the partner you select will improve rather than aggravate the complexity of the situation is crucial. When selecting a DSP partner it’s too easy to be taken for a ride in the wrong direction, resulting in money being poorly spent or wasted. With our essential DSP checklist, you’ll have the confidence to make the right decision.

The advertising world was once unscalable and manually labor intensive, but with AI, you can transcend your sense of what’s possible. Increase your efficiency, raise your return on ad spend, improve the customer experience, and secure your competitive advantage—all free of the manual processes that hold other advertisers back. With the help of Adobe Sensei across the entire Adobe Advertising Cloud suite, better advertising planning, forecasting, optimization, and experiences are within your reac

The digital tools powering today’s modern businesses make work faster, easier, and more accurate. But there’s still one tool that many companies have yet to adopt – the electronic signature. See how electronic signatures equal big benefits for everyone in your organization. • Business leaders say that improving document processes could yield 23% reduction in business/compliance risk • Research shows a potential 30% reduction in cost and 36% increase in revenue. • 45% of business leaders say departmental productivity would increase • 72% agree that improving document processes would increase customer satisfaction and/or increase brand value.

With the right solution, electronic signatures are cost effective and simple to deploy. Perhaps because they seem so logical in today’s digital world, some organizations tend to overlook e-signatures to reduce costs, improve productivity and mitigate risk. Research and customer experiences show that with e-signatures, organizations can: • Shorten sales cycles from eight days to three hours • Reduce costs by approximately 30% and increase revenue by more that 35% • Significantly improve hiring and onboarding – in some cases, as much as 80% less time to process new hires Here are some of the key reasons why e-signatures are essential to any organization’s move to digital processes.

Electronic signatures can have a dramatic impact on your organization’s digital transformation initiatives, helping to increase productivity, accelerate sales, strengthen collaboration and simplify a wide range of processes across all departments. However to truly leverage e-signatures, you must ensure that your solutions adhere to the most stringent guidelines for security and regulatory compliance. Here are the most important and pertinent questions to ask potential vendors about security.

Digital transformation isn’t just about speeding up manual processes. It’s about improving customer and employee experiences. Adobe Document Cloud for Office 365 that includes Adobe Acrobat DC, Adobe Sign, and PDF services, integrates seamlessly with your existing business applications such as Microsoft Office and SharePoint. With this integration, you can convert paper-based processes to compelling digital experiences that impress customers and help employees work and collaborate faster. See how Adobe can help you accomplish more in less time.

In this Forrester study, interviewees described how they have converted their formerly paper processes into digital processes with Adobe Sign, reducing, among other things, the amount of forms that need to be printed and shipped. Key findings include: • 420% ROI • 125 hours saved per user • 28x faster time to business • Reduced 1.5 hours per transaction of manual signature steps • Cost savings of $6 per transaction on average Overall, the Adobe Sign investment improves the signature experience for internal and external audiences, simplifying these previously manual processes and making it easier and secure to get documents signed.

No matter where they are, your customers expect you to be there too, offering fluid, consistent experiences across channels SUPPORTING CONCEPTS: Customer choices continue to expand - 5.5 million new smart things are connected every day, and by 2020, Gartner predicts there will be 20.8 billion connected things worldwide. 76% of marketers agree that personalization is driving increased need for more assets. 88% of marketers agree that they need an easier way to discover and share assets that generate the best engagement. With a hybrid content and experience solution, Synopsys saw: o A 40% increase in productivity o Reduction from 2 weeks to 2 hours to restructure content WHY SHOULD THE TARGET AUDIENCE CARE? Companies need to transform their businesses to meet the demands of customers in an omnichannel world.

Why data-driven businesses stand out from the crowd. Why Should the Target Audience Care? Enterprises need to become more data-driven by using more mature analytics tools to stand out from the crowd Supporting Concepts Smart, effective customer analytics tools helps organizations reap the rewards of increased customer satisfaction and brand loyalty. Neglecting advances in customer analytics technology could seriously impact a company's ability to compete in the future marketplace. Where do your customers and prospects sit on the customer analyticsmaturity scale? Are they leaders or are they laggards? Read "Customer Analytics: The 20 Attributes that Lead to Business Success" for insights into: • the key drivers needed within an organisation that help grow customer analytics maturity • why companies using paid analytics solutions experience more tangible benefits than those using free analytics • how to distinguish customer analytics leaders from laggards

To achieve personalization at scale, brands need to develop a better understanding of each customer they interact with, and that’s all about combining all the data they collect from every available source into a single cohesive customer view. There is no way they can handle this task or manage all this data manually, which is why data management platforms (DMPs) rose to prominence. Today, companies are looking to build on this single customer view with a real-time understanding of their audience across every digital channel, marking the next phase on the maturity ramp for DMPs.

An excellent CMS solution provides your business with the flexibility to grow into a broad experience delivery platform. It should enable your business to scale and add new capabilities as it grows, and easily integrate with other marketing technologies. Why should the target audience care? Customer expectations have increased. They now expect their in-store experiences to be continuous and consistent extensions of the online journey. And the online journey provides fast, dynamic, and interactive experiences. If your business is not well informed on what is needed from a content management solution, it may come up short on customer experience. A successful and growing business will choose a solution that helps them future-proof for emerging channels and effectively manage mature ones. Supporting Concepts: Navigate your business through the noise. Apply these questions and insights to your selection process and avoid the pitfalls of costly and rigid content management systems.

Data is a company’s most valuable asset. Just look at Forbes’ World’s Most Value Brands list. No longer is a company’s worth evaluated by its tangible assets — data has changed all of that. Every business today relies on data. The ability to filter through volumes of data to capture true insights is critical to gaining a competitive advantage. Companies aspiring to deliver the best possible customer experiences must be able to unify different types of information, including behavioral, transactional , and operational data

Across every industry, many of the world's best and fastest-growing brands are using Adobe Experience Manager to deliver personalised content accurately and on time. Why should the target audience care? 86% of buyers will pay more for a better customer experience. What’s more, customer experience will overtake price and product as the key brand differentiator among consumers by 2020. Supporting Concepts: With Adobe Experience Manager, high levels of customer experience personalization, workflow efficiency, and data analysis are no longer cost- and resource-prohibitive dreams for only the biggest players. Brands featured include Silicon Labs, Morningstar, Swisscom, Raiffeisen, Hyatt, Nissan, Sony, SAS, Informatica, Jefferson Health.

Customer experience is the new management battleground. You know it better than anyone. Most customer experience best practices center on the value businesses need to bring to customers. But what role do customer needs play in creating an enterprise plan of attack? Get the full scoop. Plus, learn how experience managers at companies like Guitar Center, Nestle, and PETCO keep their brands thriving and competitive. Read CMO Club Solution Guide: Customer Experience Essentials.

This guide provides tips on how to filter through targeted solution marketing to make an informed, objective assessments when selecting the best commerce solution for you. Key points include: - Finding a platform that is flexible, agile, scalable. - The benefits of employing a single platform for all commerce use cases. - Leveraging customer data for commerce strategies - Employing an ecosystem of support. - Focusing on long term value over the initial costs. Every organization is at a different point in their ability to deliver frictionless shopping experiences that customers demand. Follow these guidelines to position your business for strategic growth.

Companies must learn to differentiate themselves to stay ahead. Improved experiences can help you not just sustain but accelerate past the competition. Find out how your business can outperform the competition in The Path of Experience-Driven Commerce. Read the guide to learn how to: - Understand you audience and increase engagement. - Own the omnichannel experience. - Enable business and customer insights.

With customers spending almost one-third of their days engaging with digital content and frequently engaging on multiple channels, developers need a better and faster way to create digitally engaging experiences across multiple channels. Yet despite the appeal of headless for developers, a headless-only CMS may not be the best approach. A better strategy for embracing new technology is taking a hybrid approach. 

You cannot accurately predict what your customer will want next. Artificial intelligence can. WHY SHOULD THE TARGET AUDIENCE CARE? By 2020, businesses that use AI and related technologies like machine learning and deep learning to uncover new insights will take $1.2 trillion each year from competitors that don't. (Source: Forrester.) SUPPORTING CONCEPTS: At any moment, anywhere in the world, on any kind of device, a prospect or customer is raising her hand and saying, "I'm your best opportunity. Don't ignore me." She's telling you that by every action she's taken and every interaction you've had up to that point. You can consider each bit of data you've collected across her journey a meaningful expression of intent. And with that, you will know how to give her an experience that's above her expectations and beyond her imagination. You need many different technologies in your marketing stack to manage personalization, but AI makes them all work together seamlessly. You can: –

Gartner evaluates eighteen digital commerce platforms and for the second year in a row, Gartner has identified Magento Commerce as an Industry Leader (top 3). According to Gartner, Leaders execute well against their current vision and are well-positioned for tomorrow. Magento Commerce, part of Adobe Experience Cloud, is innovating on platform functionality to help businesses like yours with the performance, scalability, and security required to deliver full-lifecycle customer experiences. Digital commerce platform choice has grown in complexity due to increased vendor choice and breadth of offerings, pricing model complexity and emerging managed service offerings. This report evaluates 18 vendors of digital commerce platforms to assist application leaders supporting digital commerce.

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Since Adobe debuted the PDF file format in the early 1990s, it has become the defacto standard for electronic documents in many markets. While engineers, publishers, and printers push the format to its technical limits with rich media and 3-D content, the general office worker comprises the PDF-using majority.

Le cloud est devenu un incontournable des technologies de l'information depuis près de dix ans. SaaS (Software-as-a-Service), IaaS (Infrastructure-as-a-Service), PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service) et désormais XaaS (Anything-as-a-Service) : autant de solutions technologiques proposées sous forme de services qui stimulent l'adoption de ce que nous appelons collectivement les services cloud.

Soucieuses de transformer au plus vite leur activité, les entreprises du monde entier font appel aux technologies numériques pour gagner en agilité et en efficacité, réaliser des économies et offrir à leurs clients une expérience hors normes. Les processus de signature documentaire représentent l’un des plus grands atouts pour accélérer cette transformation.