Stories Now Also on LinkedIn – What They Can Do and How to Use Them for Your Business [5 Reading Tips]

Story LinkedIn Feature
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LinkedIn Stories are now available in Germany and worldwide and can make professional communication on LinkedIn more interesting in the future. The exchange with other users from the same and related industries is exactly what LinkedIn is all about. Unlike on other social networks, professional and business issues remain at the forefront – despite the platform’s growth and focus on dialogue.

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If You’re Going to Do It, Do It Right! Sonderpreis Baumarkt Starts into a Successful Digital Future with a New PIM Solution and Modern System Architecture [Success Story]

If You're Going to Do It, Do It Right! Sonderpreis Baumarkt Success Story
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Germany is the country of DIY stores. Nowhere else in the world are there so many stores for gardening, building and DIY supplies per capita as in the land of the alleged poets and thinkers. The industry’s e-commerce is flourishing as well. With more than 270 branches in Germany, FISHBULL Franz Fischer Qualitätswerkzeuge GmbH from Neustadt bei Coburg in Franconia has established itself in the DIY store industry. The company is mainly located in Southern and Eastern Germany. The history of Sonderpreis Baumarkt, which was founded in 1995 by two brothers, is remarkable, as the company evolved from being a market vendor to a multi-branch company with online shop.

The Franconian company has always demonstrated a special feeling for its customers and their needs. This feeling now had to be adequately transferred from analogue to digital. Our new success story impressively shows how this was achieved.

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Google Analytics v4 Is Here. More Privacy-Friendly Thanks to AI? [5 Reading Tips]

Google Analytics v4
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Google has released a new version of its analytics tool: Google Analytics v4. Thanks to artificial intelligence, it can be used in a more privacy-friendly way and compensate for the absence of cookies in the future. In addition, web and app merge in cross-device tracking. The new version has been online since the 14th of October. Do you want to know how good it really is and what other features the new version has to offer? Find out more in our reading tips of the week.

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Tech Talk with an All-Rounder: Tech-telmechtel with PIM and MDM [Interview]

Tech Talk All-Rounder PIM MDM Tech-telmechtel
Stefan Kellner, PIM & MDM consultant and customer experience expert at dotSource

So, who reads the last page of a new book first? Who scrolls down to the reviews first and then back to the product? Today you do not have to »cheat« because you will get last but not least right at the start. Why? Because it is particularly this answer in the Tech-telmechtel talk that shows what today’s interview guest is capable of. Stefan is not just a consultant and developer. He is the PIM and MDM all-rounder from the other side, who knows the pain points surrounding data struggle like no one else because he has experienced them himself.

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CRM Between Trend and Duty – How Well Do You Really Serve Your Customers? [5 Reading Tips]

CRM Trends 2020
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Maintaining customer relationships is a must. Companies must know their customers. They must know them very well. Therefore, it is all the more important that solutions that help companies to fulfil their duty are developed further. Because of new digital possibilities, systems are subject to constant change. Legal requirements also play a role. Today’s reading tips of the week show what insights have emerged from the CRM trends we presented at the beginning of the year.

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B2B Commerce Pioneer Thanks to an MVP: Röchling Implements Modern Experience Platform for Highly Diverse Products [Success Story]

B2B Commerce Pioneer Röchling Success Story
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We can find Röchling products practically everywhere we go – in cars, on bouldering walls, on playgrounds. The semi-finished products of the world’s leading manufacturer of engineering plastics are available in three basic shapes: sheets, blocks and rods. However, the three basic products are required in countless variants, which makes it so difficult to map them digitally. Our new success story shows how this can be achieved nevertheless.

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Tech Talk and Cloud Migration: Tech-telmechtel with SAP Commerce Cloud [Interview]

Tech Talk Cloud Migration SAP
Markus Hartleb, team lead at dotSource and SAP expert

Last week we launched our new interview series. We want to give the floor to those who can provide real first-hand insights. After Mirco took us into the world of microservices a few days ago, we are talking with Markus Hartleb today. At dotSource, he is leading the team that is responsible for our major client BayWa and therefore mainly works with SAP.

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CDP, DMP or CRM? What Is the Best Way to Gather Customer Data? [5 Reading Tips]

CDP DMP CRM
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With the wide variety of solutions for customer data, it is not that easy to keep track of them all. Particularly the more recent category of customer data platforms (CDPs) creates confusion among marketers. After all, it is not always easy to clearly distinguish between a CDP and other solutions. Today’s reading tips summarise the main differences between the most common systems.

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Tech Talk Instead of Buzzword Bingo: Tech-telmechtel with Microservices [Interview]

Tech Talk Buzzword Bingo Microservices Tech-telmechtel
Mirco Gatz, tech lead at dotSource

New month. New series of articles. Welcome to our new Handelskraft format: Tech-telmechtel (a blended word consisting of »tech« and the German word »Techtelmechtel«, meaning a short relationship/flirt). From now on, there will be plenty of first-hand tech insights every week  That would already be too many buzzwords for Mirco, but he took part in the first episode anyway. Not only is Mirco good at what he does, but he can also explain incredibly well what he does – even to (semi-)amateurs like me.

Find out in this article what Mirco – married, two children, house builder, passionate racing cyclist and tech lead at dotSource – has to say about the long-running topic of microservices, where the journey is going and why he even bothers with it.

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CPQ Software: Achieving Increased Productivity and Higher Customer Satisfaction in a Hybrid Sales World with Automated Systems [5 Reading Tips]

CPQ Software Sales
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You read about these three letters time and time again: CPQ. The abbreviation stands for Configure, Price, Quote. It describes a process chain in sales or in sales processes.

In order to make the sale of diverse and customer-specific products and services as simple as possible, an appropriate CPQ software which fulfils certain functions is required. What is it capable of?

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