Wishing You Happy Holidays + A Happy New Year
To our valued Clients and Friends,
As 2017 draws to a close, I wanted to take this opportunity and thank you for your support, thoughtfulness and continued loyalty to DemandBridge and e-Quantum.
This past year has been one of immense change for all of us. Our team — e-Quantum, the Corporate IT Department from WebbMason and DemandBridge — merged into one independent entity this year. We are thrilled with the journey ahead for the new company, as well as the roadmap for our platforms which will be revealed in early 2018. You can trust we are diligently working to create a versatile offering to better meet your needs that brings the best of both product lines together into one scalable (and affordable) solution.
Also new this year was our move to the Microsoft Azure Cloud. After intense research into the many cloud-hosting solutions, we felt Azure was the best fit for our current and future Clients. Joining the Microsoft family allows for the opportunity to integrate into additional leading-edge Microsoft products such as Office 365, PowerBI (for Reporting/Dashboards) and (in the future) Predictive Analytics/Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning applications as well. Mastering these available tools through the Azure infrastructure will help each of us stay prominent, relevant, and profitable in 2018 and beyond. We hope to have all products migrated to the Cloud by mid-year.
Additionally, we have been working behind-the-scenes on a more robust strategic sourcing tool and marketplace. Our goal is to help you leverage the collective buying power of our install base to lower your cost of goods sold and increase your margins…while also developing an improved vendor ecosystem that will increase your responsiveness. We are in the midst of piloting it with a select group of clients in order to refine our approach. Information on this new way of doing business will be unveiled at our 2018 Client/Partner conference. We will announce the date and venue in 1st quarter 2018.
Be on the lookout for a webinar series where you will have the chance to interact directly with us as we develop the combined vision, product/service enhancements, and blueprint for the future. We encourage you to attend, participate, ask questions, and challenge our thinking about modern marketing automation, business management software and strategic sourcing technology.
Have a joyous holiday season with family and friends, and we’ll see you in 2018.
All my best,
David B. Rich
CEO, DemandBridge
