According to research from IDC, over 40% of all marketing materials aren't used by sales teams. The primary reason is that sales reps are unable to locate or access the materials when needed. But in top-performing organizations, sales and marketing are closely aligned. A CRM system is usually the starting point, but the technology available to support sales marketing alignment go well beyond a common platform for customer and prospect contact information. The eight tools here deliver a range of functionality such as email automation, automatic email and call logging, workflow scheduling, lead qualification, sales enablement, and personalized direct mail.

Video game developers reached spectacular heights in 2016, creating games that entertained, enlightened, and elevated the medium. These are not those games. These are the losers, the stinkers, the games that wasted the time and money of everyone involved. These games aren't just boring or buggy, but fundamentally broken: They're not so bad they're good, they're so bad it's offensive. I've based this list on Metacritic's five lowest "Metascore" ratings for all games released in 2016.