Is managing your marketing initiatives an exercise in cat herding? Do you frequently have moments where you're left wondering how to get things under control?! HCL’s Unica Plan can help you tackle the task. Managing a marketing initiative can be a daunting responsibility and being accountable for the P&L can be downright scary. Not having visibility into and control over those two things is a waking nightmare. Current marketing initiatives have gone beyond the traditional vision of mass media such as radio, TV and newspaper through the spray-and-pray world of Email and into the NEW “mass media,” including Text, Social and Mobile. In this new environment, where the Customer rules - you have to ride that hyper-personalization bronco. We have gone from the need to send the right message to the right person at the right time to have the right message personalized to that right customer at every possible touchpoint. ALL of the time in Real-Time! What does MRM mean to a marketing manager? In this era, Hyper personalization means more channels, more devices, more audiences, more creatives, more agencies and more WORK! Your processes have to be defined, documented, enforced and refined over time to be efficient. Your budgets have to be tracked to line items and invoices.  Luckily Marketing Resource Management (MRM) is here to help marketers and businesses manage marketing processes, optimize spend and resource utilization and manage creative content assets. MRM helps the team to work collaboratively and have greater transparency of tasks, dynamically track and understand resourcing, capability, and team workload. An MRM system provides planning, budgeting, and tracking capabilities. It also provides the tools to manage the creation of digital brand assets, workflows, and approval processes. For instance, running a campaign is like an entire project. It might look like a 4 step...