CIO

AUGUST 25, 2022

Digital geopolitics, emanating from cross-country politics, is rapidly becoming an issue that multinational CIOs must step up to lead, according to Gartner. Gartner predicts that by 2026 about 70% of multinational enterprises will adjust the countries in which they operate by hedging to reduce their geopolitical exposure. The research firm defines geopolitics as the geographic influence on power relationships in international relations.

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AUGUST 29, 2022

For the past forty years CIOs have labored to retrofit, rearchitect, and ultimately replace underfunded and underappreciated legacy infrastructures in hopes of delivering the full benefits associated with periodically occurring waves of transformative emerging technologies. Debate now rages in IT and digital communities regarding what will be the seismic technological shift of the 2020s.

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Chris Webb BI

AUGUST 22, 2022

If you aren’t active on Twitter or LinkedIn (or you don’t spend a lot of time on them) you may not have heard about the new EvaluateAndLog() function. It’s not documented yet and not mentioned on any of the official blogs, but you can read about it in the last two posts on Jeffrey Wang’s blog here: Introduce the DAX EvaluateAndLog Function.

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AUGUST 5, 2022

Everyone needs a source of energy to sustain life and stay productive. A person needs food, cars need fuel, Instagram influencers need likes, and businesses need leads. But to get such “nutrition”, you need to constantly act: buy food for cooking, come to the gas station, write posts. The same thing happens with leads: to find them and close a deal, you need to perform an extensive search.

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As we look ahead to 2025, business intelligence and data analytics are set to play pivotal roles in shaping success. Organizations are already starting to face a host of transformative trends as the year comes to a close, including the integration of AI in data analytics, an increased emphasis on real-time data insights, and the growing importance of user experience in BI solutions.

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Smart Data Collective

AUGUST 30, 2022

The market for cloud technology is booming. Companies spent over $405 billion on cloud services last year. The sudden growth is not surprising, because the benefits of the cloud are incredible. Enterprise cloud technology applications are the future industry standard for corporations. Cloud computing has found its way into many business scenarios and is a relatively new concept for businesses.

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Intelligence Node

AUGUST 29, 2022

What to expect this spooky retail season As retailers worldwide work their way through the remainder of 2022, it’s time to brace for the big leagues. The major holidays of. The post The Gore and Glamor of Halloween Trends in 2022 appeared first on Blog.

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CIO

AUGUST 16, 2022

Elaborating on some points from my previous post on building innovation ecosystems, here’s a look at how digital twins , which serve as a bridge between the physical and digital domains, rely on historical and real-time data, as well as machine learning models, to provide a virtual representation of physical objects, processes, and systems. Keith Bentley of software developer Bentley Systems describes digital twins as the biggest opportunity for IT value contribution to the physical infrastructu

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Chris Webb BI

AUGUST 29, 2022

So far in this series (see part 1 , part 2 and part 3 ) I’ve looked at how you can create a Power Automate custom connector that uses the Power BI Enhanced Refresh API to kick off a dataset refresh. That’s only half the story though: once the refresh has been started you need to know if it has finished and, if so, whether it finished successfully or not.

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AUGUST 19, 2022

When was the last time you were pleased to see a well-crafted cold sales email? Yeah, we thought so. Emailing as a way of sales prospecting has gotten a bad rap over the last few years, and for a good reason. Overtly sales-y subject lines, phony personalization, bland content…even the salespeople themselves are tired of such emails. Let’s say you worked with your sales team to produce an accurate price quote.

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Smart Data Collective

AUGUST 4, 2022

A growing number of businesses are relying on big data technology to improve productivity and address some of their most pressing challenges. Global companies are projected to spend over $297 billion on big data by 2030. Data technology has proven to be remarkably helpful for many businesses. However, companies also encounter a number of challenges as they try to leverage the benefits of big data.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 30, 2022

We’re all familiar with the “four Ps” of marketing: product, price, promotion, and place. Well, now we need to add a fifth P to the mix: privacy. Privacy compliance has become an essential part of modern-day marketing. Even though the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) went into effect in 2018, data collection and processing can still leave marketers feeling uncertain.

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Intelligence Node

AUGUST 23, 2022

Table of Contents: What is web scraping Types of web scrapers How do web scrapers work Uses of web scraping in retail How to pick a web scraping tool Final. The post What is Web Scraping in Retail? Uses and Benefits appeared first on Blog.

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CIO

AUGUST 5, 2022

Data visualization definition. Data visualization is the presentation of data in a graphical format such as a plot, graph, or map to make it easier for decision makers to see and understand trends, outliers, and patterns in data. Maps and charts were among the earliest forms of data visualization. One of the most well-known early examples of data visualization was a flow map created by French civil engineer Charles Joseph Minard in 1869 to help understand what Napoleon’s troops suffered in the d

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Chris Webb BI

AUGUST 21, 2022

If you’ve read part 1 or part 2 of this series you’ll know how you can create a Power Automate custom connector to call the Power BI Enhanced Refresh API and get fine-grained control over your refreshes. In this post I will take a look at the two parameters in the Enhanced Refresh API for datasets that use incremental refresh : applyRefreshPolicy and effectiveDate.

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mention

AUGUST 17, 2022

With many business ventures, you have to invest a lot of money upfront without any guarantee that your business will succeed. By choosing dropshipping, you don’t have to risk all your money — you can get started with a minuscule budget and by investing only a few hours of your time weekly. First-time entrepreneurs often prefer this business model to others — it’s just easy to get started and doesn’t require paying for a warehouse or showroom.

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Smart Data Collective

AUGUST 30, 2022

Analytics technology is very important for modern business. Companies spent over $240 billion on big data analytics last year. That figure is expected to grow as more businesses discover its benefits. There are many important applications of data analytics technology. One of the most important is with helping companies set their prices correctly. Analytics Can Be Essential for Helping Companies with their Pricing Strategies.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 24, 2022

Go-to-market (GTM) tech stacks are complicated — and for good reason. Modern sales and marketing teams need various tools to help them do their jobs. With the right tools you can create complete, 360-degree customer views that make running targeted campaigns and personalized sales motions easier. Unfortunately, problems arise when too many apps produce, use, and store disparate data points on the same leads and accounts.

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Vable

AUGUST 9, 2022

A genuine commitment to sustainability is critical for organisations to remain relevant and competitive in this changing world. Much like digital transformation, driving sustainability requires organisations to transform their business from within. Organisations require individuals to take the lead and as we saw at BIALL 2022 , library and information professionals are not only at the forefront of legal tech implementations but are positioning themselves as sustainability experts.

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CIO

AUGUST 4, 2022

Great teams incorporate a variety of skill sets. For example, a football team consisting of 11 quarterbacks would get crushed in a game against talented linemen, running backs and receivers. It’s no different when building a team for an enterprise AI project; you can’t just throw a bunch of data scientists into a room and expect them to come up with a revenue-generating or efficiency-improving project without support from other members of the enterprise.

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Chris Webb BI

AUGUST 14, 2022

In part 1 of this series I showed how you could create a very simple custom connector for Power Automate that allows you to call the Power BI Enhanced Refresh API. However, I didn’t show what I think is the main reason you’d want to build a custom connector: the ability to refresh specific tables or partitions in a dataset rather than the entire dataset.

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AUGUST 3, 2022

Among the industries that remained profitable amidst the pandemic was print on demand (POD), currently valued at USD 4.90 billion. The rapid shift to online shopping, as well as the clamor for personalization in recent years, has made POD an attractive option for marketers. Projections for the print on demand market show that it will continue to grow in the coming years.

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Smart Data Collective

AUGUST 4, 2022

Data analytics technology has changed many aspects of the modern workplace. A growing number of companies are using data to make more informed hiring decisions , track payroll issues and resolve internal problems. One of the most important benefits of data analytics is that it can help companies monitor employee performance and provide more accurate feedback.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 22, 2022

Ask any seasoned marketer and they’ll tell you that strong segmentation is the key ingredient to efficient, successful campaigns. From the marketer’s point of view: you get more precise with your messaging and personalization, gain a better view of your total addressable market (TAM) , spend your budget more efficiently, and improve your reporting. From the audience’s point of view: they won’t get bombarded with irrelevant content and messages, but will receive content that’s actually of interes

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IT Business Edge

AUGUST 18, 2022

Last year, Match Group – which operates online platforms like Tinder, Match.com and Hinge – shelled out $1.725 billion to acquire Hyperconnect. This was a play on the metaverse. Unfortunately, Match had challenges in making the strategy work. In the latest shareholder letter, Match CEO Bernard Kim noted : “I’ve instructed the Hyperconnect team to iterate but not invest heavily in metaverse at this time.

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CIO

AUGUST 18, 2022

With 65 million vaccine doses to administer at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, Luigi Guadagno, CIO of Walgreens, needed to know where to send them. To find out, he queried Walgreens’ data lakehouse, implemented with Databricks technology on Microsoft Azure. “We leveraged the lakehouse to understand the moment,” the CIO says. For Guadagno, the need to match vaccine availability with patient demand came at the right moment, technologically speaking.

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Chris Webb BI

AUGUST 7, 2022

I love the new Power BI Enhanced Refresh API : it allows you to do things like refresh individual tables in your dataset, override incremental refresh policies, control the amount of parallelism , cancel refreshes and a lot more, while being easier to use than the XMLA Endpoint. However, like the XMLA Endpoint, one problem remains: how can you schedule a dataset refresh using it?

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AUGUST 31, 2022

To say that TikTok is the new black, especially for Millennials and Zoomers, would be an understatement. This social media platform has gained unprecedented popularity over the last couple of years. In fact, the TikTok app has been downloaded and installed on devices more than 3 billion times around the globe. Hands down, TikTok is changing our understanding of social media, content, and online communities.

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Smart Data Collective

AUGUST 11, 2022

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has significantly altered how work is done. However, AI even has a bigger impact by enhancing human capabilities. Research conducted by the Harvard Business Review found that the interaction between machines and humans significantly improves firms’ performance. Successful collaboration between humans and machines enhances each other’s strengths, including teamwork, leadership, creativity, speed, scalability, and quantitative capabilities.

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