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DECEMBER 19, 2022

Tis’ the season for a brand new episode of Into the Fray: The Competitive Intelligence Podcast !

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DECEMBER 14, 2022

CIO Ted Ross believes the honeymoon is over for breakneck productivity when it comes to hybrid work, and he’s not the only one. Tech employees at the City of Los Angeles IT agency who were forced to work remotely in the early pandemic days were very efficient, Ross says. “Fully into the pandemic we had a 34% increase in project delivery,” he adds. But since then, productivity and innovation have waned, in part because of fading relationships between once in-person teams, along with a slew of new

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Smart Data Collective

DECEMBER 21, 2022

It’s easy to sound paranoid when talking about cyber security. Threats actually are everywhere. In your local coffee shop. Lurking on the first page of your favorite search engine. In your email inbox. One small mistake can bring business empires to their knees. It happened to Marriot. It happened to Yahoo. It happened to the Irish healthcare system.

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Chris Webb BI

DECEMBER 16, 2022

The short answer: yes. And it’s a metrics layer and a metrics store and it’s headless BI too for what it’s worth. I’ve been meaning to blog about this question for a long time now, for two reasons: Customers migrating to Power BI often ask me if Microsoft also has a product or service that can act as a semantic layer, so I need to explain that Power BI is already a semantic layer.

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Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, Terrence Sheflin, and Mahyar Ghasemali

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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Crayon

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Tesla, Rivian, and Toyota all make electric vehicles, but the way they perceive their respective roles in the EV market (and the way prospective purchasers perceive each brand) couldn’t be more different.

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CIO

DECEMBER 9, 2022

It has been almost 25 years since McKinsey & Co. introduced the term “talent war” to the world. For almost a quarter of a century CIOs have been locked in a Sisyphean battle to attract and retain the IT talent necessary to create competitive advantage. Every year, “talent” is one of the top challenges facing IT organizations. Every year, lack of critical IT skills is blamed for failure to deliver the full promise of IT investments.

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DECEMBER 21, 2022

In the last few weeks, the IT industry has seen some very interesting activity from global hyperscale cloud providers surrounding their cloud sovereignty ambitions, and their scrutiny by the regulators covering some basics compliance requirements, like the European Union’s (EU) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) Firstly, AWS made a public pledge called the “AWS Digital Sovereignty Pledge”, consisting of a commitment to provide “the most advanced set of sovereignty controls and features

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Smart Data Collective

DECEMBER 13, 2022

With technological advancement, data revolutionizes many business processes. Experts assert that one of the leverages big businesses enjoy is using data to re-enforce the monopoly they have in the market. Big data is large chunks of information that cannot be dealt with by traditional data processing software. It needs to be analyzed with premium tech tools to deduce insights germane to user experience as well as scaling businesses.

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Chris Webb BI

DECEMBER 23, 2022

A few weeks ago my colleague Dany Hoter wrote a post on the Azure Data Explorer blog about how using columns on fact tables as dimensions in DirectQuery mode can lead to errors in Power BI. You can read it here: [link]. In the post he mentioned that he could reproduce the same behaviour in SQL Server, so I thought it would be good to show an example of this to raise awareness of the issue because I think it’s one that anyone using DirectQuery mode on any data source is likely to run into.

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Crayon

DECEMBER 8, 2022

As we glide into a new month, you know what that means — a new episode of Into the Fray: The Competitive Intelligence Podcast has arrived!

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mention

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Landing pages are a popular tool used in inbound marketing to attract customers and generate leads. But simply creating a landing page and waiting for the leads to come isn’t enough. You need to create effective landing pages that encourage a visitor to become a lead. What are landing pages? A landing page is a dedicated page that seeks to drive leads and conversions.

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Tinuiti

DECEMBER 22, 2022

The social world moves fast and with all that’s happened in 2022, including economic headwinds and uncertainty of consumer demand, it’s time to keep your head on a swivel as we move into 2023. Trends are constantly changing, new platforms are emerging, and the competition is picking up… is your brand ready? We’ll help get […].

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CIO

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Here’s a proposition to consider: among the ranks of large enterprises, commercial success increasingly relies on digital transformation. In turn, digital transformation relies on modernized enterprise networks that deliver flexibility, performance and availability from the edge to the cloud. Intuitively, this hypothesis makes a lot of sense. In many enterprises, it’s also increasingly becoming the subject of painstaking debate.

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Smart Data Collective

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Technology is quickly becoming a critical component of our existence. Today, technology powers every important aspect of our life, from business to education to medicine. It has greatly aided in the automation of formerly manual activities, making everything more smooth and efficient. However, computerization in the digital age creates massive volumes of data, which has resulted in the formation of several industries, all of which rely on data and its ever-increasing relevance.

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Chris Webb BI

DECEMBER 5, 2022

There was a time when a new release of SQL Server – and therefore a new release of SQL Server Analysis Services – was the most exciting thing in the world for me. New functionality! New things to blog about! Not so now that my focus, and Microsoft’s, is on Power BI and we get cool new functionality there every month. All the same there are still a lot of people running SSAS on-premises and SQL Server 2022 has just been released, so what’s new and is it worth upgrading?

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Crayon

DECEMBER 7, 2022

The best competitive intelligence programs are proactive , meaning they identify threats as soon as they begin to emerge and enable their sales teams accordingly.

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mention

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Building relationships with email subscribers is a lot like starting a new relationship in real life. The first date is exciting, but whether or not the relationship goes the distance is determined by what you do next. If you fail to maintain a high level of email engagement, your subscribers might ghost you and become inactive, or break up with you completely by unsubscribing.

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Tinuiti

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Amazon might have the lion’s share of inventory and sellers in the online marketplace space, but they’re not the only major player on the block. Despite some early challenges, Walmart Marketplace has made great strides in recent years, with more exciting updates on the near horizon. Walmart is the largest retailer in the US with […].

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CIO

DECEMBER 1, 2022

For any IT leader new to an organization, gaining employee trust is paramount — especially when, like PepsiCo’s Athina Kanioura, you’ve been brought in to transform the way work gets done. Kanioura, who was hired away from Accenture two years ago to serve as the food and beverage multinational’s first chief strategy and transformation officer, says earning employee trust was one of her greatest challenges in those early months.

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Smart Data Collective

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Artificial intelligence has offered a plethora of benefits for businesses in every sector. The ecommerce industry is among those most benefiting from advances in AI. Therefore, it is no surprise that the market for AI-enabled ecommerce services is projected to be worth nearly $17 billion by 2030. Ecommerce giants like Amazon are finding creative ways to leverage AI.

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Chris Webb BI

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Every year, on the anniversary of the first-ever post on this blog, I write a post reflecting on what has happened to me professionally in the past year or discussing a non-technical (but still work-related) subject. Two years ago I wrote a post about people who ask the question “Why don’t you add this one simple feature to Power BI?”, something which seems even more relevant now than when I first wrote it.

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Crayon

DECEMBER 5, 2022

A product launch. An acquisition. A groundbreaking go-to-market partnership. Sooner or later, your competitor will do something big—something that directly threatens your market share.

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mention

DECEMBER 22, 2022

How many of us have spent hours thinking of the perfect caption for our Instagram posts? Wondering about the right tone, length, or style? Well, stress no more because we have got the perfect list of Instagram captions for you to copy and use directly on your posts. There are all different types of categories to choose from, like captions for product launches, wise captions or even captions for bad boys.

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Tinuiti

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Social 8 Social Media Trends & Their Impact on Marketers in 2023 By Tinuiti Team Dec 22 2022 The social world moves fast and with all that’s happened in 2022, including economic headwinds and uncertainty of consumer demand, it’s time to keep your head on a swivel as we move into 2023. Trends are constantly changing, new platforms are emerging , and the competition is picking up… is your brand ready?

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CIO

DECEMBER 20, 2022

One of the biggest cloud security threats your company faces isn’t malicious. In fact, it originates from inside your IT organization. Accidental misconfigurations pose one of the leading security vulnerabilities IT organizations contend with in the cloud. According to a recent study , 79% of companies had experienced a cloud data breach in the past 18 months—and 67% of respondents had identified security misconfiguration as the top security threat.

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