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JULY 29, 2022

Another month is here and you know what that means — a brand new episode of Into the Fray: The Competitive Intelligence Podcast !

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CIO

JULY 20, 2022

As technology continues to take a larger role in corporate sustainability practices, CIOs can play a key role in driving both business value and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance. In fact, creating and implementing a comprehensive sustainable technology strategy must now be the core mission of a purpose-driven CIO. Every executive in Accenture’s recent sustainable technology survey agreed that technology is critical for achieving sustainability goals.

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Smart Data Collective

JULY 7, 2022

We have previously talked about the reasons that data analytics technology is changing the financial industry. One of the most significant changes has been in the field of stock market investing. Analytics Insight has touched on some of the benefits of using data analytics to make better stock market trades. They point out that value investors are using machine learning technology to anticipate future stock prices.

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Chris Webb BI

JULY 31, 2022

One feature of Power BI incremental refresh I’ve always been meaning to test out is the ability to create your own M queries to work with the “detect data changes” feature, and last week I finally had the chance to do it. The documentation is reasonably detailed but I thought it would be a good idea to show a worked example of how to use it to get direct control over what data is refreshed during an incremental refresh.

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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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JULY 13, 2022

In today’s crowded market, B2B businesses have to up their marketing game to stand out from the crowd. That’s just the reality of things. But with so many different marketing strategies, it can be tough to know which ones are right for your business. That’s why we’ve put together this list of the top B2B marketing strategies for SaaS businesses.

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Crayon

JULY 6, 2022

An account executive on your sales team, Jen, is chatting with a prospect. The conversation is going well. The prospect doesn’t seem to be evaluating any other vendors.

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CIO

JULY 18, 2022

Plummeting sales of printers and PCs and a growing inflation crisis aside, IT spending will remain strong through 2022, rising 3% year-over-year to a total of $4.5 trillion, according to projections released by Gartner Research. The 3% increase in total IT spending represents slower growth than in 2021, as the economy as a whole and the IT sector in particular began to recover from the effects of the pandemic, and growth will largely be driven by cloud services and the data center, Gartner said.

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Smart Data Collective

JULY 20, 2022

Artificial intelligence is one of the most disruptive forms of technology shaping the marketing profession since the dawn of the Internet. Here are some statistics on the importance of AI in marketing : 48% of marketers feel AI makes a greater difference than anything else in affecting their relationship with customers 51% of e-commerce companies use AI to improve the customer experience 64% of B2B marketers use AI to guide their strategy.

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Chris Webb BI

JULY 17, 2022

Recently I collaborated with a number of people from Microsoft and Snowflake to write a blog post on best practices for using Power BI in DirectQuery mode on Snowflake. You can read it here: [link]. It builds on what is already in the Power BI guidance documentation for DirectQuery to add some advice specific to Snowflake. It also has a few other tips that are generally applicable to all DirectQuery sources and which aren’t in the guidance docs (yet), such as the importance of setting the

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JULY 20, 2022

Online shopping has experienced tremendous growth since the COVID-19 pandemic. Lockdowns worldwide made customers use online digital platforms for online shopping, which increased e-commerce in the United States by $183 billion. The e-commerce industry is incredibly profitable for sellers. With a wide range of online platforms like Shopify, Magento, and Woocommerce, it has become easier to set up an online store.

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Timo Elliot

JULY 21, 2022

It often seems like some folks will do anything to avoid adopting innovation… which caption works better, do you think?

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Crayon

JULY 27, 2022

The last time I made an appearance on this blog, I showed you how to optimize your competitive intelligence program for both search mode and awareness mode. I showed you, in other words, how to ensure that each of your colleagues has easy access to the information they need—even when they don’t know they need it.

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CIO

JULY 28, 2022

For the past few years, IT leaders at a US financial services company have been struggling to hire data scientists to harness the increasing flood of incoming data that, if used properly, could improve customer experience and drive new products. To deal with this hiring problem, they’ve had to get creative. They’re not just offering remote work and flexible hours.

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Smart Data Collective

JULY 28, 2022

Bitcoin has experienced tremendous price volatility in recent months. Traders are struggling to make sense of these patterns. Fortunately, new predictive analytics algorithms can make this easier. The financial industry is becoming more dependent on machine learning technology with each passing day. Last summer, a report by Deloitte showed that more CFOs are using predictive analytics technology.

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Chris Webb BI

JULY 24, 2022

I like free stuff and I like books, so of course I like free books – and it seems that the more I provide free publicity for relevant books here the more free books I get sent. I’ve now got enough to merit writing another post covering those I’ve received recently from various publishers and authors. As always these are not reviews, just short summaries of books you might want to check out.

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mention

JULY 27, 2022

Keeping track of customer demands and communications is becoming an increasingly complex discipline. The buyer’s journey today spans a growing number of touchpoints, and people expect the businesses that they interact with to know more about them as the relationship grows beyond marketing and sales nurture to encompass support , success and even advocacy.

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Zoominfo

JULY 28, 2022

In an ideal world, B2B revenue teams would run with lightning-fast lead response times, streamlined operations, and an aligned sales and marketing team. But can all of that be possible at the same time? Without a doubt. A sales funnel powered by volume and velocity is vital to stay competitive in today’s market. Intelligent lead routing is a key component of that effective, speedy sales motion.

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Crayon

JULY 26, 2022

If you’re working with a sales team actively involved in competitive deals, you’re probably familiar with battlecards. Battlecards are a fundamental resource to help your sales team win more deals when frequently faced with familiar competitors.

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CIO

JULY 18, 2022

More than 38 million people in the United States, including 12 million children, are facing hunger despite the country producing more than enough food to feed everyone. One organization, Feeding America, the country’s largest domestic hunger relief organization, is turning to information technology to help, having hired three years ago its first IT chief to transform how its network of 200 food banks serve the food insecure.

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Smart Data Collective

JULY 21, 2022

Data analytics is incredibly valuable for helping people. learn. More institutions are recognizing this, so the market for data analytics in education is projected to be worth over $57 billion by 2030. We have previously talked about the many ways that big data is disrupting education. Big data isn’t just helping with education in the field of academia.

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Chris Webb BI

JULY 3, 2022

Some time ago I wrote a post about how optimising for CPU Time is almost as important as optimising for Duration in Power BI, especially if you’re working with Power BI Premium Gen2. This is fairly straightforward if you’re optimising DAX queries or optimising Analysis Services engine-related activity for refreshes. But what about Power Query-related activity?

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JULY 29, 2022

Cold email outreach is an effective way to build backlinks, but not everyone is seeing great ROI with it. Backlinko analyzed 12 million cold emails and found that only 8.5% of emails triggered a response. From getting the first response to actually closing the deal, the numbers go down even further. So this begs the question — what’s ailing the link building today?

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Zoominfo

JULY 27, 2022

Even in today’s data-driven sales landscape, cold calling remains a fact of life for many sales professionals. But cold calling isn’t just a major investment of time and energy, it’s precious time that could be better spent connecting with warm leads — prospects who want to hear from you and are ready to spend. Fortunately, today’s salespeople have a crucial advantage over their predecessors — an abundance of data.

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Crayon

JULY 20, 2022

When I was in 4th grade, my elementary school did an invention convention. Each student had to identify a problem in their everyday life and come up with a solution.

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CIO

JULY 12, 2022

Servant leadership has emerged as a popular management method that replaces command-and control-style leadership with empathy and empowerment. The management approach prioritizes the growth, well-being, and empowerment of employees. It aims to foster an inclusive environment that enables everyone in the organization to thrive as their authentic self.

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