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NOVEMBER 21, 2022

The age-old debate on technology versus human capability remains inconclusive. But in this time of artificial intelligence (AI), analytics, and cloud, we’re seeing more opportunities to think of how humans and machines can come together as a team, rather than acting against each other. From diagnosing diseases and delivering effortless customer experiences to understanding human preferences and providing new customer insights, the human and AI partnership is evolving — and more in sync than ever

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Chris Webb BI

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Power BI can handle large data volumes, but just how much data can you load into Power BI? Can Power BI handle big data? How big is “big” anyway? These are questions you may have when you’re starting out on a new Power BI project and the answers can be hard to find. Indeed the answer in most cases is “it depends”, which isn’t very helpful.

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Smart Data Collective

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Big data technology has changed the future of marketing in a multitude of ways. A growing number of organizations are leveraging big data to get higher ROIs from their organic and paid marketing campaigns. As a result, companies around the world spent over $52 billion on data-driven marketing solutions in 2021. The Fintech sector is among those most reliant on data-driven marketing.

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Crayon

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

The hypercompetitive New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner said it best: “Winning is the most important thing in my life, after breathing. Breathing first, winning next.”.

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Incorporating generative AI (gen AI) into your sales process can speed up your wins through improved efficiency, personalized customer interactions, and better informed decision- making. Gen AI is a game changer for busy salespeople and can reduce time-consuming tasks, such as customer research, note-taking, and writing emails, and provide insightful data analysis and recommendations.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Have you ever thought that life would be easier if the day had more than 24 hours? That’s because you juggle dozens of tasks every day (plus you are regularly asked to squeeze in a couple more). Sometimes, you just run out of time too fast and have to finish tasks in the deep night. But wait — can’t this all lead to a massive burnout? It definitely does.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Digital transformation initiatives have picked up in the retail sector in recent years as store chains compete for brand awareness and sales in a rapidly evolving market. By 2026, retailers’ global investments in digital transformation tools are expected to reach $388 billion , growing by 18% a year. That may sound like retail leaders are all in , ready to use new technology tools to extract maximum value out of their operations; ready to embrace change and grab the future by the horns.

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Chris Webb BI

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

A lot of people are building large datasets in Power BI Premium nowadays, and if you’re building a large dataset you’re very likely to be using Power BI’s incremental refresh functionality with your fact tables or manually creating and refreshing partitions in them. If so, you should occasionally do a special kind of refresh to shrink the dictionaries on your fact tables.

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Smart Data Collective

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Proper marketing and sales prospects play a huge role in improving the success rate of your business. The strategy can either be offline or digital. However, digital marketing has become the major focus of marketers across all industries, mainly due to how customers interact and engage with modern businesses. Seeing an opportunity and knowing how and when to take advantage of it defines the majority of where today’s marketers stand.

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Crayon

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

There are several obstacles to building a successful competitive intelligence program —one of the biggest being the lack of consensus on what a successful CI program actually looks like.

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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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NOVEMBER 18, 2022

The number of startups is growing at a faster rate than before. Around 305 million startups are currently operational around the world. The ever-growing startup scenario has made it more challenging for businesses to reach their audience and build a successful brand. Startup owners are investing heavily in marketing and PR so that their startups garner some much-needed attention.

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FedSavvy

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Does your capture team want to try a trick play to get a competitive advantage? This can work (perhaps) if you clear it with the referee (a.k.a. your customer), but it can go very badly. Being creative in capture strategy and solution development can help your prospective chance to win (a.k.a. the dreaded Pwin). This is especially important when many competitions are the proverbial game of inches.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

By Milan Shetti, CEO Rocket Software In today’s fast-paced digital business world, organizations have become highly adaptive and agile to keep up with the ever-evolving demands of consumers and the market. This has pushed many organizations to accelerate their digital transformation efforts in order to remain competitive and better serve their constituents — and there is no sign of slowing down.

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Chris Webb BI

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Something cool has just been announced for Azure SQL DB: the ability to call a limited number of REST APIs direct from TSQL. The announcement is here: [link]. There are code samples here: [link]. And guess what, the Power BI REST API is one of the APIs you can call! This means, for example, you can run DAX queries via the Execute Queries endpoint (bearing in mind all the limitations ) from TSQL: [link].

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Smart Data Collective

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Data analytics is unquestionably one of the most disruptive technologies impacting the manufacturing sector. Manufacturers are projected to spend nearly $10 billion on analytics by the end of the year. Data analytics can solve many of the biggest challenges that manufacturers face. One of the most significant benefits of leveraging analytics in manufacturing is with marketing optimization and automation.

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Crayon

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

It’s a typical Monday morning as you go through emails and catch up. Suddenly an urgent email arrives from the CEO: “Did you see this?”.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Companies are getting more data-driven than ever before — just think of how many KPIs you have to track every month. Measuring the results of your work is important. How can you know if your activities translate into more leads, prospects, and customers? Marketers are asked to measure effectiveness of everything, including the copy of their landing pages, emails, and ads.

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FedSavvy

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

We first examined Palantir in April 2021, outlining the company’s history, products, and core U.S. government customers. Included below are updates on their financials, work with top customers, and several noteworthy company developments. Developments over 2020 and 2021. According to their 2021 annual report, Palantir’s government business continued to constitute the majority of their business, accounting for 58% of their revenue.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Decision support systems definition A decision support system (DSS) is an interactive information system that analyzes large volumes of data for informing business decisions. A DSS supports the management, operations, and planning levels of an organization in making better decisions by assessing the significance of uncertainties and the tradeoffs involved in making one decision over another.

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Chris Webb BI

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

If you’re refreshing a Power BI dataset that contains a large amount of data you may encounter the following error: Data source error Unable to save the changes since the new dataset of size 1120 MB exceeds the limit of 1024 MB. If the dataset is hosted on a PowerBI Premium capacity, you may also reach out to your capacity administrator to see if the limit can be adjusted.

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Smart Data Collective

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Artificial intelligence is playing an important role in modern creative professions. There are a lot of reasons a growing number of companies are turning to AI technology. One poll showed that 61% of companies found that AI and machine learning were their best data investments. One of the industries that is evolving by adopting new AI tools in web design.

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Crayon

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

It doesn’t matter if you’re building a strategy from scratch or overhauling tired practices established by marketers of yore: Sales enablement shouldn’t be an afterthought. In fact, if you aim to succeed over the long term in a competitive niche, it should be at the forefront of your efforts. In this post, we’ll discuss the 7 steps to implementing a successful sales enablement strategy, which include: Establish measurable goals.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Local SEO plays an essential part in the development of an effective SEO strategy. With 78% of local searchers resulting in a purchase in-store , missing out on a well-developed and effective local SEO strategy could be losing you valuable leads. What is local SEO? Today, it is estimated that around 46% of all searchers on Google are looking for local information and solutions.

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Zoominfo

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Just as sports teams use playbooks to map out potential in-game scenarios, the best go-to-market (GTM) teams rely on playbooks to map out their revenue-generating strategy across sales and marketing. They’re essential for preparing your team for every situation that may arise during a demo, sales call, or in-person event. Playbooks can also improve prospecting and customer upsells, identify untapped opportunities, and make each salesperson and marketer more effective.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

During the opening keynote at the recent Gartner IT Symposium in Barcelona, Gartner analysts said that CIOs should look to its latest moniker, IT for sustainable growth , to drive business transformation by focusing on three key strategies: ‘revolutionary work’ to empower the workforce, ‘responsible investment’ to balance financial and sustainability objectives, and ‘resilient cybersecurity’ to support business outcomes “without constraining them”.

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Chris Webb BI

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

One of the most popular topics I’ve ever written about here is the dataset refresh errors you get with dynamic data sources and the Web.Contents function in Power BI (see here and here for example). Recently I learned about an interesting new detail regarding this problem that I thought was worth blogging about, and which may help someone trying to troubleshoot it.

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