March, 2023

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Women in tech statistics: The hard truths of an uphill battle

CIO

Diversity is critical to IT performance. Diverse teams perform better, hire better talent, have more engaged members, and retain workers better than those that do not focus on diversity and inclusion, according to a 2020 report from McKinsey. Despite this, women remain widely underrepresented in IT roles. And the numbers back up this assertion, often in stark ways.

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Cybersecurity Automation: Leveling the Playing Field

CIO

By Leonard Kleinman, Field Chief Technology Officer (CTO) ) Cortex for Palo Alto Networks JAPAC Many things challenge how we practice cybersecurity these days. Digital transformation has brought significant adoption of new technology and business models, including cloud solutions, e-commerce platforms, smart devices, and a significantly more distributed workforce.

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How B2B Companies Use Competitive Intelligence to Improve Retention

Crayon

You’ve probably heard the saying, “A rising tide lifts all boats.” It’s associated with the idea that an improved economy will benefit all participants. But what happens when the economic environment is more challenging? B2B companies still need to grow, albeit likely at a slower pace. Where does new revenue come from without a ‘rising tide’?

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How to Boost Your Sales with Live Video Shopping

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If you haven’t yet, this is the time to start taking live video shopping seriously. The value of sales generated from livestream e-commerce in the U.S. is expected to reach $35 billion by 2024—a growth from $11 billion in 2021. The situation is even more impressive in countries like China, where livestream ecommerce sales are expected to be over $600 billion by 2023.

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Prepare Now: 2025s Must-Know Trends For Product And Data Leaders

Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, and Terrence Sheflin

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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DirectQuery Parallelisation In Power BI – Some Examples

Chris Webb BI

Recently we announced an important new optimisation for DirectQuery datasets: the ability to run (some) of the queries generated by a single DAX query in parallel. You can read the blog post here: [link] A few of us on the Power BI CAT team have tested this out with customers and seen some great results, so I thought I’d write a post illustrating the effect this optimisation can have and explaining when it can and can’t help.

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Tinuiti Wins Two 2022 Microsoft Advertising Partner Awards

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Tinuiti Takes Home Microsoft Advertising Channel Partner of the Year and Microsoft Advertising Client Partnership of the Year NEW YORK, NY – March 21, 2023 – Tinuiti, the largest independent performance marketing firm in the U.S.

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Why data leaders struggle to produce strategic results

CIO

Chief data and analytics officers (CDAOs) are poised to be of increasing strategic importance to their organizations, but many are struggling to make headway, according to data presented last week by Gartner at the Gartner Data & Analytics Summit 2023. Fewer than half (44%) of data and analytics leaders say their teams are effective in providing value to their organization.

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Find Your Perfect Competitive Intelligence Partner:Crayon Launches CI Partner Directory

Crayon

Competitive Intelligence professionals and product marketing leaders know the struggle of being resource-constrained. Product marketing in particular often owns competitive intelligence (and all that goes with it) but can’t dedicate head count to this critical, strategic area of the business. While there’s automation that can help (ahem, Crayon’s software platform ), there’s also lots of resources available and at the ready — consultants who specialize in win/loss interviews and analysis or orga

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9 Podcast SEO Tips To Help You Grow Your Show

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If you’re like most podcasters, you’re always looking for ways to grow your audience. After all, a bigger audience means more listeners, and more listeners mean more success. However, growing a podcast audience can be challenging, especially if you’re just starting. That’s where marketing techniques like SEO come in. Optimizing your podcast for search engines enables you to reach a whole new group of potential listeners.

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Gain a Competitive Edge With This Scenario Planning Toolkit

In a world where uncertainty and change are constant, scenario planning empowers companies with the agility and competitive edge needed to thrive. Download the toolkit to fortify your business strategy , set up your competitive positioning , and ensure your company is poised to respond to any future scenario.

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Text Search Performance In Power BI

Chris Webb BI

In the blog post for the October 2022 release of Power BI Desktop there’s a brief description of a new optimisation in Power BI for filters that perform searches in text columns. In this blog post I’m going to share more details about this optimisation and how you can make sure your reports can benefit from it. First of all, a brief description of the problem.

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AI is Driving Huge Changes in Omnichannel Marketing

Smart Data Collective

Artificial intelligence is the latest trend shaping the omnichannel experience for customers in many retail outlets. One of the biggest trends pertains to personalization. The Forbes Research Council wrote an article in October citing research showing that 71% of customers now expect a personalized experience. The article makes the point that AI is key to meeting that expectation.

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How good is ChatGPT for competitive intelligence?

Aqute Intelligence

ChatGPT is all the rage at the moment. It can pass bar exams and medical exams and seemingly answer all sorts of questions in a way that has some people very excited about ChatGPT being a fundamental shift in computer intelligence. Our understanding of the model behind ChatGPT is limited but it seems at first glance like it might excel at the fact-finding part of competitive intelligence (leaving aside the question of whether it can help with insights and decisions).

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3 force multipliers for digital transformation

CIO

Many CIOs will face a challenging year grappling with growing pressure from transformation initiatives, weekly layoff announcements, and the prospect of a recession. While digital initiatives and talent are the board directors’ top strategic business priorities in 2023-2024, IT spending is forecasted to grow by only 2.4% in 2023. Tech companies have laid off over 250 thousand employees since 2022, and 93% of CEOs report preparing for a US recession over the next 12 to 18 months.

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Are Your Impact Comms Resonating With Stakeholders?

Whether your organization is at the start of its sustainability and impact journey or years into it, many brands share a common concern: the uncertainty of whether they are sending stakeholders mixed messages. Creating content that speaks to your audience's “love language” can be a tricky dance. But, worry not! 3BL has put together tips to ensure that your content not only finds its rhythm but also resonates with your target audiences.

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NEW DATA: The Secret to Earning Your CI Stakeholders’ Trust

Crayon

Here at Crayon, we recently published the 2023 State of Competitive Intelligence , a benchmark report based on a survey of CI leaders and stakeholders.

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1120 Best Instagram Hashtags for Likes and Comments

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Are you trying to get more likes and comments on your Instagram posts? Hashtags are a great way to help get your posts noticed, but it can be hard to know which ones to use. In this blog post, we’ll share 1120 of the best Instagram hashtags to help you get more likes and comments on your posts. Whether you’re looking for popular hashtags, more specific niche hashtags, or even hashtags designed to help you get featured, we’ve got you covered!

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Why Doesn’t Power Query Know If My Step Will Fold?

Chris Webb BI

Recently, when preparing my session on query folding in Power Query for SQLBits, I wrote the following query to demonstrate the “Might Fold” indicator in Power Query Online: let Source = OData.Feed( "[link] null, [Implementation = "2.0"] ), Navigation = Source{[Name = "People", Signature = "table"]}[Data], #"Filtered rows" = Table.SelectRows(Navigation, each [FirstName] = "Angel") in #"Filtered rows" This query connects to the TripPin OData feed (which is public, so y

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Key Strategies to Develop AI Software Cost-Effectively

Smart Data Collective

You have probably read a lot about the major changes brought on by AI technology in recent months. Many people have called 2023 “the year of AI.” Every day we hear new stories about miraculous breakthroughs caused by ChatGPT and other AI applications. For example, ChatGPT recently The Independent said that the technology is starting to show signs that it can think like humans.

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7 Strategies to Gather (and Actually Use) Competitive Intel from Employees

Leaders in competitive intel know that the employees who interact with customers and prospects every day hold valuable competitive insights that could help win sales. But they don’t have a good plan or system to gather, organize, and share these insights with the stakeholders who need them. In this eBook, we outline 7 strategies to make it easier to build and scale an employee sharing program that will drive competitive advantage.

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5 Ways to Break Down Data Silos in Your Business

Zoominfo

Having good data is no guarantee that a business will make good decisions. But being saddled with low-quality data at the most critical points of strategic decision-making is a recipe for failure — and a lot of lost money. How much? Industry experts at Gartner estimate that poor data quality costs businesses about $13 million a year. And here’s the hard truth: Even businesses with high-quality data can still lose ground if that critical information is stuck in silos.

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AI and automation will play an increasing role in technology

CIO

By Ram Velaga, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Core Switching Group This article is a continuation of Broadcom’s blog series: 2023 Tech Trends That Transform IT. Stay tuned for future blogs that dive into the technology behind these trends from more of Broadcom’s industry-leading experts. It is clear that artificial intelligence, machine learning, and automation have been growing exponentially in use—across almost everything from smart consumer devices to robotics to cybersecurity to

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6 Top Competitor Analysis Tools for Funding Research

Aqute Intelligence

Competitive intelligence allows your company to analyze and track information related to your competition. The goal of competitive intelligence is to empower your business. Competitive intelligence enables your sales and marketing teams to differentiate your business from competitors. Below are some of the tools we use in competitor research for our customers to analyze competitors and understand what they are doing and what they plan to do next.

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9 Proven Methods to Get a Healthy Customer Engagement

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In today’s business world, where competition is very high, the way of treating the customer is one of the most important distinguishing features. Companies that make customers feel special and happy will generally be more successful. One of the key successes for a company is when customers recommend their products or service to other potential customers.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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ApproximateDistinctCount DAX Function Now Works On More DirectQuery Sources

Chris Webb BI

Some good news for those of you using DirectQuery mode in Power BI: the ApproximateDistinctCount DAX function, which returns an estimate of the number of the distinct values in a column and which can be a lot faster than a true distinct count as returned by the DistinctCount function, is now available to use with BigQuery, Databricks and Snowflake sources.

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Top Five AI-Driven Digital Marketing Tools in 2023

Smart Data Collective

We have seen some massive changes with AI technology in the past year, especially in the field of marketing. While we have talked about advances in AI for years on this blog, the rest of the world is finally coming to grips with the extent of the AI revolution. This past week, a growing number of people have talked about the changes that ChatGPT 4 is brining to our lives.

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How to Optimize Your B2B Marketing Funnel: 3 Friction-Fighting Tips

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Whether they’re building a brand, fueling revenue generation, or supporting the customer journey, marketers are constantly looking for ways to highlight their value and increase ROI. For demand generation professionals in charge of optimizing a B2B marketing funnel, that means any friction getting in the way of alignment, efficiency, and scalability simply has to go. “Most B2B buyers are working super hard to remain unknown to you — they tend to avoid forms at all costs,” says Calen Holbro

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What is data governance? Best practices for managing data assets

CIO

Data governance definition Data governance is a system for defining who within an organization has authority and control over data assets and how those data assets may be used. It encompasses the people, processes, and technologies required to manage and protect data assets. The Data Governance Institute defines it as “a system of decision rights and accountabilities for information-related processes, executed according to agreed-upon models which describe who can take what actions with what inf

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Maximize Productivity and Simplify IT Management with Conversational AI

ChatGPT has dominated boardroom conversations for months now. From drafting a stock trading program, to creating a SQL query to model data, there are practically no limits to the applications of the AI language model assistant. At ManageEngine, we have been working on our own AI-assistant, Zia. Zia is a fully-trained analytics assistant that can perform a range of functions such as creating and adding reports to dashboards, providing conversational support to data analysis, insight discovery, bu