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OCTOBER 16, 2019

Business intelligence definition. Business intelligence (BI) leverages software and services to transform data into actionable insights that inform an organization’s strategic and tactical business decisions. BI tools access and analyze data sets and present analytical findings in reports, summaries, dashboards, graphs, charts and maps to provide users with detailed intelligence about the state of the business.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Artificial intelligence may seem like a new edition to the business world– but it’s already transformed the way we sell B2B products and services. Early adopters of AI have achieved significant benefits – including increased efficiency, cost reduction, improved customer experience, revenue growth, and more. But, many businesses still question the effectiveness and practicality of AI.

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Smart Data Collective

OCTOBER 2, 2019

According to a recent Adobe report , marketers have identified data-driven marketing as the most important business opportunity for 2019. That clearly indicates the importance that marketers give to data and why you should too. After all, data-driven marketing can help you achieve numerous benefits for your business, ultimately leading to an increase in conversions.

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Aqute Intelligence

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Sales is a challenging role. One way to make it easier is to arm your sales team with information and insights about your competitors. But how, exactly, can competitive intelligence help salespeople to strike more deals? Before we address that question, let’s cover the basics. What is competitive intelligence? Competitive intelligence simply means information about your competitors, your industry and emerging threats and opportunities.

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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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Primary Intelligence

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Getting key feedback from customers is nothing new. And in the height of the information age, it has become easier than ever to get the voice of your customer. However, not every Voice of the Customer (VoC) program is successful. Definition of Voice of the Customer. Voice of the Customer is a research program that captures the experience customers have during their entire customer journey with you.

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Digimind

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Gartner predicts that chatbots will replace 85% of customer service interactions by 2020. With advancements in technology and the rise of artificial intelligence and conversational interfaces, consumers across industries are increasingly more likely to interact with a bot than ever before. Coming in various forms such as mobile applications, website-based applications, Facebook Messenger, and telecommunication, chatbots are redefining the way pharmaceutical and healthcare companies interact and

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Cold email is one of the most common and tested tactics in a modern salesperson’s repertoire. And yet, sales reps still look for ways to improve their sales email strategy. It’s not hard to see why — after all, only 24% of sales emails are opened ( source ). Fine-tuning your cold email strategy might not make your open rates skyrocket to 90%, but it can make a major difference.

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Smart Data Collective

OCTOBER 1, 2019

What exactly is artificial intelligence (AI) and what business does it have in higher education? Simply put, AI is an attempt to emulate human knowledge by programming extensive rules into computers. Through machine learning and expert systems, machines can produce patterns within mass flows of data and pinpoint correlations that couldn’t possibly be immediately intuitive to humans.

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Aqute Intelligence

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Want to do your own competitive research? The good news is that there’s no secret formula, and anyone can gather competitive intelligence. The bad news is that you’ll need a lot of time to gather information, and the determination and persistence to uncover hard-to-find stories and data. At Aqute, we’ve spent more than two decades refining our approach to competitive intelligence, and this experience gives us an advantage when it comes to uncovering the most valuable and insightful information.

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Primary Intelligence

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Diet and exercise. If you ask anyone competent in dealing with body health, they will invariably come back to these two items. When it comes right down to it, that is the key. It is a lifestyle change. However, our society is riddled with quick fixes—from fad diets to pills—all meant to take the effort out of improving our health. And these quick fixes are tempting.

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Moz

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Posted by BritneyMuller Machine learning is only growing in importance for anyone working in the digital world, but it can often feel like an inaccessible subject. It doesn't have to be — and you don't have to miss out on the competitive edge it can give you when it comes to SEO task automation. Put on your technical SEO cap and get ready to take notes, because Britney Muller is walking us through Machine Learning 101 in this week's episode of Whiteboard Friday.

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Datapine Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2019

If you want to convey crucial information to decision-makers in the easiest and most effective way possible, you need to embrace the power of interactive dashboards. A business dashboard offers at-a-glance insights based on key performance indicators (KPIs) and is an intuitive and visually pleasing way to consume data. Unlike early predecessors, they give presenters the ability to engage audiences with real-time data.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Companies hire new talent for a number of reasons. Perhaps they’re growing, or have new goals and needs, or an existing employee is leaving, etc. But, modern recruiters can’t simply wait for one of these things to happen before they start looking for new job candidates. Given the fast-paced and increasingly competitive hiring landscape, recruiters must take a proactive approach to cultivate a group of potential hires — even before they need to fill open positions.

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Smart Data Collective

OCTOBER 8, 2019

While sports analytics is hardly a new idea, how it is being used in hockey has changed dramatically. Coaches no longer have to wait for newspapers to print out statistics. Fans are not left to wonder how their favorite players are truly excelling. What has brought about this change? Big data. Big data has taken all forms of sports analytics by storm, but we are only now really beginning to see what it can do for hockey.

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Aqute Intelligence

OCTOBER 9, 2019

The short answer is that yes, competitive intelligence is an ethical business activity. The longer answer is that intelligence gathering can stray into unethical territory, and it’s important for competitive intelligence firms to understand the risks and have policies for staying on the right side of the ethical (and legal) divide. We have a simple rule (as well as a company policy on how we conduct research) that governs our work: if you find yourself asking if a practice is legal, then you pro

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Primary Intelligence

OCTOBER 10, 2019

What is sales enablement? Sales enablement provides salespeople with tools, content, and information that help them sell efficiently and effectively. To be an effective provider of these resources, sales enablement must be careful in its direction and procurement of information to assist sales. After all, with the wrong sources and approach, enablement could end up being the blind leading the blind.

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Domo

OCTOBER 31, 2019

From getting your arms around all the data your company owns to getting more bang for your business’s buck, CIOs are facing a number of pressures and challenges these days—and they’re only mounting. I recently sat down with five of the most revered IT leaders of the past three decades— Domo Enterprise Advisory Board members Phil Fasano, John Leggate, Tony Scott, Esat Sezer, and Mahvash Yazdi, who possess more than 100 years of combined experience as global CIOs at some of the world’s largest org

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Happy Market

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Welcome to the 2019 CRC Series. Recorded live in Orlando, this series is bringing interviews straight to you from exhibitors and speakers at this year’s event. In this interview, host Jamin Brazil interviews Aaron Hill, Vice President of Client Services at Sawtooth Software, Inc. Find Aaron Online: LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/aaronhill1. Website: www.sawtoothsoftware.com.

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OCTOBER 10, 2019

Statistically speaking, companies who employ a diverse staff achieve more financial success, attract better job candidates, and are more likely to capture new markets than less-diverse companies ( source ). But— the term diversity doesn’t just speak to a person’s skin color, ethnicity, or even their skill set. True diversity is achieved when a group of people who have a wide range of perspectives, experiences, and backgrounds are given a chance to openly collaborate and voice their opinions.

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Smart Data Collective

OCTOBER 11, 2019

There are a lot of ways that organizations can leverage big data. Most of them don’t have difficulty collecting the data they need to make more informed decisions. However, they often struggle to conceptualize the data and present it in a format that supports their conclusions. This is one of the areas where a business dashboard can be useful. Big data has made business dashboards possible.

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Aqute Intelligence

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Starting a business is like entering a perpetual race: You have to keep pushing forward, or watch your rivals overtake you. We’re in the business of competitive intelligence, which is a common tactic to mitigate the risks from competitors. But what else do companies do to fend off surging startups – or overtake incumbents? Know your competitors Competitive intelligence is really just a big term for a very basic human impulse.

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Primary Intelligence

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Every company wants to understand how their customers feel about their experience with them. The question is how to accomplish that? Mapping the customer journey can be difficult if not done with the proper tools and methodology. Let’s cover seven steps you can take to make your customer journey map accurate and effective. Customer journey definition.

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Domo

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Domo can transform your business by helping you get to insights faster with automated data discovery, including deep learning and descriptive stats, accelerate discovery and decision-making using data science tools for predictive modeling, build efficiency into your data prep with Domo’s ETL tools and processes, and ask questions about your data with natural language queries.

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Happy Market

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Welcome to the 2019 CRC Series. Recorded live in Orlando, this series is bringing interviews straight to you from exhibitors and speakers at this year’s event. In this interview, host Jamin Brazil interviews Angela Pack, Business Development Manager at Askia. Find Angela Online: LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/angela-lebedis-pack-3186b01. Website: www.askia.com.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Once upon a time, startups with a billion-dollar valuation were so unique that they were deemed unicorns. However, the unicorn startup landscape has shifted dramatically since the term was coined by VC Aileen Lee in 2013. . Many of today’s unicorn companies are younger, more diverse, and experiencing faster growth than the startups of yesterday. And, they’re multiplying at a staggering rate.

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