August, 2017

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Competitor Analysis Templates

Aqute Intelligence

It would be convenient to have a single competitor analysis template that could be rolled out as needed, populated and presented. All in one easy-to-use package. Unfortunately, that is not the way of things. The tables, charts and other such forms of presenting data will vary across companies, by competitor and by focus of research e.g. product comparisons, sales benchmarking and so on.

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ElegantJ BI Solution Included in August 4, 2017 Gartner ‘Other Vendors to Consider for Modern BI and Analytics’ Report

Elegant BI

ElegantJ BI, a leading vendor in Business Intelligence and Advanced Analytics solutions, is pleased to announce that it is listed for its suite in the Gartner ‘Other Vendors to Consider for Modern BI and Analytics’ report published August 4, 2017. CEO, Kartik Patel says, “We are honored to be included, once again, in the Gartner ‘Other Vendors to Consider for Modern BI and Analytics’ report.

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App of the Week: Hotel Spend Analyzer

Domo

In a given year, corporate travel managers generate a substantial amount of data around the hotels they book on behalf of employees and executives. The only problem is that most of them don’t have the right tools to make use of this information. Indeed, any travel manager would be well-served to know which hotel in a given city has provided the lowest average rate over the past five years, or how much business they give to one of their vendors each quarter.

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Saving Days for the cost of a Cappuccino

BI4Cloud

TDT Chemicals are a niche supplier of chemical raw materials, in Australia and New Zealand. Providing chemical raw material products for protection / waterproofing. This highly specialised market means that there is a finite customer base who require these products and they ned to be provided detail market knowledge and technical experience. Even with the technical specialisation it is still a business and requires proper financial management.

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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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Combating the Culture of “Can’t”

Apprize360 Intelligence

“You can’t do that. It’s not how we do that here.” When working for (or with) a large company, “can’t” may be a word you hear on a fairly regular basis. A corporate “culture of can’t” molds employees and decision-makers into being risk-averse, void of strategic thinking, and creates artificial limitations on execution. It creates a fear-based work environment where employees don’t want to suggest a new strategy, make an investment, or highlight a new trend for fear of ridicule.

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Competitor analysis tools: news sources

Aqute Intelligence

Many competiotr analysis tools are publicly available, often for free. One category of tools are general news sources. Often overlooked, these are basic starting points when researching competitor activity or industry developments. Below are some of the sources in this category that we use when conducting competitive anlaysis: NewsLibrary AllYouCanRead Factiva Google News Moreover AJR NewsLink Newslookup Newspaper Index Newspaper Map Newspapers.com OnlineNewspapers.com Press Reader PR Newswire D

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Take a Deep Dive Into Your Data! It’s Easy

Elegant BI

Deep Dive Into Data with Easy, Sophisticated Data Analytics Tools! You don’t need scuba diving gear to get into deep dive analytics. What you need is BI analytics software, and visual analytics tools that are designed to meet the needs of every user. No organization can claim that every business user has the skill of a Data Scientist or an IT professional.

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What To Look For In A Data Partner: The 3 Cs Of Better Business Intelligence

Domo

By now, marketers everywhere understand the value of data management. We all bank on customer data to deliver business intelligence that’s crucial to marketing strategy, analytics, and campaign optimization, and we know that requires a platform designed to enable informed decision-making every time. When it comes to selecting that platform, however, many still struggle to gain a foothold.

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Business Intelligence for newbies

BI4Cloud

Understanding Business Intelligence. Business Intelligence (BI) systems have revolutionised how business owners and management understand, analyse and run their business. Ask our friend Google –. “Business Intelligence is a technology driven process for analysing and presenting actionable information to help corporate executives and business managers and other end-users make more informed business decisions.” ( Reference source ).

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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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Social vs. traditional media: Who trumps?

Contify

A real-world analysis to understand the content posted by companies on their social media sites and its comparative analysis with their coverage in traditional media. Background Until around five years back, the workflow of Market Intelligence (MI) teams was more or less clear. They primarily collected news and metrics on their competitors, suppliers, partners and industry stakeholders from company websites, news and other information products.

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Why Hasn’t HR Embraced People Analytics?

Better Buys

The backbone of any successful business is its employees. In fact, according to a global IBM survey, 71% of CEOs say human capital is a key source of competitive advantage. So, it should be no surprise that managing HR-related data is a critical aspect of any business. Why then, has HR analytics progress been so […].

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Competitor analysis tools: website monitoring

Aqute Intelligence

Many competitor analysis tools are publicly available, often for free. One category of tools are website monitoring services. When researching competitor activity and new developments, these can provide useful signals. Below are some of the sources in this category that we use when conducting competitive anlaysis: ChangeDetect Change Detection Follow That Page Infominder Update Patrol Watch That Page You can download our full list of competitive intelligence tools.

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Social BI Results in Data Popularity AND ROI

Elegant BI

Social BI: Engenders Networking and Collaboration and Provides Many Benefits! Have you heard of Social BI? If you haven’t, you should really look into it. Your business users are used to social networking and the sharing of data and information in their personal life and at work and business intelligence applications should not be an exception to this data sharing.

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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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3 Reasons Your B2B Sales Team Needs Better Data

Domo

B2B sales organizations are constantly focused on hitting their sales targets, but it can sometimes be difficult for them to determine how close they are to achieving their monthly or quarterly goals. At many firms, employees spend several hours each week compiling reports that are out-of-date by the time they are distributed to other members of the team.

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Competitor analysis tools: import records

Aqute Intelligence

Many competitor analysis tools are publicly available, often for free. One category of tools are import records and other sources of import/export activity. When researching competitor supply chains and upcoming developments, these can provide useful information. Below are some of the sources in this category that we use when conducting competitive anlaysis: EU Wer liefert was?

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ElegantJ BI Announces Key OEM Partnership With Distribution Management Solutions Provider, Herald Logic

Elegant BI

ElegantJ BI is pleased to announce an exciting partnership with Herald Logic Pvt. Ltd. Herald Logic specializes in technology-enabled distribution management solutions, delivered via its unique managed service cloud-hosted model. This partnership will benefit customers and stakeholders of both organizations and provide world-class integrated solutions.

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Data Preparation Tools Should be Self-Serve

Elegant BI

Why is Self-Serve Data Preparation So Important? What is self-serve data preparation ? It isn’t a method of making up data. It is a method of preparing data that allows the average business user to compile and analyze data without the assistance of a data scientist or an IT professional. In so many enterprises, the idea of bringing together data from varied data sources and actually making it accessible, clear and understandable is a foreign idea at best.

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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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Smart Visualization Paves the Way for the Right Decision

Elegant BI

Don’t Ask Users to Analyze BEFORE They Analyze! Use Smart Visualization! Smart Data Visualisation is a smart choice for your organization. Not every user can anticipate the best way to display and analyze data. Not every user can gain enough insight into the data in advance to understand and recommend how best to visualize data to reveal problems, opportunities or results.

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Why Data Doesn’t Always Lead To Good Decisions

Domo

Everybody makes decisions. Every hour, Every day. We tend to forget that simple fact when we try to improve decision-making processes in business. Senior leaders and executives aren’t the only ones whose choices impact operations and profitability: virtually all employees can influence these things by way of their workplace habits, the technologies they use (or abuse), and how they respond to unforeseen or challenging circumstances.

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Smart Data Visualization: Simpler, Better, Clearer, Faster

Elegant BI

Smart Visualization Tools: Analysis and Data Displays Made Simple (and Clear). Smart Data Visualization! This concept seems alien to some people. Is it data that can read your mind and automatically display itself in a way that will help you understand? Is it a method you use to see data in a clear way; a technique you learn in a class? The answer is yes…and no.

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Why will data visualisation fade away?

Elegant BI

Why do we need a graph? Me personally, have never needed a chart to check my sales data. I have used graphs to impress my seniors, who I am not sure if they get impressed with weak numbers presented in innovative graphs. As the numbers get larger and inconsistent, a graphical display will help. I do not want to dilute your vision by giving an example, but the temptation is too high. – World population and comparison of per capita GDP and the number of people who are HIV positive on a 5.5-inch ce

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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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Self-Service Analytics & The Illusion Of Self-Sufficiency (Part 2)

Domo

At many organizations, business teams have been forced to establish shadow IT teams to own and manage self-service analytics due to their corporate IT teams being unable or unwilling to embrace it. At other companies, more progressive IT teams have been able to partner with the business and successfully transition from a traditional BI approach to the new self-service model.

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App Of The Week: Social Rollup

Domo

As advertisers continue to expand their social media investments, marketers must be extremely attentive to each channel’s performance. After all, if Twitter is underperforming relative to a brand’s Facebook and Instagram activity, the marketer in charge of the account needs to know immediately. That way, they can reconfigure their Twitter strategy or shift budget to one of the higher-performing social platforms—before they’ve wasted time and money on a game plan that isn’

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Clickless Analytics – Disambiguating George (Part 2 of ?)

Elegant BI

Does not look like a technical heading? It is as serious as my other stuff. And I have forgiven the definition of technical for being ambiguous. The problem for working in a Clickless world starts with the meaning as meant in the input. So, a simple phrase “come on George” Could mean multiple things. A classic problem which the bot engine developers are resolving by using patterns and machine learning.

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What is Augmented Analytics and Why Does it Matter?

Elegant BI

If your role in business demands that you stay abreast of changes in business analytics, you are probably familiar with the term Smart Data Discovery. You may also have read the recent Gartner report entitled, ‘Augmented Analytics Is the Future of Data and Analytics’ , Published 27 July 2017, by Rita L. Sallam, Cindi Howson, and Carlie J.

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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

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Predictive Analytics on Small Data

Elegant BI

This is a small note on small data. I hope it has a big impact. The common understanding of the world is that one should use predictive and prescriptive data on big data. A vast amount of data, classified and grouped, running analytics to predict what will be the next event that one or more elements of the group will take. Predictive analytics like this allows pushing of right products to e-commerce shoppers.

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Clickless Analytics – Augmented Analytics

Elegant BI

Gartner recently released a paper on Augmented Analytics which is described as “An approach that automates insights using machine learning, and natural-language generation.”. So as a gyani disseminating free gyan on the internet, I have chosen to write a few words on this. This blog post of mine is an extremely biased and opinionated post. This is because any attempt to be fair and unbiased would not be thought provoking.

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5 Reasons Why Real-Time Data is About to Reach Critical Mass

Domo

With billions of internet users generating 2.5 exabytes of data every day, there’s no question that data management, analysis, and visualization are critical to business success. What isn’t as cut and dry is how fresh that data needs to be in order for businesses to extract the necessary insights for their brands. Take a look at how companies like Unilever, for instance, are incorporating real-time data into their marketing strategies.

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