CIO
JANUARY 2, 2024
CIOs are readying for another demanding year, anticipating that artificial intelligence, economic uncertainty, business demands, and expectations for ever-increasing levels of speed will all be in play for 2024. Yet, CIOs remain both undaunted by that list and expectant about what they can achieve. They’re articulating ambitions and formulating objectives, turning those would-be challenges into opportunities.
Smart Data Collective
JANUARY 2, 2024
Companies around the world increasingly use business intelligence (BI) dashboards. If you use one or intend to, knowing some business intelligence best practices can help you avoid pitfalls. Here are 10 best practices for usiness intelligence dashboards from which you can choose information to display.
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Aqute Intelligence
JANUARY 23, 2024
Every now and then, we publish a list of competitive intelligence companies. Our criteria include that competitive intelligence has to be their primary, or at least significant, focus. Other agencies graze the edges of competitive intelligence, but it's not their main service. All the companies we listed carry out primary or secondary research for their clients (usually both), and they all have competitive intelligence-focused websites.
Chris Webb BI
JANUARY 7, 2024
A few years ago a new pair of Profiler events was added for Power BI Import mode datasets (and indeed AAS models): the Job Graph events. I blogged about them here but they never got used by anyone because it was extremely difficult to extract useful data from them – you had to run a Profiler trace, save the trace file, run a Python script to generate a.dgml file, then open that file in Visual Studio – which was a shame because they contain a lot of really interesting, useful informat
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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.
mention
JANUARY 12, 2024
Video content accounts for 80% of all the marketing material we see online today. Focusing on video marketing in 2024 is a great move for businesses and marketers. 2023 has been a great year for marketers who created more video content for businesses. Times are changing, and the video marketing sphere will witness a lot of advancements in the coming years.
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CIO
JANUARY 30, 2024
Oracle’s annual flagship event, CloudWorld Tour returned to the UAE for the second consecutive year to share the company’s latest AI innovations to power UAE’s Digital Economy and its plans across the region. The company that just turned 35 years old in the UAE will continue to invest in local infrastructure to bring cloud capabilities that will help the UAE Government entities and private sector.
Smart Data Collective
JANUARY 3, 2024
We have talked about how big data is beneficial for companies trying to improve efficiency. However, many companies don’t use big data effectively. In fact, only 13% are delivering on their data strategies. We have talked about the importance of data quality when you are running a data-driven business.
FedSavvy
JANUARY 30, 2024
Have you ever seen a parallel from romantic comedies ( Rom-Coms ) and federal contract bids? Here is where we learn this critical lesson that U.S. Government agencies may also be seen as that sought after love interest that is only going to spurn you if you don’t realize something very important. Here we have another Deadly Sin when you fail to realize… They may just not be that into you.
Chris Webb BI
JANUARY 14, 2024
Following on from my previous post showing how you can visualise the job graph for a Power BI Import mode semantic model refresh, I this post I will look at how you can interpret what the job graph tells you – specifically, explaining the concepts of blocking and waiting. As always, simple examples are the best way of doing this. Blocking Blocking occurs when one job can only start when one or more other jobs have completed because there is a dependency between them.
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mention
JANUARY 10, 2024
Email is one of the most widely used digital communication channels. Nearly everyone in a professional setting communicates through this channel. In fact, the average working professional sends at least 40 emails daily. For most people, writing emails is so common that they may forget just how important sending a good email is to their business contacts.
Zoominfo
JANUARY 29, 2024
Whether they’re navigating economic headwinds, technological disruption, or intense competition, more than 35,000 businesses worldwide rely on ZoomInfo to fine-tune their marketing campaigns, scale their sales outreach, and identify prospects who are primed to purchase. ZoomInfo’s Customer Impact Report 2024 brings these stories into sharp focus. Over the past several months, our teams have surveyed some 7,000 ZoomInfo users to learn more about how we help go-to-market professionals meet their a
CIO
JANUARY 8, 2024
Last year was certainly a wild ride, with the ascendent rise of AI impacting a wide range of IT sectors and capturing the imagination (and fears) of the world at large. IT leaders can look forward to even more surprises, as well as continuing challenges, over the next 12 months. To stay on top of both old and new challenges, IT chiefs should evaluate their current business and technology strategies and, when necessary, adjust them to address rapidly evolving technology, business, and economic pr
Smart Data Collective
JANUARY 10, 2024
AI technology has played a crucial role in the future of cybersecurity. According to Grand View Research, cybersecurity providers spent over $16.4 billion on AI in 2022. This figure is projected to grow over 24.3% a year through 2030.
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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.
FedSavvy
JANUARY 23, 2024
We last looked at Peraton in early 2021 and Peraton has gone through many changes such as organizational restructuring, commitments to building out a cybersecurity workforce, and big wins taking place within the past few years. There are many developments, but FedSavvy Strategies illustrates a few highlights of Peraton’s journey since 2021. Peraton’s Organization Since the first “new Peraton” organization was announced, it has gone through a few changes.
Chris Webb BI
JANUARY 21, 2024
One of the most important properties you can set in a Power BI DirectQuery semantic model is the “Maximum connections per data source” property, which controls the number of connections that can be used to run queries against a data source. The good news is that the maximum value that you can set this property to has just been increased in Premium.
mention
JANUARY 26, 2024
In the ever-evolving landscape of digital marketing, there are various metrics and concepts that marketers need to be familiar with in order to stay competitive. One such concept that has gained significant importance in recent years is Share of voice (SOV). Understanding and effectively utilizing share of voice can have a profound impact on a brand’s marketing strategy and ultimately drive success.
Zoominfo
JANUARY 29, 2024
ZoomInfo delivers increased productivity for go-to-market professionals, helping them win more deals quicker, with better collaboration across departments. But don’t take our word for it — just listen to our customers. The 2024 edition of ZoomInfo’s Customer Impact Report — based on surveys from some 7,000 users — reveals that our platform drives incredible increases in productivity and significant time savings.
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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.
CIO
JANUARY 23, 2024
Regardless of where organizations are in their digital transformation, CIOs must provide their board of directors, executive committees, and employees definitions of successful outcomes and measurable key performance indicators (KPIs). Do a little research, and you’ll find many frameworks, taxonomies, and recommendations for digital KPIs. For example, McKinsey suggests five metrics for digital CEOs , including the financial return on digital investments, the percentage of leaders’ incentives lin
Smart Data Collective
JANUARY 30, 2024
Automation and robotics incorporated into security systems and smart home solutions have revolutionized the field of home security, home automation or domotics, and housework facilitation. The number of smart home users in the US is continuously increasing and is expected to reach nearly 70 million homes in 2024.
Aqute Intelligence
JANUARY 17, 2024
The definition of a winning edge in the business world nowadays requires more than just savvy marketing campaigns and brilliant services. It’s about understanding your competition and using that knowledge to drive your business forward. 90% of Fortune 500 Companies use competitive intelligence to get a leg up on their industry competitors – proving that all businesses should work to improve their own CI efforts to develop a winning business strategy.
Chris Webb BI
JANUARY 18, 2024
In my last post but one I showed how you could create a DGML file that contains detailed information on what happens during a Power BI Import mode refresh – the “job graph” – and visualise that in Visual Studio or VS Code, to help with performance tuning. In my last post , I explained the concepts of blocking and waiting which are key to understanding this data.
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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
mention
JANUARY 19, 2024
As we enter 2024, email marketing continues to stand out as one of the most profitable channels of communication between businesses and consumers. With over 77% of marketers claiming that it is their most valued strategy, email marketing is now predicted to generate $38 for every $1 spent. The question is, how do you stand out from the crowd? As our devices are flooded with hundreds of advertorial emails per day, the goal is to no longer engage in an email campaign , but to optimize it to see op
Zoominfo
JANUARY 24, 2024
In any sales-led growth strategy , the purpose of marketing is to get new leads into the sales funnel that drives new business. However, only a small percentage of potential customers will ever see your ads or read your content — especially when marketing budgets are under pressure. Sales teams can make up the difference using outbound sales techniques.
CIO
JANUARY 30, 2024
In today’s dynamic, digitally evolving business landscape, establishing a strong foundation of trust within an organization is more vital than ever. In this article, we look at why trust is so critical in an enterprise and offer some key approaches for establishing a solid foundation of trust. Trust is critical and difficult to maintain In an enterprise, trust can be fragile.
Smart Data Collective
JANUARY 3, 2024
AI technology has been invaluable for businesses in all sectors. A growing number of businesses are using AI to improve their marketing strategies, improve compliance, reduce cybersecurity threats and deal with countless other issues.
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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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