CIO
OCTOBER 24, 2023
As CIOs prepare for the next wave of digital transformation, they must demonstrate shorter-term business impacts from technology investments and achieve larger innovation goals that evolve the organization’s business model. But perhaps more importantly, they must learn from their previous big digital wins — and avoid repeating all-too-frequent mistakes that cause transformations to fail or lag behind expectations.
Crayon
OCTOBER 24, 2023
If you visit Bob Boyle’s LinkedIn profile , you’ll see that he became a product marketing manager (PMM) in January 2023. But if you have a conversation with him, you’ll quickly realize that he started doing product marketing long before that.
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Smart Data Collective
OCTOBER 6, 2023
Data analytics technology has helped retail companies optimize their business models in a number of ways. One of the biggest benefits of data analytics is that it helps companies improve stability during times of uncertainty. There are inevitable ups and downs that every industry experiences, and recognizing these ebbs and flows can fundamentally impact your business.
Chris Webb BI
OCTOBER 15, 2023
In the Power BI/Fabric community everyone is excited about the recent release of Semantic Link : the ability to analyse Power BI data easily using Python in Fabric notebooks. Sandeep Pawar has an excellent blog post here explaining what this is and why it’s so cool. Meanwhile in the Excel community, everyone is excited about the new integration of Python into Excel.
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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.
mention
OCTOBER 4, 2023
4.8 billion people around the world use social media , making up approximately 59.9% of the global population. If you don’t have an online presence, you can’t reach your target audience and make them aware of your business. Social media makes it easy to get your online brand noticed , so you need to have one. With the right social media marketing plan, you can increase your online brand presence.
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CIO
OCTOBER 30, 2023
In today’s digitally transforming world, time is of the essence. Whether you’re looking to deliver a new product release, fix an issue, or enhance a service, the longer you make customers wait, the worse for your business. As you seek to boost agility and speed your organization’s digital transformation, there are some proven principles you can apply.
Crayon
OCTOBER 11, 2023
Rachel Pangburn and Garrett Denney—who lead competitive intelligence at RF-SMART and Crayon, respectively—are well-versed in the act of presenting CI program results to senior leaders. They’re so well-versed, in fact, that we did a webinar with them to tap into their collective best practices. You can watch the recording below.
Smart Data Collective
OCTOBER 3, 2023
Healthcare providers are investing more heavily in big data technology, as they strive to deal with growing challenges such as declining operating margins and an increasingly complex regulatory environment. However, many healthcare providers lack the technology or knowledge to use data prudently. One study found that 56% of hospitals do not have any data analytics or governance strategies.
Zoominfo
OCTOBER 10, 2023
The rapid adoption of modern go-to-market (GTM) is creating immense opportunity for businesses in every sector and vertical. As companies in highly competitive industries look for new vectors to drive efficient and sustained growth, they’re increasingly turning to global markets. However, while the opportunities available in overseas expansion are remarkable, so too are the challenges of working with B2B data across international borders.
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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.
Chris Webb BI
OCTOBER 29, 2023
If you’re a fan of using Log Analytics for monitoring Power BI activity , then you may have noticed there’s some new data in the ApplicationContext column of the PowerBIDatasetsWorkspace table. Up until recently the ApplicationContext column only contained IDs that identify the report and the visual that generated a DAX query (something I blogged about here ); it now contains additional information on the type of Power BI report that generated the query and an ID for the user session
mention
OCTOBER 6, 2023
Here at Mention, we’d be the first to tell you how important digital marketing has become when it comes to doing business in the modern age. As more companies shift their marketing efforts online, looking beyond the ways to use various marketing channels and deeply examining the intricacies of social media PR and affiliate marketing , it’s critical that they also prioritize cybersecurity.
CIO
OCTOBER 17, 2023
The cloud market has been a picture of maturity of late. The pecking order for cloud infrastructure has been relatively stable, with AWS at around 33% market share, Microsoft Azure second at 22%, and Google Cloud a distant third at 11%. (IBM, Oracle, and Salesforce are in the 2-3% range.) Revenue growth remains solid across the industry, but slowing somewhat, with none of the Big 3 outperforming the others enough to materially alter the balance of power.
Crayon
OCTOBER 11, 2023
Last month, we began collecting responses for our 2024 State of Competitive Intelligence survey. So far, of the 106 people who have completed the survey, 62% have said they struggle to gather information about their competitors in a timely manner.
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Smart Data Collective
OCTOBER 8, 2023
Data breaches are becoming much more common these days. PC Magazine reports that 422 million people were affected by data breaches last year. Preliminary research suggests data breaches are going to be even worse this year. A growing number of companies are recognizing that they need to take proactive measures to help bolster their data security. Software companies are among those most heavily affected, so they are taking dramatic measures.
FedSavvy
OCTOBER 22, 2023
With as many bids as we are involved with and we analyze, there are certain lessons one can learn. One such lesson is never, ever underestimate the power of management and understanding how to drive down risk. Government evaluators don’t like risk. Quite honestly, who does like risk? It’s the spooky boogeyman that lurks around each corner that will ruin your day if you’re not ready to neutralize it.
Chris Webb BI
OCTOBER 22, 2023
Back in 2021 I wrote a post showing how you can link a DAX query generated by a Power BI report in Log Analytics to a visual in a Power BI report. In that post I showed how you can get the unique IDs for each visual in a report using Performance Analyzer, an approach which works but has drawbacks. Then, in 2022 I wrote another post showing how you can get the same IDs using the Power BI Embedded Analytics Playground, which again works but isn’t perfect.
mention
OCTOBER 18, 2023
Generating revenue is especially challenging during a global economic downturn, placing more pressure on sales reps to widen their pipelines and increase their efficiency. One of the most important tools that sales reps can use to achieve this is the Ideal Customer Profile (ICP). Admittedly, ICPs are nothing new, but they are still highly effective for driving more sales, and in today’s difficult sales environment, they are more relevant than ever.
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CIO
OCTOBER 31, 2023
It’s no secret that banks and fintech companies must meet compliance and regulatory standards that are much stricter than what traditional tech companies are forced to comply with. The question becomes: How do you meet strict regulatory and compliance standards while keeping up with the rapid pace of innovation in technology? As the vice president of enterprise architecture and technology strategy at Discover Financial Services, I think about this question often as we work to design our tech sta
Crayon
OCTOBER 5, 2023
In 2023, it’s quite possible that your CI team has gotten smaller, or the amount of time you can dedicate to the program has decreased. Organizations are trying to do more with less, but while capacity has changed, the expectations have not.
Smart Data Collective
OCTOBER 19, 2023
Many businesses use big data technology to bolster efficiency. One study from Zappia found that 97.2% of companies say that they use data analytics in some capacity. While only 24% call themselves data-driven, the figure is growing significantly. Big data is changing the business models of many organizations. However, many companies are still struggling to figure out how to utilize data analytics and AI properly.
FedSavvy
OCTOBER 24, 2023
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Chris Webb BI
OCTOBER 1, 2023
This week, one of my colleagues at Microsoft, Nat Van Gulck, showed me a cool new open-source tool he’s been working on to make VisOps for Power BI much easier: PBI Inspector. What is VisOps? I’ll admit I didn’t really know either, so being lazy I asked Nat to write a few paragraphs describing the project and why it will be useful: Great progress has been made over the years with software development CICD tooling and processes (aka DevOps), just not so much with BI report visua
mention
OCTOBER 27, 2023
In 2023, developing your business successfully without a presence on the Internet is impossible or truly challenging. It would be best if you had your brand discussed and recognizable. Solving this issue is not a piece of cake at all. But there are no boundaries if you have the right strategy for growth. One of its key aspects should be collaboration with various services and platforms that would host information about your company and bring potential customers to you.
CIO
OCTOBER 30, 2023
The past decade in IT has been all about digital transformation. Under the aegis of digital transformation, IT initiatives have become more customer-centric, with a greater emphasis on people, not technology — all in an effort to redefine how the organization operates and to ensure it can keep up with the pace of change, capable of dealing with challenges and taking advantage of opportunities as they arise.
Crayon
OCTOBER 2, 2023
Is robust competitor analysis missing from your product launch plan? Find out how to optimize this key component in your GTM strategy.
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