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SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Oracle has updated several applications within its various Fusion Cloud suites in order to align them toward supporting use cases for its healthcare enterprise customers. These updates, which include changes to multiple applications within its Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Human Capital Management (HCM), Enterprise Performance Management (EPM), and Supply Chain and manufacturing (SCM) Fusion Clouds, are expected to help healthcare enterprises unify operations and improve patient care, Orac

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Crayon

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

If you’re responsible for competitive enablement, you should survey your sales reps on a quarterly basis and ask them how confident they feel selling against your top competitors.

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Smart Data Collective

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

In the last decade, we’ve observed an immense surge in technological advancements. From smart homes to wearables, cars to refrigerators, the Internet of Things (IoT) has successfully penetrated every facet of our lives. But have you ever wondered what makes all this possible? What powers these devices to become more intelligent, responsive, and adaptable?

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Chris Webb BI

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

If you read this post that was published on the Fabric blog back in July, you’ll know that each Power Query query in a Fabric Gen2 dataflow has a property that determines whether its output is staged or not – where “staged” means that the output is written to the (soon-to-be hidden) Lakehouse linked to the dataflow, regardless of whether you have set a destination for the query output to be written to.

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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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SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Imagine a scenario where every time you publish an article on your website, it quickly starts ranking in the top positions in Google. Understanding topical authority, and how to build it for your website is a crucial step to helping your website perform better in Google, thereby attracting more organic traffic. In this article, you will learn what topical authority is, why it’s important, and how to strategically build your website to be a topical authority.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Digital transformation has become an essential part of business success. Yet, organizations still struggle with getting it right. According to TEKsystems’ 2023 State of Digital Transformation , 41% of organizations’ digital transformation (DX) initiatives have failed to achieve their desired outcomes. Another study, the 2023 State of the Intelligent Information Management Industry , turned up similar numbers, finding that one-third of companies have yet to achieve significant success with their

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Crayon

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

When a competitor announces a major product release or an acquisition, the natural reaction is to wish you’d known about it sooner—because the sooner you know, the more time you have to prepare internal communications, external talking points, etc.

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Smart Data Collective

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

If you’re a manufacturer of IoT devices, you see compliance as something that keeps pushing product release deadlines further in the future. If you’re a cybersecurity professional, who knows that there are too many IoT devices within an infrastructure of a business to count, IoT security is something that keeps you up at night. If you’re a consumer, you might not even know that your new smart TV or refrigerator can put your data at risk.

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Chris Webb BI

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

One of the most popular posts on my blog in the last few years has been this one: Keep The Existing Data In Your Power BI Dataset And Add New Data To It Using Incremental Refresh To be honest I’m slightly ashamed of this fact because, as I say in the post, the solution I describe is a bit of a hack – but at the same time, the post is popular because a lot of people have the problem of needing to add new data to the data that’s already there in their Power BI dataset and there&#

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

There’s no doubt that social media has changed the way companies do public relations (PR). For starters, it used to be that you had to get chummy with journalists and media outlets to get the word out about a new product, upcoming event, or exciting milestone. Now, you can communicate instantly and directly with relevant stakeholders, such as investors, business partners, and customers.

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Zoominfo

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Demand for generative AI has reached a fever pitch in business — and like a lot of tech trends, the early waves of excitement are starting to collide with bottom-line reality. As leaders across all sectors push to adopt generative AI tools like ChatGPT, it’s also becoming clear that most generative AI (GenAI) initiatives for business will quickly fall apart without a foundation of accurate, timely, and comprehensive data.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Just months after partnering with large language model-provider Cohere and unveiling its strategic plan for infusing generative AI features into its products, Oracle is making good on its promise at its annual CloudWorld conference this week in Las Vegas. Nearly all of Oracle’s Fusion Cloud suites — including Cloud Customer Experience (CX), Human Capital Management (HCM), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Supply Chain Management (SCM) — are being updated with the company’s Oracle Cloud Infr

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Crayon

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

A few days ago, we started collecting responses for our 2024 State of Competitive Intelligence survey. As I’m writing this, the sample size is still very small (42 responses), but the early results are interesting nonetheless.

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Smart Data Collective

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

Increasingly, our world has become obsessed with data. Companies everywhere want to know who their customers are, how they behave, how they make purchasing decisions, and how they can be persuaded. In some ways, this concept is nothing new. Entrepreneurs, innovators, and creatives have always benefited from doing research and better understanding their business environments.

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Chris Webb BI

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

While I was at the Data Scotland conference in Edinburgh on Friday (great event by the way) I stopped by the Tabular Editor stand and got the nice people there to give me a demo of their new tool, DAX Optimizer. It’s currently in private beta but if you’re curious to learn more, Nikola Ilic has already blogged about it in detail here. Rather than blog about the tool itself – there’s no point repeating Nikola’s post – I thought it would be good to answer a ques

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

You’ve been browsing the internet and haven’t heard of ChatGPT? That can’t be true. ChatGPT is a large language model-based chatbot launched by OpenAI on November 30, 2022. Since then, ChatGPT has gained massive popularity, boasting over 100 million users. But what’s even more interesting is that ChatGPT can be used for a variety of tasks, like content generation , proofreading, market research , and AI art generation.

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FedSavvy

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

To win a recompete contract, many companies aim to bring innovation to improve program performance. However, doing so without having the proper risk mitigations in place can be a fatal flaw. Read on through an example of an incumbent who failed to secure a recompete award because they introduced too much risk in our newest installment of our Deadly Sins series !

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

If any technology has captured the collective imagination in 2023, it’s generative AI — and businesses are beginning to ramp up hiring for what in some cases are very nascent gen AI skills, turning at times to contract workers to fill gaps, pursue pilots, and round out in-house AI project teams. Analyzing the hiring behaviors of companies on its platform, freelance work marketplace Upwork has AI to be the fastest growing category for 2023, noting that posts for generative AI jobs increased more

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Crayon

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Last week, I used data from Crayon’s competitor tracking software to show you that your competitors are talking about AI 5x more than they did in 2022.

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Smart Data Collective

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The proliferation of big data has had a huge impact on modern businesses. We have a post on some of the industries that have been most affected by big data. However, it has also created some concerns about sustainability. Of course, there are some reasons big data can help make our communities more sustainable. On the other hand, data centers have large carbon footprints, so companies need to find ways to make them more energy efficient.

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Chris Webb BI

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

A few weeks ago an important new feature for managing connections to data sources in the Power BI Service was released: Shareable Cloud Connections. You can read the blog post announcing them here. I won’t describe their functionality because the post already does that perfectly well; I want to focus on one thing in particular that is important for anyone using Power BI with Snowflake (and, I believe BigQuery and probably several other non-Microsoft sources): Shareable Cloud Connections al

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

It all started from 2017 onwards, when Apple’s Safari, Mozilla’s Firefox, and Microsoft’s Edge started cutting their ties with third-party cookies. Around the same time, Google witnessed more than 160 million users visiting their accounts to manage privacy settings across Google’s products. The picture was clear – it was time to pull the plug.

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FedSavvy

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Editor’s note: We apologize for the Dad joke in the title. This is what happens when middle aged, nerdy business owners have poor supervision and they get access to the website. Founded in 1975, Maximus is a provider of health and human services programs to a variety of federal, state, and local governments through technology development, digitally enabled customer experiences, and clinical health services.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

There comes a time in every IT leader’s life when a key decision must be made: whether to follow an established rule or, as a matter of necessity, break precedent and embark on an alternate course. Management rules typically exist to enable faultless decision-making, set a foundation for consistent operation, and provide protection from risk, observes Ola Chowning, a partner at global technology research and advisory firm ISG.

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Crayon

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

In a perfect world, you can see the future. You know what your competitors are going to do months before they actually do it.

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