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MARCH 20, 2024

France’s competition authority fined Google, its parent company Alphabet, and two subsidiaries a total of €250 million ($271 million) for breaching a previous agreement on using copyrighted content for training its Bard AI service, now known as Gemini. The Autorité de la concurrence said Wednesday that the search giant failed to comply with a June 2022 settlement over the use of news stories in its search results, News and Discover pages.

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Chris Webb BI

MARCH 3, 2024

If you’re tuning a DirectQuery semantic model in Power BI one of the most important things you need to measure is the total amount of time spent querying your data source(s). Now that the queries Power BI generates to get data from your source can be run in parallel it means you can’t just sum up the durations of the individual queries sent to get the end-to-end duration.

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Smart Data Collective

MARCH 7, 2024

Analytics and reporting have become indispensable in the rapidly evolving healthcare landscape, driving transformation across patient care, operational efficiency, and strategic decision-making. These valuable tools enable providers to delve into vast amounts of health data for insights that enhance outcomes, personalize treatments plans, and deepen understanding of health trends.

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MARCH 7, 2024

Amazon Amazon Trends & Industry Predictions for Sellers [2024] By Tinuiti Team Mar 07 2024 2023 was yet another huge year for Amazon and the retail media sector as a whole, bringing with it new ad placements, partnerships and measurement capabilities, relaunched platforms, a major IPO and more. 2024 retail media ad spend is forecasted to reach nearly $60B —continuing to grow at least 21% YoY through 2027—making “retail media the fastest growing ad spending channel in all of

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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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MARCH 27, 2024

For this article, we’ve consulted with over a dozen prominent business people and online reputation experts on the most burning questions of online reputation management. They’ve shared their ideas, best practices, and success cases, translating into a unique knowledge source to fix online reputation you’re about to tap into. _ Online reputation is fragile.

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CIO

MARCH 27, 2024

“It’s been known since the 1990s that a large-scale quantum computer will be able to break many of the crypto systems we rely on for security,” says Dustin Moody, leader of Post Quantum Cryptography (PQC) at the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) in Maryland. In 1994, American mathematician Peter Shor developed quantum algorithms to factor integers and solve the discrete logarithm problem.

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Chris Webb BI

MARCH 24, 2024

I recently took part in a webinar with Denny Lee, Liping Huang and Marius Panga from Databricks on the subject of best practices for using Power BI on Databricks. You can view the recording on LinkedIn here: [link] …or on YouTube here: My section at the beginning covering Power BI best practices for Import and DirectQuery doesn’t contain any new information – if you’ve been following the DirectQuery posts on this blog or read the DirectQuery guidance docs here and here th

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Smart Data Collective

MARCH 7, 2024

The advent of sophisticated data analytics tools has revolutionized how businesses approach marketing. With an abundance of customer data at their fingertips, marketers are now empowered to understand their audience like never before.

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FedSavvy

MARCH 29, 2024

We’re back with our third and final installment of our ITES-3S to 4S series ! Our last blog featured an overview of select major ITES-3S task orders awarded. This blog quickly explores aspects of contract award decisions and protests related to ITES-3S task order awards. Protests…what drives them on ITES-3S? Even with no protests being allowed for task orders under $25 million in value, there are still plenty of protests against ITES-3S decisions.

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MARCH 20, 2024

Whether you’re tackling negative publicity or encouraging positive feedback from customers, there’s always a need for constant vigilance and proactive online reputation management. Creating an online reputation management strategy can help your brand deal with or prepare for negative attention. But beyond safeguarding your business from negative feedback, reputation management also allows you to build trust and strengthen your brand’s credibility.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 21, 2024

As B2B prospects demand increasingly personalized experiences, incorporating account-based marketing (ABM) throughout the customer acquisition funnel becomes increasingly important. But what does full-funnel integration look like in practice? Here are some practical steps that marketers can take to improve outcomes at each stage of the ABM integration process.

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CIO

MARCH 4, 2024

Artificial intelligence (AI) is delivering rapid change for Australian business by raising customers’ expectations, generating new competitive challenges, and creating opportunities for new products and services. This rapid change demands a rapid response, but the strength of that response depends greatly on two factors – the agility of systems and processes and the availability of skilled workers to run them.

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Chris Webb BI

MARCH 17, 2024

There’s a lot of excitement about Copilot in Power BI and in Fabric as a whole. The number one question I’m asked about Copilot by customers is “How much does it cost?” and indeed there have been two posts on the Fabric blog here and here attempting to answer this question. The point I want to make in this post, though, is that it’s the wrong question to ask.

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MARCH 14, 2024

Why are startups increasingly aligning with artificial intelligence and the gig economy? It’s simple: AI and contractors offer them agility and precision in a competitive market. Startups are unique beasts striving to disrupt markets with limited resources but boundless innovation. To maintain this delicate balance, they often turn to AI and contractors for a boost.

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FedSavvy

MARCH 27, 2024

We’re back with the second installment of our ITES-3S series ! Our last blog featured an overview of the contract vehicle, including a look at the top winners, customers and small business trends. In this blog, we will focus on the top task orders awarded thus far. Top ITES-3S Task Orders As mentioned previously, ITES-3S is utilized by a diverse set of Army departments and commands.

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MARCH 25, 2024

With the rise of digital marketing, the business world has evolved into a competitive market. Every business is now doing its best to stay ahead of its competitors. This can be in terms of product development, customer service, customer experience, or anything else. In such a scenario, a competitive analysis report is a crucial tool to understand your competitors and the industry landscape better.

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Tinuiti

MARCH 20, 2024

Paid Media Updates Media Updates: TV Subscription Loss, TikTok Bill Awaiting Senate Action, YouTube CTV Enhancements By Tinuiti Innovation & Growth Team Mar 20 2024 Key Highlights:  TV & Audio : Major pay-TV providers lost ~5m subscribers in 2023, an acceleration from their 4.6m net loss in 2022 Paid Social : While the TikTok bill awaits Senate action, advertisers are proceeding with business as usual knowing that a forced sale would not immediately disrupt platform operations Displ

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MARCH 4, 2024

It’s one of those sayings that sticks around: People quit managers, not jobs. But, for all its staying power, is it actually accurate? When it comes to why your best IT managers quit, the answer is yes, no, and maybe. Yes, top managers — like all high performers — are less likely to tolerate working for a bad boss; because they typically are more driven (which is why they’re valuable employees), they’re more willing to seek a better gig.

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Chris Webb BI

MARCH 31, 2024

By far the most exciting announcement for me this week was the new release of Power BI Report Builder that has Power Query built in, allowing you to connect to far more data sources in paginated reports than you ever could before. There’s a very detailed blog post and video showing you how this new functionality works here: [link] The main justification for building this feature was to allow customer to build paginated reports on sources like Snowflake or BigQuery, something which had only

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Smart Data Collective

MARCH 7, 2024

When it comes to owning and operating a small business, cybersecurity can often feel like the last priority on the list. However, failing to install and frequently update robust cybersecurity measures can have dire consequences.

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FedSavvy

MARCH 25, 2024

The Information Technology Enterprise Solutions – 3 Services (ITES-3S) contract vehicle is a mandatory $12.1 billion multiple award IDIQ contract vehicle awarded by the Army Computer Hardware Enterprise Software and Solutions (CHESS) office within Program Executive Office (PEO) Enterprise Information Systems (EIS) in coordination with the Army Contracting Command – Rock Island (ACC-RI).

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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

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MARCH 11, 2024

Ever thought about how a podcast could be a game-changer for your brand’s story? Well, you’re in the right place, and it’s time to tune in. Although this medium has been around for two decades, it has only recently ascended to the status of one of the most versatile and effective ways to reach an audience. Today, we’re going to be cutting through the noise and diving into the nuts and bolts of making podcast content that manages to grab attention and actively keeps it.

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Domo

MARCH 8, 2024

The 96th Academy Awards happens on Sunday, March 10. I’m writing this on the Wednesday before—and, if all goes to plan, you’ll be reading our data story on the Oscars on Friday. (Unless you’re reading the Domo on Data backlog, in which case—hi! You can find our full log of stories here. ) I share this time stamp because it means one critical thing, and it’s something many of us have in common: I’m in a rush to build something worthy of our loyal readership.

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CIO

MARCH 7, 2024

The construction industry in many countries around the world is facing a labor shortage crisis. The workforce is aging, fewer young people are entering the field, and those who are working have to take on longer hours to meet the demand. The issue particularly acute in Japan, where strict overtime regulations started in 2024. For construction to continue at the pace needed, something has to change.

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Chris Webb BI

MARCH 10, 2024

Many Power BI connectors for relational databases, such as the SQL Server connector, have an advanced option to control whether relationship columns are returned or not. By default this option is on. Returning these relationship columns adds a small overhead to the time taken to open a connection to a data source and so, for Power BI DirectQuery semantic models, turning this option off can improve report performance slightly.

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