CIO
APRIL 12, 2024
Global banks and investment firms are currently mulling plans to replace entry-level financial analyst positions with artificial intelligence (AI), with as many as two-thirds of these positions potentially on the chopping block. This anticipated move could completely transform how these companies hire new employees and how they manage and deliver the technology employees use.
Smart Data Collective
APRIL 26, 2024
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mention
APRIL 10, 2024
Monitoring the chatter online is challenging because many things are out of your control. Buyers’ preferences and behaviors are constantly flip-flopping. They aren’t afraid of talking about you online using feedback, unfiltered criticism, or praise. That’s why brand reputation monitoring has become more significant for companies than ever before. Online businesses need to keep track of different channels to protect their reputation.
Chris Webb BI
APRIL 28, 2024
You probably know that semantic models in Power BI can use a fixed amount of memory. This is true of all types of semantic model – Import, Direct Lake and DirectQuery – but it’s not something you usually need to worry about for DirectQuery mode. The amount of memory they can use depends on whether you’re using Shared (aka Pro) or a Premium/Fabric capacity, and if you’re using a capacity how large that capacity is.
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AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.
Domo
APRIL 5, 2024
We listened and we heard you. That’s the message we wanted our community to hear behind all the dazzle and fun of Domopalooza 2024. All year long, we gather feedback from our customers. What’s working well for them? What needs improvement? What changes should we prioritize to enhace their lives, streamline processes, or simplify tasks? Then, at Domopalooza 2024, we unveiled a suite of updates that we call “quality of life improvements,” specifically deisgned based on the community’s feedback.
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CIO
APRIL 16, 2024
It’s Wednesday night. You’re fast asleep aboard the USS Enterprise Star Trek. Suddenly, you wake to an urgent announcement and rush to the bridge of the starship. Captain James T. Kirk is activating warp drive and you see the iconic blurred streaks of light as the spaceship reaches warp speed. Within seconds, you are traveling faster than the speed of light to reach a Klingon war in the Alpha Quadrant–arriving in minutes versus years.
Smart Data Collective
APRIL 8, 2024
Big data technology has played a huge role in driving the demand for blockchain in recent years.
mention
APRIL 26, 2024
Public Relations (PR) is a powerful tool that helps shape how people see your business. It can make your company more trustworthy and help it succeed. Basically, it’s a strategic communication process that boosts your brand. What is PR? In this blog post, I’ll explain everything there is to know about PR practice. You’ll learn what PR can do for your business , the strategies that maximize its impact, and real-world examples that prove its effectiveness.
Chris Webb BI
APRIL 21, 2024
It’s time for another short post on the free books that various authors have been kind enough to send me over the last few months. Full disclosure: these aren’t reviews as such, they’re more like free publicity in return for the free books, and I don’t pretend to be unbiased; also the Amazon UK links have a affiliate code in that gives me a kickback if you buy any of these books.
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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.
TBR
APRIL 22, 2024
While macroeconomic uncertainty challenges year-to-year revenue growth in the IT services sector, the trajectory beyond 2024 appears promising, largely due to the resilience of managed services bookings. to read more vendor analysis from our recently published research. Tight Spending Is Pressuring Consulting Revenue Growth, But Managed Services Bookings Growth Will Push Out Revenue Generation Beyond 2024 Macroeconomic uncertainty will cause year-to-year IT services revenue growth to decelerate
Aqute Intelligence
APRIL 19, 2024
Competitive intelligence (CI) services offer businesses valuable insights into their market and competition. These services are becoming essential for companies seeking informed decision-making and a strategic edge. Competitive intelligence services: What is it, and why do you need it? Competitive intelligence (CI) involves gathering and analyzing information about your competitors and the market.
CIO
APRIL 25, 2024
Oracle is adding more AI capabilities to its Fusion Cloud CX that provides software for sales, marketing, and service teams across an enterprise, the company announced on Thursday. The new capabilities, based on the company’s OCI Generative AI service , include generative AI -assisted answer generation, assisted scheduling for field service, opportunity quality scoring, and seller engagement recommendations.
Smart Data Collective
APRIL 2, 2024
Big data has led to major breakthroughs in the web development profession in recent years.
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mention
APRIL 24, 2024
Crisis management refers to an organization’s response to a critical event or crisis. A critical event can be a negative disruption, an unanticipated incident, a natural disaster, or any threat that negatively impacts employees, stakeholders, property, or a brand’s reputation. Organizations must stay prepared with a strategized plan to respond, communicate during a crisis , and recover it.
Chris Webb BI
APRIL 14, 2024
There are a couple of nice new features to do with table joins (or merges as they are known in M) and query folding in Power Query in the April release of Power BI Desktop that I want to highlight. Anti Joins now fold First of all, a few months ago I wrote a post about how the built-in anti join functionality didn’t fold in Power Query. The good news is that it now does on SQL Server-related sources, so no more workarounds are needed.
FedSavvy
APRIL 18, 2024
This blog summarizes some of the significant contract wins and losses that have shaped the current federal contracting landscape today. This includes successful defense of recompetes and some major takeaway contract wins. Keep reading for some highlighted wins and losses in the GOVCON space. Figure 1 – A summary of recent, major contract wins. Amentum wins Army takeaway contract In October 2023, Amentum was awarded a five-year, $327 million contract to engineer, integrate and test advanced proto
TBR
APRIL 16, 2024
PC vendors are embracing the AI PC in hopes that this new offering will propel a vigorous recovery from the recent post-pandemic slump in PC sales. There are, however, only a few unexciting current AI applications that take advantage of the new AI hardware. Compelling applications that rely on PC and smartphone hardware will become available starting in 2025.
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CIO
APRIL 1, 2024
Despite the promise generative AI holds for boosting corporate productivity, closing the gap between its potential and business value remains one of CIOs’ chief challenges. It isn’t for lack of effort, as recent research suggests. Sixty-six percent of C-level executives are ambivalent or dissatisfied with the progress of their AI or GenAI efforts, according to Boston Consulting Group 1.
Smart Data Collective
APRIL 21, 2024
A new startups has released some major breakthroughs in blockchain technology by launching the Reactive Network.
mention
APRIL 25, 2024
Recently, Meta, Facebook’s parent company, announced a significant shift in its API, affecting how demographic data is accessed and reported. This change has implications for businesses and marketers who rely on accurate insights to inform their strategies. Understanding the Shift In their recent blog post , Meta outlined the deprecation of certain metrics within the Facebook Insights API, including those related to demographics at the fan level.
Chris Webb BI
APRIL 7, 2024
The built-in mapping functionality in Power BI paginated reports is fairly basic. However the integration of Power Query into Power BI paginated reports gives you an interesting new way of creating maps in paginated reports: you can call the Azure Maps API using Power Query and display the image returned in an Image report item. In this blog post I’ll show you how.
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Domo
APRIL 17, 2024
Are you ever overwhelmed by how much data you have scattered across your marketing channels and tools? It’s like trying to navigate a maze without a map, piecing together insights from fragmented sources. There’s a solution to this data chaos. At Domo, it’s called a connector. So…what’s a connector? If you work in marketing (like me), you may not know what connectors are and how powerful they can be.
Zoominfo
APRIL 9, 2024
Before solving their biggest CRM cleansing challenges, go-to-market teams need to define the rules of engagement for their data. The idea is to keep a living, breathing CRM that’s constantly being updated with customized rule-based workflows — a CRM that’s always “on.” To make this a reality, all businesses need to tailor their data hygiene strategy to fit their unique processes, goals, and requirements.
CIO
APRIL 18, 2024
A new breed of AI assistant has set its sights on the enterprise user in recent months, with Microsoft and other vendors promising huge productivity gains that offset the cost. But Microsoft still has work to do on its value proposition. Its Copilot for Microsoft 365, a high-profile offering among the growing list of AI agents, costs $30 per seat per month, with a 300-seat minimum.
Smart Data Collective
APRIL 22, 2024
Smart factories offer a number of new solutions for manufacturing companies trying to bolster their bottom lines.
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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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