November, 2017

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Qualified Leads vs. Unqualified Leads

Zoominfo

The biggest mistake you can make in the B2B world is one that is all too common—chasing the wrong leads. You know the feeling—you schedule numerous calls, send emails, and hold meetings only to learn that the person on the other line isn’t interested in your product or service. First, let’s get this out of the way—a qualified lead is defined by three main criteria: Need: the prospect has a problem that your product can fix.

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Key Performance Indicators for All Users

Elegant BI

Multidimensional KPIs that are Easy to Use and Produce Consistent Results! Measuring Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) are important to every business, no matter how small or large. In the past, the process of identifying and measuring KPIs was daunting and it required the involvement of analysts and other experts. Today, BI tools and solutions provide multidimensional KPI analytics and feature tools that allow business users to leverage KPI Analytics without the assistance of IT staff or data s

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Visualise SQLite Data in Power BI

BI Insight

As the name implies, SQLite is a light weight transactional SQL database engine. It is open-source and free for use either for personal commercial. SQLite is widely used in mobile apps and many other desktop applications that need an internal light weight free SQL database. In this post I explain how to visualise SQLite data … Continue reading Visualise SQLite Data in Power BI.

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Forget volume and variety, focus on velocity (Part 1)

Domo

When you think of Big Data, you may imagine the billions of rows and petabytes of data many companies are struggling to manage and process on a regular basis. You may also think about the challenges of handling diverse unstructured data such as audio, video, image and text-based files coming from an ever-increasing number of sources. In terms of the three V’s of Big Data , the volume and variety aspects of Big Data receive the lion’s share of attention.

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Prepare Now: 2025s Must-Know Trends For Product And Data Leaders

Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, and Terrence Sheflin

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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Govern first, then ask many questions

Athena Solutions BI

Join me for this webinar hosted by Information Management Live. Thursday November 16, 2017. 1 PM ET/10 AM PT. The path to fruitful analytics starts with good, trusted, high-quality data. Trust is the magic word, because when users believe in their data, they use it to make better decisions. Governance is the key to trust, and increasingly, organizations are discovering that data governance practices work best when they are woven into the natural data lifecycle.

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Are you collaborating or building a kingdom?

Apprize360 Intelligence

“All of the great empires of the future will be empires of the mind.” - Winston Churchill Within hyper-competitive companies, cooperation can be seen as weakness. Despite all that’s known about the strength of teams, powerful individuals still view information sharing and collaboration as a loss of recognition and control. Some will even subvert collaboration, often without meaning to.

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Cross-Tab Reporting is More Relevant Than Ever

Elegant BI

Cross-Tab Analytics Proves Its Value as a Relevant, Powerful BI Reporting Tool! When it comes to business data and business intelligence, no one wants to get caught by surprise. If you are missing data, or if you don’t have the ability to get a 360° view of your data, you just know you are going to miss something and that something will probably be very important.

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Import Power BI Desktop Model to SSAS Tabular 2017 Using Azure Analysis Services

BI Insight

NOTE: This method is no longer available (from 1st March 2019) as Microsoft discontinued supporting Web Designer in Azure portal. Microsoft is working on an alternative solution, but there is no timeframes or details to announce yet. Read more here. In the meantime, you still can import your Power BI Desktop Models to SSAS Tabular … Continue reading Import Power BI Desktop Model to SSAS Tabular 2017 Using Azure Analysis Services.

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2017 Black Friday Infographic

Domo

As Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales continue to balloon year after year, consumer expectations are skyrocketing too. Seamless shopping experiences online and in-store—as well as crystal-clear, relevant sales and carefully-planned inventory—are just a few of many details that make or break the holiday shopping season. Retailers who want to do well and make the year count (the holiday season can bring in as much as 30% of annual sales) need to stay ahead of the competition on all fronts.

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Gain a Competitive Edge With This Scenario Planning Toolkit

In a world where uncertainty and change are constant, scenario planning empowers companies with the agility and competitive edge needed to thrive. Download the toolkit to fortify your business strategy , set up your competitive positioning , and ensure your company is poised to respond to any future scenario.

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Self-Service BI on DM Radio

Athena Solutions BI

Join me on DM Radio. DM Radio / Leave IT Alone – The Vast Value of Self-Service. DATE: November 9, 2017. TIME: 3 PM Eastern / 12 PM Pacific. About the Discussion. As the power of data increases, so does the appetite of those who long to use it. Meanwhile, the changing dynamics of corporate IT often result in smaller teams with greater responsibility.

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Happy Thanksgiving: 7 Win Loss Tips to Improve the Success of Your Program

Ellennaylor

Adopt these 7 Win Loss Tips to Improve Sales and Customer Receptivity to Win Loss interviews. Don’t Let Sales Conduct Your Company’s Win/Loss Interviews. Research from the book, “From a Good Sales Call to a Great Sales Call,” indicates: Salesperson’s assessment is totally wrong — 32%. Salesperson just has part of the story — 28%. Salesperson’s understanding is complete/accurate — 40%.

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Announcing our newest product — News Data Feeds

Contify

Today, we’re excited to launch our newest product?—? News Data Feeds. Organizations that need news updates on companies, business topics, and industries at scale, can now get them as a ready-to-consume feed through our APIs or as RSS/XML. Actionable news updates about companies, business topics, and industries have been central to our Market Intelligence solutions.

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What is Advanced Analytics and How Can it Advance Your Organization?

Elegant BI

The term ‘Advanced Analytics’ can seem daunting to the average business user and even to the average business enterprise but the process is not as complex as it may seem. What is Advanced Analytics? Advanced Analytics is comprised of numerous sophisticated analytical techniques, designed to parse, explore and analyze data and produce results to support business decisions.

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Are Your Impact Comms Resonating With Stakeholders?

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.

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Visualise SQLite Data in Power BI

BI Insight

As the name implies, SQLite is a light weight transactional SQL database engine. It is open-source and free for use either for personal commercial. SQLite is widely used in mobile apps and many other desktop applications that need an internal light weight free SQL database. In this post I explain how to visualise SQLite data … Continue reading Visualise SQLite Data in Power BI.

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What’s in the Future for Facebook Watch?

Domo

Streaming video online has exploded recently, and Facebook has hopped on the trend train. In August of this year, Facebook announced a new feature packed with lofty goals: Facebook Watch. In their announcement in August, Facebook said, “We think Watch will be home to a wide range of shows, from reality, to comedy, to live sports. To help inspire creators and seed the ecosystem, we’ve also funded some shows that are examples of community-oriented and episodic video series.

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The coming crisis for the Chief Marketing Officer

Apprize360 Intelligence

It’s pretty clear that Chief Marketing Officers (CMO) will face a kind of Hunger Games scenario over the next few years. In its top 10 market predictions for CMOs in 2014 – in which #9 was “fragmented marketing IT point products and low adoption rate will inhibit companies' ability to win customers” – IDC foretold a total marketing reformation. "Buyers are evolving their purchase practices faster than vendors are changing their marketing practices.

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Improve Your CI Skill: Read Competitive Intelligence Rescue

Ellennaylor

Learn how to diagnose what needs to be fixed in your competitive intelligence program by reading Competitive Intelligence Rescue. Carolyn Vella and John McGonagle walk us through their experiences rescuing 7 companies in the case study format. Case Studies Vary by Industry and Complexity. DIY (Do it yourself) competitive intelligence. Adding primary research capabilities.

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7 Strategies to Gather (and Actually Use) Competitive Intel from Employees

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.

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Agencies and Competitor Analysis: The Best Data-Driven Techniques

Digimind

A case study on tracking techniques and best practices for social media analysis.

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Predictive Analytics for Business Users

Elegant BI

Leave it to the Software! Predictive Analytics for the Faint of Heart! Assisted Predictive Modeling , Predictive Analytics. Those terms strike terror in the hearts of most business users, and that is understandable. These mysterious-sounding terms sound complicated and lead business users to imagine confounding, confusing algorithms, and endless strings of numbers.

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Import Power BI Desktop Model to SSAS Tabular 2017 Using Azure Analysis Services

BI Insight

NOTE: This method is no longer available (from 1st March 2019) as Microsoft discontinued supporting Web Designer in Azure portal. Microsoft is working on an alternative solution, but there is no timeframes or details to announce yet. Read more here. In the meantime, you still can import your Power BI Desktop Models to SSAS Tabular … Continue reading Import Power BI Desktop Model to SSAS Tabular 2017 Using Azure Analysis Services.

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Adventures in data storytelling: Three key traps to avoid (Part 2)

Domo

Trap #1—the Data Cut Everything starts off the right way as you begin by slicing and dicing the data to discover a meaningful insight. However, once a particular cut of the data yields an interesting insight, nothing is done to then package it up for others. In this scenario, you mistakenly assume because the raw information speaks to you, it will speak equally well to your audience.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

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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Dropbox vs Box: Comparing Pricing, Security and Key Services

Better Buys

Dropbox and Box are cloud-based document management systems (DMS) designed to enable business users to securely share documents, files and other content from anywhere and at any time. Product Overviews The following is some information from our Dropbox and Box reviews that summarizes each product: Dropbox for Business: As one of the largest file-sharing platforms […].

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3 signs you’ve outgrown your BI

Domo

More and more, companies are gravitating away from traditional BI in favor of more extensive business technologies. They’re outgrowing their old BI systems, and chances are, if you’re using traditional BI, you did a long time ago. The fact of the matter is, business intelligence isn’t that intelligent anymore. Or rather, companies need a more comprehensive, real-time solution to keep up with the speed of business and stay competitive.

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Adventures in data storytelling: Three key traps to avoid (part 1)

Domo

As your organization seeks to become more data-driven, data will become an integral part of all communications. It should play a key role in your business meetings, internal conversations, and other daily interactions. As more of your people are exposed to data that is both relevant and crucial to their roles, communicating effectively with data will be an essential skill everyone will need to master—from the CEO to frontline employees.

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Emojis are the new body language

Domo

Some argue that there are certain human emotions, phrases, and experiences that literally cannot be described in words. But can some of them—maybe—be described through emoji? In 2018, we communicate via the written word far more than we ever have. Face-to-face communication is on the decline. People are comfortable texting and emailing at all hours, but many of us cringe at the idea of taking one phone call.

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Maximize Productivity and Simplify IT Management with Conversational AI

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