Chris Webb BI

JANUARY 24, 2023

SQLBits is happening again this March at the Celtic Manor resort in Wales. It’s the largest in-person Microsoft data technology conference in Europe and probably now the world; it’s also a lot of fun and something I would never miss. I imagine that a lot of you reading this post feel the same way that I do about SQLBits, but it occurred to me that if you’re relatively new in the world of Power BI you might not have heard of it and might not know why it’s such a great even

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CIO

JANUARY 23, 2023

With a career path that wound through R&D, product development, advanced supply chain, and technology, Praveen Jonnala is well positioned to lead a global IT organization as well as take the reins of operations and other core business functions. Jonnala stepped in as CIO at network infrastructure provider CommScope two years ago after more than a dozen years spent at the company in various roles leading business and technology transformation.

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Crayon

JANUARY 25, 2023

In the world of sports, a team that wins three or more championships in the span of only a few years is considered a dynasty. Today, Crayon is celebrating a dynasty of our own in the competitive intelligence market. Crayon has, for the third year in a row, been named a leader in the PMA Pulse.

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Smart Data Collective

JANUARY 25, 2023

Analytics technology is changing the state of many different industries. The construction sector is no exception. Construction companies are projected to spend nearly $19.7 billion on analytics technology by 2027. While a growing number of construction companies are starting to appreciate the importance of analytics technology, some are still unaware of the benefits.

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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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Chris Webb BI

JANUARY 22, 2023

When working in the Power Query Editor in Power BI or Excel, especially when you’re editing M code, you may run into the following error: Expression.Error: A cyclic reference was encountered during evaluation. What does this message mean and what causes this error? In this blog post I’ll explain. The first step to understanding what’s going on here is to understand how Power Query evaluates the steps in a query.

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Crayon

JANUARY 23, 2023

When your win/loss data is disconnected from your competitive intelligence tool, trying to understand your differentiators is like trying to appreciate the Mona Lisa from a mere 6 inches away — you kind of get it, but it’s nowhere close to the experience of seeing the full picture (or painting in this case).

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Smart Data Collective

JANUARY 25, 2023

The biggest threat to digital security is weaponized artificial intelligence (AI) , which is ubiquitous and damaging. AI is neither good nor bad, but the people behind it can distinguish between AI being an asset or a threat. Cyber-attacks have grown in frequency and sophistication and have become more difficult to detect and stop. The profitability of hacking into data systems in the black market has propelled this threat, causing security experts to lag.

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mention

JANUARY 25, 2023

Creating the perfect Instagram caption is no easy task. You need to channel your most creative self into making something witty and eye-catching to encapsulate the photograph you are posting in just a few words. Of course, finding these magical words can be difficult. However, with the right motivation and some helpful tips on crafting the ultimate caption (emojis included), you’ll develop the art of writing captions that will leave your followers wanting more.

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CIO

JANUARY 26, 2023

IT leaders seeking to drive enterprise growth through technology investments are often saddled with budgets that make their tasks of increasing the top and bottom lines challenging. The year 2023 seems to be no different. Despite an estimated increase to IT budgets of 5.1% on average for 2023, research firm Gartner points to a projected 6.5% global inflation rate, an ongoing talent squeeze, and persistent supply issues as a triple threat to CIOs’ ability to realize time to value for their tech i

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 27, 2023

Sales prospecting is arguably the most critical part of a sales professional’s workflow. No matter how skilled the salesperson or how strong the product, there won’t be a deal to win if they can’t connect with the right people at the right time with the right message. Sales prospecting is a foundational element for a revenue team — it’s the practice of identifying and connecting with potential customers to initiate the sales cycle.

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Smart Data Collective

JANUARY 25, 2023

Modern data is an increasingly overwhelming field, with new information being created and absorbed by businesses every second of the day. Instead of drawing in the sheer speed of production that we’re encountering, many businesses have moved into effective data management strategies. Of all of those tactics, storing structured data in databases is by far one of the most effective.

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Intelligence Node

JANUARY 23, 2023

Lyle Walker, VP of Strategy at Intelligence Node, is a distinguished retail leader with 30+ years of experience across global retailers, brands, and tech providers. Drawn to the company culture, The post Industry Veteran & Strategy VP Lyle Walker on Intelligence Node’s Superior Technology & Processes appeared first on Blog.

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CIO

JANUARY 23, 2023

OpenAI has landed billions of dollars more funding from Microsoft to continue its development of generative artificial intelligence tools such as Dall-E 2 and ChatGPT. A move that is likely to unlock similar investments from competitors — Google in particular — and open the way for new or improved software tools for enterprises large and small. Microsoft stands to benefit from its investment in three ways.

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Primary Intelligence

JANUARY 23, 2023

Boston and Draper, UT – Primary Intelligence , the leader in win-loss analysis, and Crayon , the premier competitive intelligence platform, today announced a first of its kind integration that seamlessly embeds valuable win-loss insights directly into competitive intelligence deliverables. With this integration, revenue teams can instantly view the competitive intel and win/loss insights they need to win more deals.

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Smart Data Collective

JANUARY 26, 2023

Keeping your IT infrastructure in-tact while moving or relocating to a new location is a top priority at most organizations, especially cloud-centric companies. Given that IT increasingly affects every touchpoint of your business, any downtime can derail operations across the board, or worse result in theft or loss of data with far reaching consequences.

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Alpha Sense BI

JANUARY 27, 2023

Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the pharma industry has experienced rapid, radical change. From billion-dollar funding for research on widespread health adversities to manufacturing new technologies to address them, the virus has ramped up lucrative investment opportunities in nearly every industry sector. And there’s no sign of market activity slowing anytime soon, as geopolitical factors and variants of COVID-19 continue to open new doors for funneling capital.

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CIO

JANUARY 25, 2023

As CIO of United Airlines, Jason Birnbaum is laser focused on using technology and data to enable the company’s 86,000 employees to create as seamless a customer travel experience as possible. “Our goal is to improve the entire travel process from when you plan a trip to when you plan the next trip,” says Birnbaum, who joined the airline in 2015 and became CIO last July.

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Dataversity

JANUARY 24, 2023

Data-driven decision-making is a critical aspect of modern business operations, with most organizations leveraging enterprise applications to execute their business processes easily and effectively. However, the users of these tools have historically needed to make a majority of their decisions manually, outside the software, creating inefficiencies that have a negative impact on operations.

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Netbasequid

JANUARY 25, 2023

Trend identification and tracking are fantastic ways to capture insight into audiences and the things they love. With it, companies can develop strategic plans to promote existing ideas or uncover entirely new ideas. The exercise offers a bevy of exciting and unknown opportunities just waiting to be discovered, and we discussed how this benefits the media and entertainment industry in our latest interview with Jeremy Whitham, Strategist in Customer Success at NetBase Quid.

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Alpha Sense BI

JANUARY 25, 2023

Over the last three years, the COVID-19 pandemic brought new energy to manufacturing vaccines for a myriad of global diseases and health conditions. New waves of virus cases and resulting death tolls were mostly predictable due to disease modelers being largely accurate–allowing everyone to, in some sense, know when a new wave was coming and its potential threat.

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CIO

JANUARY 26, 2023

It feels like just yesterday that we were promised that cloud servers cost just pennies. You could rent a rack with the spare change behind the sofa cushions and have money left for an ice cream sandwich. Those days are long gone. When the monthly cloud bill arrives, CFOs are hitting the roof. Developer teams are learning that the pennies add up, sometimes faster than expected, and it’s time for some discipline.

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Speaker: Evelyn Chou

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Dataversity

JANUARY 26, 2023

AI and data science have remained areas of focus in the last year and will continue to be top of mind for many tech companies in the coming year. Wearables, especially those with health monitoring capabilities, have also grown abundant as medical and consumer companies alike ramp up their offerings in response to increased demand. […] The post What to Expect from AI, Data Science, and Wearables in Health Care in 2023 appeared first on DATAVERSITY.

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IBI

JANUARY 23, 2023

Reading Time: 3 minutes Companies today are grappling with a wealth of unstructured data from multiple sources—email and other digital messaging communications, social media channels, documents and PDFs, IoT sensors and server logs, and image and audio files, just to name just a few. And while this may seem like a scattering of unrelated information, unstructured data can actually offer some significant advantages—if organizations can ensure its quality.

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Weidert Group

JANUARY 26, 2023

OpenAI, an artificial intelligence (AI) research laboratory, changed everything on November 30, 2022, when it released ChatGPT, a dynamic, new chatbot. “Everything” may sound a bit extreme, but numbers don’t lie: ChatGPT experienced 1,000,000 users … in just 5 days. The chatbot is basically a conversation with a robot; questions are answered (nothing new), but it also revises its answers based on the followup it receives from the human.

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CIO

JANUARY 25, 2023

Based in Pittsburgh and privately owned, grocery chain Giant Eagle, with 34,000 employees across 570 locations, raced to deliver new digital experiences and buying capabilities for their customers during those intensely challenging early months of the pandemic. And it’s during that time when Ball joined, in June 2020. “The pandemic certainly accelerated the growth and adoption of buying online, and that certainly caused us to accelerate the landscape and breadth of the offering we have,” he says

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