Crayon

MARCH 25, 2021

If I had to summarize the brand new 2021 State of Competitive Intelligence Report with a single word, I’d use the word revenue. Now more than ever, companies are growing their revenue by tracking, analyzing, and acting on their competitors’ movements. This raises an important question: How? If you were to look at all the companies that are yielding returns on their competitive intelligence investments, what commonalities would you observe?

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Cipher

MARCH 25, 2021

Market and competitive intelligence (M/CI) is an essential component of successful organizations. But it’s a very complex field. There’s a network of stakeholders to manage, an unfathomable amount of data, and sometimes, a lack of clarity across the organization. Knowing how to recognize and react to these common challenges is a critical skill for competitive intelligence professionals.

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Smart Data Collective

MARCH 26, 2021

Machine learning (ML) is an innovative tool that advances technology in every industry around the world. From the most subtle advances, like Netflix recommendations, to life-saving medical diagnostics or even writing content , machine learning facilitates it all. Due to its constant learning and evolution, the algorithms are able to adapt based on success and failure.

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Octopus

MARCH 25, 2021

How Competitive Intelligence helped transform a British icon This article explains How Competitive Intelligence helped transform a British icon. It is in our serious of real life case. The post How Competitive Intelligence helped transform a British icon appeared first on Octopus Competitive Intelligence.

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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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Crayon

MARCH 23, 2021

As the folks here at Crayon combed through the results of our 2021 State of Competitive Intelligence Report , an exciting theme jumped out at us: Competitive intelligence (CI) programs are growing, they’re growing fast, and they’re more important to their organizations than ever before. It was only a year ago that 58% of businesses told us they had CI teams of two or more dedicated professionals.

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Smart Data Collective

MARCH 25, 2021

Business reporting has been around for a long time but the tools and techniques of business intelligence have refined over time and now with the recent popularity of data driven business approach, data has been identified as the most valuable asset of a business and data analytics and reporting has finally found a key place in the business world. Nearly 70% of all companies have a data-driven strategy to grow their organization.

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Octopus

MARCH 24, 2021

What's Competitive Intelligence got to do with Situational Awareness? This article discusses what's Competitive Intelligence got to do with Situational Awareness? It uses British Military examples. And. The post What’s Competitive Intelligence got to do with Situational Awareness? appeared first on Octopus Competitive Intelligence.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 24, 2021

You hire talented sales and marketing professionals and set them up with state-of-the-art CRM and automation tools. Wait, are they working with bad data? Businesses depend on data to fuel business growth. However, if that data isn’t clean, your marketing and sales efforts take a hit. 30-50% of CRM and ERP data is inaccurate,” says Henry Schuck, Founder, and CEO of ZoomInfo.

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Cipher

MARCH 22, 2021

Analyzing a competitor can feel like a high-stakes game of poker. You're watching out for any "tell" that might hint to their business strategy. They're keeping their cards close to their chest until they're ready to call.

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Smart Data Collective

MARCH 25, 2021

The predictive maintenance industry has a great impact on the life of equipment. The process aims to reduce machine downtime, enabling, for example, better maintenance planning. However, the project needs to be well developed for a good monitoring of production. According to data from the US Department of Energy, the savings generated by the application of this model reach up to 30% in maintenance costs, with a reduction of approximately 75% in downtime and up to 45% in downtime.

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Octopus

MARCH 25, 2021

Head of Market and Competitive Intelligence at BT This article is the third in a series. We talk to the Head of Market and Competitive Intelligence at BT, Andrew. The post Head of Market and Competitive Intelligence at BT answers questions appeared first on Octopus Competitive Intelligence.

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Zoominfo

MARCH 25, 2021

Technology has become a ubiquitous aspect of human existence. And a deep understanding of how technology works have become crucial for competing in the professional world. People seeking to add value through innovation depend on applications or data to achieve their objectives. Therefore, coding skills are now essential to competing in any growing industry, such as digital marketing.

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ArchIntel

MARCH 23, 2021

ArchIntel™ -. Some believe that the open-source intelligence process has existed for too long in the shadow of more glamorous forms of intelligence gathering such as the kind of espionage depicted in action novels and films. A blog entry in Security Boulevard, however, said that OSINT may finally be getting the recognition it deserves. Security blogger Johnathan Nelson cited a report released by the Center for Strategic and International Studies Technology and Intelligence Task Force in February

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Smart Data Collective

MARCH 26, 2021

There are a lot of important platforms and tools for data-driven organizations to take advantage. One of the best platforms for companies that care about the benefits of big data is Oracle. If you are a company that is using Oracle to leverage your big data strategy, then you need to know how to get the most out of it. This entails making sure that your data properly backed up.

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mention

MARCH 25, 2021

For our latest installment of “Battle of the Brands”, we analyzed the social media strategies of two of the biggest players in the file sharing game: WeTransfer vs. Dropbox. Using Mention’s powerful social monitoring features , we were able to get insights into how these SaaS businesses’ brand positioning affected their share of voice on social media.

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Intelligence Node

MARCH 25, 2021

This article was first published on Forbes on Oct 7, 2020,, and is authored by Intelligence Node CEO Sanjeev Sularia in his capacity as a member of the Forbes Tech Council. Driven in large part by millennials and Generation Z, the resale, or “recommerce,” market is booming. Currently worth approximately $24 billion, it is projected to reach $51 […].

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ArchIntel

MARCH 23, 2021

ArchIntel™ -. Daniel Ben-Chitrit , a senior product manager at Authentic8 , said in a recent article that while humans are still essential in collecting open-source intelligence data, organizations must also invest in automating their OSINT collection process. In the article published by Security Boulevard, Ben-Chitrit noted that the first part of the OSINT investigative process is data collection.

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Smart Data Collective

MARCH 26, 2021

According to the Gartner Institute, there were 5.8 billion devices connected to the IoT in 2020, increasing productivity and business efficiency. With so much potential for user participation and growth, you may be looking for IOT software development partner to create your own IoT, which is an excellent idea. However, choosing the right partner to develop an IoT application should be made with caution, as IoT applications are more complex than traditional mobile applications that many software

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Timo Elliot

MARCH 25, 2021

My presentation from the SAP Insider Data & Analytics Conference, talking about how traditional analytics barriers, and how the latest technologies can help.

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Vable

MARCH 25, 2021

Budgets and financial planning for library and information services are more important than ever. The end of March is fast approaching, and for many organisations this is also the end of the financial year. We have written about library and information budgets on the Vable blog in previous years, however I wanted to think about what effect the pandemic is having.

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ArchIntel

MARCH 23, 2021

ArchIntel™ -. “The retail automation market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 15.41% over the forecast period (2021-2026).” — Research and Markets. Much has been said about the capabilities of artificial intelligence but few people ever really wonder where those capabilities originate. A recent post by blogger Wendy Toscano tries to demystify the smart machine by explaining that AI is nothing more or less than what its human programmers have put into it.

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Speaker: Evelyn Chou

Choosing the right business intelligence (BI) platform can feel like navigating a maze of features, promises, and technical jargon. With so many options available, how can you ensure you’re making the right decision for your organization’s unique needs? 🤔 This webinar brings together expert insights to break down the complexities of BI solution vetting.

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Weidert Group

MARCH 23, 2021

At Weidert Group, we don’t just maximize the power of inbound marketing with our clients, we fully use it ourselves. Similarly, we don’t just talk about the power of growth-driven design (GDD), we use it on our own website. This blog post — which is more like a mini-case study — dives into a little problem we had with our website speed and explains how we fixed it using the process of growth-driven design.

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SpyFu

MARCH 25, 2021

Although we often like to think of SERP rankings as a meritocracy, the sad reality is that they are not. Often, it’s not the best written or most informative pieces that reach the top of Google—it’s the pages that know how to rank. So how do you get to the top? If you want to increase your organic search traffic and take the top spot on Google for your most important keywords—the ones that will be the foundation of your SEO strategy—you can’t just rely on better content.

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Netbasequid

MARCH 26, 2021

Luxury brands had a big problem when the pandemic hit worldwide in 2020. With people fighting over toilet paper, how could luxury shopping survive? But it did. How exactly did the luxury segment adapt and how are they planning for the future? We cover this and more in our 2021 Luxury Brand Industry Report. It’s fueled by consumer and market intelligence.

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ArchIntel

MARCH 23, 2021

ArchIntel™ -. The question of whether smart machines will eventually replace human workers in all manners of production goes a long way back. An article co-written by organizational behavioralist David De Cremer and chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov said that this will probably not be the case. The authors said that the real question to ask is how can human intelligence work with artificial intelligence to produce augmented intelligence?

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