CIO

JULY 28, 2023

Tight budgets and labor shortages have remained an ongoing challenge for IT leaders in 2023. As a result, CIOs are looking at ways of doing more with less, while continuing to digitally transform their organizations. How can we free up funds in one area to invest or innovate in another area of the business? This is especially critical within physical operations – the industries that drive more than 40% of the global GDP – as organizations like ABF Freight and Liberty Energy look for ways to oper

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Crayon

JULY 25, 2023

Here at Crayon we surveyed the market for the 2023 State of Competitive Intelligence report to get a deeper understanding of how teams rank the importance of different types of intelligence. More specifically, we listed intel source options and asked “How valuable do you consider each source of intelligence?

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Zoominfo

JULY 27, 2023

Businesses in virtually every industry are being pushed to modernize their go-to-market strategy, with a premium on the data-driven, automation-enabled convergence of sales, marketing, and operations. As part of this evolution, the most advanced marketing teams are taking a page from their sales counterparts and using scalable plays to take their account-based marketing (ABM) strategy to the next level.

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Smart Data Collective

JULY 24, 2023

Vendor Management Systems (VMS) have become an indispensable tool for streamlining procurement and fostering strong vendor relationships. With the advent of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, where the lines between physical, digital, and biological spheres are increasingly blurred, a new transformational player has emerged on the VMS scene: Artificial Intelligence (AI).

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CIO

JULY 28, 2023

Generative AI (GAI) is at the forefront of nearly everyone’s minds. Consumers want to use it to improve their digital experiences, organizations want to use it to cut costs and be more efficient, and employees are learning how to harness its power to make their jobs easier. As GAI rapidly matures, it’s essential to dream big about its possibilities and be realistic about implementing it strategically and impactfully in ways that can improve your operations.

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Chris Webb BI

JULY 23, 2023

In the first post in this series I described the events in Log Analytics that can be used to understand throughput – the speed that Power BI can read from your dataset when importing data from it – during refresh. While the individual events are easy to understand when you look at a simple example they don’t make it easy to analyse the data in the real world, so here’s a KQL query that takes all the data from all these events and gives you one row per partition per refres

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Smart Data Collective

JULY 26, 2023

Big data has driven major changes in the e-commerce sector in recent years. E-commerce brands spent over $16 billion on analytics in 2022 and are projected to spend over $38 billion by 2028. One of the biggest benefits of data analytics is that it can help e-commerce brands optimize their logistics and fulfillment processes. Keep reading to learn more.

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CIO

JULY 28, 2023

The term neurodiversity covers a range of conditions, as well as the various spectrums within each. So each neurodiverse professional’s experience is unique, but speaking for myself, being neurodiverse has been a huge competitive advantage in my technology career. The ability to pivot fast and hyperfocus are strengths, not weaknesses, and a leader that can do both effectively is an asset, not a liability.

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mention

JULY 28, 2023

In the ever-evolving digital marketing landscape, affiliate marketing has cemented its place as a potent, ROI-driven strategy. By leveraging the networks and influence of affiliates, businesses amplify their reach, fostering trust and driving conversions. Affiliate marketing is a symbiotic arrangement where a business rewards affiliates (individuals or companies) for each visitor or customer brought in by their marketing efforts.

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Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, Terrence Sheflin, and Mahyar Ghasemali

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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Zoominfo

JULY 26, 2023

For years, go-to-market leaders lived by the laws of growth through sales capacity. The mentality was simple: if you want to increase revenue, hire more salespeople. Today, rapidly changing technology is altering that equation. Experts say that standout growth will come from teams that double down on productivity. “What we’re seeing in the market is companies running with smaller teams and supplying them with more accurate and highly personalized datasets, to drive more revenue,” says Mill

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Smart Data Collective

JULY 24, 2023

Analytics technology has been a huge gamechanger for the sports industry. Fortune Business Insights reports that the sports industry spent $2.98 billion on analytics last year. That figure is projected to keep growing at a rate of 28.7% a year until 2030. Nabil M Abbas of Towards Data Science talked about one of the most interesting ways that data analytics is changing the NBA.

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CIO

JULY 26, 2023

Dr Setia, also the chairperson of the centre for digital transformation at the business school, teaches graduate-level courses on the leadership of digital organizations, strategic management of digital innovations, and digital transformation. He has previously taught for many years at Michigan State University and the University of Arkansas in the US.

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Aqute Intelligence

JULY 26, 2023

Social media has completely revolutionized the internet landscape in the last decade. Today, keeping your finger on the pulse means being “extremely online.” If you’re scrolling through multiple news feeds in background tabs while reading this post, you might be extremely online too. When it comes to evaluating a brand’s perception in the eyes of the public, social media gives us a fair approximation.

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Zoominfo

JULY 25, 2023

In the not-so-distant past, a significant portion of a typical business-to-business (B2B) sales professional’s life revolved around in-person meetings with key prospects and high-value clients. But the long-running effects of digital disruption, coupled with the sudden shock of COVID-driven remote work, have changed the game. Today, as much as 80% of B2B decision-makers prefer remote or even fully self-serve sales interactions.

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Smart Data Collective

JULY 26, 2023

Put your thinking caps on and picture this—an undiscovered gold mine of healthcare data. Think of the hidden gems of insights, possible breakthroughs, and treasure buried in mountains of patient info, health stats, and treatment results. Talk about striking gold! But getting that treasure chest open and turning it into cash? That’s not a walk in the park, but hey, we’re up for a good adventure!

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CIO

JULY 26, 2023

Companies moving to the cloud often find themselves at a crossroads near the midpoint of their migrations, spending more than they intended and getting less than they hoped. Often that’s because their IT organization isn’t equipped with the culture, mindset, and skills necessary to capitalize on the cloud. Andy Nallappan has had a long career in IT, including CIO roles, but his current job at Broadcom is managing the company’s external cloud platform, DevOps, and SaaS operations across multiple

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mention

JULY 24, 2023

Nowadays, in such a competitive digital landscape, businesses need to utilize every tool and marketing channel possible to stand out from the crowd. Many business owners make the mistake of perceiving social media activity, advertisements, and strategies as a standalone channel to generate leads and promote their brands. Similarly, many view SEO as something that’s disparate from their other marketing activities.

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Netbasequid

JULY 28, 2023

Barbie is undeniably a hit in movie theaters, grossing $162M USD in its opening weekend alone. This success did not happen spontaneously, though. In the months leading up to its release, the film made brands’ dreams come true with momentum-building promotions that elevated the movie and its partners’ brands and products. Exploring brand mentions in the context of “Barbie” over the past six months, we see several ranging from toys and fashion to travel and fitness.

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Smart Data Collective

JULY 23, 2023

Data can feel like an inaccessible word for small businesses. You want to use business intelligence effectively, but you feel that you don’t have the resources at your disposal to do so. While it is true that Fortune 500 companies use their data at a higher level than most stores on Main Street can afford to do, that isn’t to say that analytics is the privilege of only the wealthy.

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CIO

JULY 26, 2023

ServiceNow is adding new features to its Now Assist generative AI assistant that comes bundled with the company’s Now platform, designed to help organizations automate workflows. The new capabilities of Now Assist, which include case summarization and text-to-code, are compatible with all workflows and are designed to drive productivity and efficiency for organizations, the company said.

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Domo

JULY 26, 2023

The 2023 Women’s World Cup kicked off on July 20 in Australia and New Zealand (ANZ). It’s a good time to reflect on the lead-up to the tournament and examine the weight of expectations it’s carrying. Beyond being the global flagship event for women’s football, it is also a litmus test on the current state of gender equality in sports—and society. It’s also an interesting example of how data may not tell the whole story and how much one’s perspective (i.e., “persona” in data-speak) matters.

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Dataversity

JULY 28, 2023

Gartner technology analysts predict that organizations leveraging augmented analytics solutions will grow at twice the rate of those that do not use these solutions. Those organizations that provide self-serve augmented analytics to their business users can achieve market goals and stay abreast of the competition with fact-based decision-making and a team that leverages analytics daily to make those […] The post Predictive Analytics Use Cases for Citizen Data Scientists appeared first on D

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Smart Data Collective

JULY 26, 2023

Big data has become an invaluable aspect to most modern businesses. Nevertheless, many companies have been reluctant to Harvard Business Review reports that only 30% of businesses have a data strategy. However, companies with data strategies are far more successful than those without. Companies using big data reportedly have 115% higher ROIs. However, running a data-driven business isn’t always easy.

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CIO

JULY 26, 2023

Over the past three or four years, the industry has been abuzz with the concept of delivering converged security and networking features via the cloud. Secure Access Service Edge combines networking solutions like SD-WAN with cloud-delivered security like firewall as a service (FWaaS), cloud access security broker (CASB), and secure web gateway (SWG).

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Kompyte

JULY 25, 2023

Imagine being a soccer player who never studies the other team's game plans, a chef who never samples from other kitchens, or an artist who doesn’t study masters in their craft.

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Speaker: Evelyn Chou

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