Crayon

JULY 21, 2021

In business, getting a leg up on the competition isn’t easy. And it’s made all the more difficult by the fact that, in most cases, everybody is trying to get an edge on the rest of the field. Whether that manifests in competitive marketing campaigns, competitive pricing tactics, or even a race to hire the best personnel—companies in the same or overlapping verticals constantly outmaneuver and outposition one another to win customers.

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Cipher

JULY 21, 2021

When you’re starting out on a market research project, the choice of tools can be overwhelming. Even for an exercise as simple as a short customer survey, there are hundreds of different tools you can use.

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CIO

JULY 23, 2021

Data visualization platform Tableau is one of the most widely used tools in the rapidly growing business intelligence (BI) space and individuals with skills in Tableau are in high demand. Market intelligence and advisory firm Mordor Intelligence forecasts the global data visualization market to achieve a compound annual growth rate of 9.69% between 2021 and 2026 as businesses seek to become more analytically driven.

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Smart Data Collective

JULY 21, 2021

On the surface, digital transformation is a simple process. You take a business activity that is old and ineffective/inefficient and re-energize it with new technology. This could be moving your spreadsheets to cloud software or even going so far as to move up from paper to digital. There is nothing inherently wrong with this process, but the way digital transformation is deployed often misses powerful opportunities ripe for the taking.

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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

JULY 23, 2021

Win/loss analysis—the process of determining why deals are won or lost—yields insights that practically everyone across your organization can use to their advantage. Sales reps get insights that they can use to improve their objection-handling tactics. Marketers get insights that they can use to optimize their messaging. Product managers get insights that they can use to adjust their roadmap priorities.

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mention

JULY 21, 2021

Millions of brands use Instagram every day, engaging with their fans and driving brand awareness. From mega-companies such as L’Oréal to mom-and-pop stores, businesses of every size benefit from a strong Instagram presence. Have you always wondered how you could join these companies and make money on Instagram? Given that over one billion people use the insanely popular platform every month, there are many opportunities for marketers and brands alike to make their profiles profitable.

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Smart Data Collective

JULY 20, 2021

Big data technology is incredibly important in modern business. One of the most important applications of big data is with building relationships with customers. Every enterprise wants to improve its business relationship and productivity. Therefore, CRM software comes into the picture to help enterprises achieve their business targets. These software tools rely on sophisticated big data algorithms and allow companies to boost their sales, business productivity and customer retention.

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Primary Intelligence

JULY 21, 2021

In company circles, win loss analysis tends to be regarded as a Marketing department initiative. When brought up to other departments, many tend to ignore win loss insights as they don’t see how such a program can benefit their area. However, win loss analysis is a treasure trove of insights that can benefit many parts of the company beyond marketing.

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Zoominfo

JULY 23, 2021

Chatbots have the power to create a truly buyer-centric experience for customers. But the technology has yet to realize its full potential — until now. Acclaimed data expert and serial entrepreneur Peter Gentsch says in his book, AI in Marketing, Sales, and Services : “To the user, chatbots seem to be ‘intelligent’ due to their informative skills. However, chatbots are only as intelligent as the underlying database.

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Paul Turnley

JULY 19, 2021

It occurred to me that we have put so much effort into promoting best practices and proper design that there is far less information about how to create bad reports and data models. In that light, the purpose of this article is to talk about what to do if you want things to go poorly and make sure your projects fail - if not immediately, then sometime in the future - and if not for you then for whoever inherits the work that you have done.

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Smart Data Collective

JULY 23, 2021

Artificial intelligence has played a very important role in modern cyber attacks. Although AI technology has been very important in creating safeguards to stop these attacks, it has also been used to make these attacks even more vicious. Many hackers are using both social engineering and A I to exploit targets more effectively. A number of countries have engaged in cyber attacks against each other.

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Dataversity

JULY 23, 2021

Click to learn more about author Andreea Jakab. Blockchain applications are becoming more and more popular both in the public and private sectors. However, most people still put an equal sign between blockchain and bitcoin. But are cryptocurrencies the only use case for blockchain? Is that why the massive hype about it emerged in recent […]. The post Blockchain Apps on Bare Metal Servers (Part 1): Big Data and Security appeared first on DATAVERSITY.

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Zoominfo

JULY 23, 2021

Chatbots have the power to create a truly buyer-centric experience for customers. But the technology has yet to realize its full potential — until now. Acclaimed data expert and serial entrepreneur Peter Gentsch says in his book, AI in Marketing, Sales, and Services : “To the user, chatbots seem to be ‘intelligent’ due to their informative skills. However, chatbots are only as intelligent as the underlying database.”.

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Netbasequid

JULY 23, 2021

Understanding consumer emotion is at the top of every brands’ “must understand” list – and if it’s not it should be! The global brands in this report have the pulse of consumers in their respective industries and it shows. For the seventh year in a row, we’re excited to reveal the Top-Loved Global Brands in our Brand Passion Report – and we have a preview of it below.

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Smart Data Collective

JULY 19, 2021

Data analytics technology has been very beneficial for many consumers around the world. You can use data mining and analytics technology to make more informed decisions about purchases that you intend to make. One way that many people benefit from data analytics technology is that it can help them when they need to access financial services. They can use AI tools to figure out their chances of getting approved for a financial application, such as a loan or insurance policy.

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SpyFu

JULY 20, 2021

Quality is often in the eyes of the beholder, so when we want to make quality content, whose eyes do we need to impress? For content marketers and SEOs, the answer is our audience and Google. We learn what our audience believes by interacting with them, but with Google, we’re lucky enough to have them tell us directly: they evaluate quality through the acronym of E-A-T or Expertise, Authoritativeness, and Trustworthiness.

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Zoominfo

JULY 22, 2021

Imagine this scenario: a marketing campaign you develop ends up going to the wrong audience, or a segmentation analysis yields incorrect results because the data wasn’t updated. Fresh, up-to-date data leads to better business outcomes by ensuring that opportunities aren’t missed. And while you can set up automated requests for your API to update your data regularly, there is an easier, more efficient solution: webhooks.

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Netbasequid

JULY 22, 2021

Brand association is all about reinforcing positive attributes about your brand and helping them take hold in the mind of the consumer. Ideally, a positive brand association will elicit an emotional response from your customers that causes them to reach for your brand over the competition. It’s helpful to think about brand association as subliminally “branding” the ideas and feelings you want your consumers to think about into their psyche.

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Smart Data Collective

JULY 20, 2021

Artificial intelligence has become a gamechanger in the banking industry in recent years. The global market for AI in Fintech was valued at nearly $8 billion last year. It is projected to be worth nearly $27 billion by 2026. There are a number of reasons that AI is becoming an integral part of the banking industry. One reason is that it is driving process automation.

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Dataversity

JULY 19, 2021

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Zoominfo

JULY 21, 2021

Imagine your sales team is extremely close to signing an important deal with a prospect. Everyone’s anxious to get the contract signed and the gong in the corner of the office is ready to bang. But then, unexpectedly, the buyer pushes back, not sure if this is the best time. At that moment, with revenue in the balance, the team has to convince the prospect that your product is indeed the right fit and that this soon-to-be customer is a priority.

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Netbasequid

JULY 21, 2021

Whether you are a brand intelligence wizard or just getting a grip on consumer and market intelligence, a grasp of emerging trends is always the next step forward. Why is that? Because emerging trends and themes always define the future, and brands and institutions must adjust to stay competitive. Themes that emerge on the social landscape are the work of the voice of the consumer in action.

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Smart Data Collective

JULY 23, 2021

Do you remember the simpler times when we imagined: “one day, robots will roam the streets and act like people”? It sounded unrealistic, that something other than humans will be able to perform our functions. However, now when technology advances at an unbelievable rate, this is becoming more tangible than ever. It’s no longer a fruit of our imagination, not with chatbots acting like humans and machines doing tons of our work.

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Weidert Group

JULY 19, 2021

After years of sluggish growth (and in several cases decline), followed by a global pandemic that shut down entire nations, you’d think that manufacturing would be on the brink of disaster. However, the manufacturing sector has shown incredible resiliency and innovation, leading to growing optimism and expected growth of 7.2% for the remainder of 2021.

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Zoominfo

JULY 20, 2021

When it’s time to build a technology stack, sales teams are faced with hundreds of solutions that offer lofty promises of automation, efficiency, and higher revenue. But without high-quality data to connect them all, many of those tools can essentially turn into empty boxes that fall short of their goals. When layers of data are tightly integrated with software, sales reps and marketers have the most effective way to successfully engage with prospects and find their next buyers.

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Netbasequid

JULY 20, 2021

Striving to set the bar for offering the most advanced consumer and market intelligence insight available, we are excited to announce that we’ve been named a leader in this rapidly growing market, with NetBase Quid’s inclusion in The Forrester New Wave : AI-Enabled Consumer Intelligence Platforms, Q3 2021 Report! NetBase Quid received the highest possible scores in six out of ten criteria including Data sources, Data onboarding, Analytics and reporting, UX and actionability, Product vision, and

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Smart Data Collective

JULY 19, 2021

When you decide to relocate or broaden your data center, you need to take into account the costs, operational capability, and security. Considering this, more businesses are realizing how collocation offers the answer they need with no burdens of handling their own data center. This is the number one reason why companies choose data center colocation options.

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Similarweb

JULY 22, 2021

Maybe you’ve heard the saying, the best competition is yourself. Well for SEO, this doesn’t apply – at all. Channeling your competitive spirit and using it to analyze your market will allow you to create an effective digital marketing strategy. High-quality competitor research for SEO makes it easier to drive organic traffic from Google search, and pretty much all search engines.

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