CIO
JULY 13, 2020
The world bought into the idea of continual improvement ever since Japanese car companies embraced it in the ‘70s and ate Detroit's lunch. But you can’t improve what you can’t measure – which is why analytics now envelops the entire enterprise, crunching every data set it can find to get a clear view of current reality and suggest a better road ahead.
Crayon
DECEMBER 9, 2020
You work hard to stay on top of your competitors’ moves. You sift through big and small changes alike and analyze the data to identify trends and strategies. But then what do you do with the data? One of the biggest challenges with making use of competitive intelligence (CI) is distributing that intel to the relevant stakeholders within your organization so that your team can take action on your competitive insights.
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Smart Data Collective
NOVEMBER 25, 2020
Machine learning is transforming the financial sector more than anybody could have ever predicted. This technology might be more important than ever during the pandemic, as financial institutions discover that many traditional protocols aren’t nearly as effective. One of the most significant changes brought by advances in machine learning is with the loan underwriting process.
Alexa
NOVEMBER 16, 2020
In a world of social shares and viral content, what good is an amazing piece of content if no one sees it? To get as many eyes on it as possible, your content needs to be shareable. Shareable content spreads across the Internet as audiences connect with a topic, idea, or story, and click to share it with their friends and followers. If you want your content to stand out with a large number of shares, you need to answer some important questions first.
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.
Zoominfo
DECEMBER 28, 2020
You’re about to get that hot lead on the phone. You’re armed with your prospect’s buying signals, right? What are customer buying signals? By definition, buying signals are the actions potential customers take that indicate they’re close to making a purchase. They’re customers’ verbal buying signals—the cues your sales agent homes in on when talking to a prospect.
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Timo Elliot
JULY 3, 2020
I’ve been interviewing customers recently on how digital technologies have helped their organizations be resilient in the current environment. Here’s a short recap of what I’ve so far found works best for non-professionals like myself who still want to be able to put together a polished, edited result. Arrange a Zoom call. There are alternatives, but Zoom seems to have the best quality, for now.
BI Insight
DECEMBER 9, 2020
Microsoft newly announced a piece of very exciting news that Azure Purview now supports Power BI. This is massive news from a data governance point of view. Azure Purview is the next generation of Azure Data Catalog with more metadata discovery power and the ability to use sensitivity labels. After reading the news, I immediately … Continue reading Power BI Governance, Good Practices: Setting up Azure Purview for Power BI.
SpyFu
DECEMBER 20, 2020
Businesses have seen big success with Google Ads (Adwords). Taking that first step seems like an easy choice, but many stop short when they see the requirements. You have to bid on keywords, set a budget, create campaigns and use extensions? Here's the thing. Google Ads work, and they can give you nearly-instant results. You can get up and running in less than an hour and if you do it right, you can start generating new sales at the end of the hour.
Netbasequid
DECEMBER 20, 2020
Unfortunately, many tools overcomplicate things to make their services seem more essential, and with consumer and market intelligence capabilities are constantly evolving, many brands are overwhelmed. Social Media Analytics shouldn’t feel mysterious and confusing – and it won’t be after reading this post! For starters, Next Generation AI Analytics is the gold standard for powering any analytics, but there are numerous “old AI’ offerings out there muddying the water
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Datapine Blog
JUNE 23, 2020
As a chief financial officer (CFO), the weight of your company’s fiscal wellbeing most likely rests on your shoulders. Not only are you responsible for the ongoing financial strategy of your organization, but you’re probably expected to provide timely, accurate reports to a variety of stakeholders. With so much responsibility and such little time, financial data analysis is no easy feat.
CIO
JULY 30, 2020
Business intelligence (BI) and analytics platforms have long been a staple for business, but thanks to the rise of self-service BI tools, responsibility for analytics has shifted from IT to business analysts, with support from data scientists and database administrators.
Data Hut
OCTOBER 26, 2020
Amazon has been on the cutting edge of collecting, storing, and analyzing a large amount of data. Be it customer data, product information, data about retailers, or even information on the general market trends. Since Amazon is one of the largest e-commerce websites, a lot of analysts and firms depend on the data extracted from here to derive actionable insights.
Smart Data Collective
SEPTEMBER 21, 2020
Two or three decades ago, gathering data was the biggest challenge businesses faced. Leaders craved more information and access. Today, these same companies are drowning in data. The challenge of today is organizing and making sense of the data. 4 Tips to Help You Make Sense of Your Data. With so much emphasis on collecting and accessing data, it’s easy to become so paralyzed by information that you fail to do anything with it.
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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.
Alexa
OCTOBER 13, 2020
Every content marketer wants high-quality inbound links going to their blog. Those backlinks can give you a huge boost when it comes to your SEO efforts, and help you climb SERPs faster. But what about the bad backlinks ? You know — the ones that come from spammy websites with low-quality content and weak domain authority. To help you remove these bad backlinks, Google developed a tool for disavowing links.
Zoominfo
APRIL 13, 2020
Are there differences in selling to women vs. men in B2B sales? Isn’t it all the same? If that’s the mentality you’ve adopted, it might be time to rethink. In partnership with leading sales linguist Steve W. Martin, ZoomInfo surveyed 350+ B2B buyers, and we put this question to the test.
Intelligence Node
NOVEMBER 6, 2020
With the onset of the pandemic and the subsequent 360-degree shift in consumer buying behavior and priorities, there have been some immediately tangible effects on the food and grocery market which has been highest in importance, testing all their existing retail management systems and abilities to keep up with demand. Factors such as quality, price, […].
Timo Elliot
NOVEMBER 11, 2020
I have had several requests from people who want to set up some equipment for professional presentations at virtual events—a home or office studio that enables you to present live as if you were a TV weather person: Here’s a list of most of what I use (with some links, mostly to the French Amazon site where I purchased most of it — I live in Paris).
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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.
Digimind
OCTOBER 5, 2020
While the most exciting part of any influencer marketing campaign might be seeing the results roll in, a lot of work needs to be done beforehand if you want to achieve success.
SpyFu
DECEMBER 15, 2020
It's easy to underestimate how much work goes into making a single, humble little Google Ad. Each one has been precision-tooled to capture that front-page top spot and drive conversions from there. It takes a lot to build a successful Google ad. You need to make sure your ad strikes a balance between being keyword-rich and being readable. You have to plan for tone and build landing pages.
Timoelliott
MARCH 13, 2020
I’m an Innovation Evangelist for SAP. I typically spend this time of year on the road at conferences, but like many others I suddenly find myself spending more time in the virtual world! After some requests from others, please find below a write-up of how I do interactive presentations (in Zoom, Skype, etc.) in front of PowerPoint slides. First, a couple of examples (I got better at using the green screen tool after I did the second video — far less “halo” artifacts now).
Datapine Blog
AUGUST 12, 2020
In your daily business, many different aspects and ‘activities’ are constantly changing – sales trends and volume, marketing performance metrics, warehouse operational shifts, or inventory management changes. All these little alterations in your business activities are impacting the global well-being of your company, your warehouse, your restaurant, or even your healthcare facility.
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CIO
JUNE 2, 2020
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 more than 9 percent between 2020 and 2025 as businesses seek to become more analytically driven.
BI Insight
DECEMBER 16, 2020
It has been a long time that I use SQL Server Profiler to diagnose my data models in the Power BI Desktop. I wrote a blog post in June 2016 about connecting to the underlying Power BI Desktop model from different tools, including SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS), Excel and SQL Server Profiler. In this … Continue reading Quick Tips: Registering SQL Server Profiler as an External Tool in Power BI Desktop.
Smart Data Collective
OCTOBER 25, 2020
The IoT is becoming increasingly commercialized. IDC estimates that there will be 41.6 billion IoT devices online by 2025. As the IoT continues to expand, companies across the world are looking for new ways to embrace its potential. One of the most overlooked benefits of the IoT is with indoor mapping. Companies can find a number of useful IoT approaches to achieve this goal.
Alexa
OCTOBER 13, 2020
Trying to bring in more organic traffic? The solution isn’t churning out as much content as you can. Search engines today penalize websites that push out low-quality content for the sake of publishing often. Your target audience won’t benefit from low-quality content, either. If that’s what you end up producing, your brand’s reputation can take a serious hit, and people will seek out higher-quality alternatives.
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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
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