2017

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Corporate Gift Giving: Guidelines for Compliant Policies

Zoominfo

It’s that time of the year again — the holiday season is coming upon us and your B2B sales reps are working longer hours to close last-minute deals. Your marketing team is busy too — fully entrenched in messaging and plans for the upcoming year. It seems like there’s not enough time in the day. Yet, there’s one last thing to consider before taking a well-deserved break for the holidays — corporate gift giving.

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Our New Logo, Our New leap in technology!

Elegant BI

The next technology move: Smart Data Visualization, New intuitive graphical displays, Strength to handle Big Data at blazing speeds, Self-Serve Data Prep to merge and prepare your data in one solution. All this put together with Plug and Play predictive analytics to empower users and making use of analytics a sheer joy! The logo: Colourful Ribbon Gymnast who we call – ATHENA (Greek Goddess of wisdom and knowledge).

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For BI, you must know the data integration process

Athena Solutions BI

Understanding the data integration process is central to self-service BI and data architecture design, consultant Rick Sherman says in an end-of-year look at data management trends. As 2017 gives way to 2018, data management is buffeted by winds of change. Unstructured data is far more prevalent, the cloud is emerging as a bigger target platform, and the call for self-service BI from business users is heard more than ever.

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We wish you merry Christmas and a wonderful 2018!

Innguma

2017 has been a very special year for INNGUMA. We changed our identity and we strengthen our position as reference CI software. All this reached its culmination on INNGUMA Day, that thanks to you was a great success. For that reason, we want to thank all of you (both clients and non-clients) for keep maintaining your confidence in INNGUMA. We are a community that constantly grows, and that is critical to maintain our competitiveness and evolution.

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Prepare Now: 2025s Must-Know Trends For Product And Data Leaders

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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SSAS Tabular Model Documenter with Power BI without DMVs

BI Insight

Technology is growing fast and we are enjoying it. We reshape our daily created data in a form that satisfies our needs. One of the technologies which is used more commonly these days is SQL Server Tabular Models, SSAS Tabular in short. Lots of industries decide to go with SSAS Tabular in their new projects … Continue reading SSAS Tabular Model Documenter with Power BI without DMVs.

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Access reports from Remote Offices

BI4Cloud

Background. United Technologies Hong Kong implemented Bi4Cloud for BK Asia Pacific (namely BK). BK was founded in 1983 in HK, and provides a comprehensive network of construction consultancy services to the local and international construction industries, comprising: Commercial and Contract Management, Dispute Resolution, Project Management, Quantity Surveying and Training and Professional Development.

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Retail Sales Continue to Deteriorate – How Marketers Can Right the Ship

Resonate

The latest Wall Street estimates just gave retailers a giant headache. Retailers’ combined same-store sales are now expected to only rise 0.3% in the fiscal first quarter, lower than what was originally projected at the start of 2017 according to eMarketer. So what’s the problem? Retailers aren’t adjusting quickly enough to the wants and needs of their customers.

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Social Media Marketing: How High-Performing Brands Use Social Data

Digimind

Leveraging social data to strengthen your brand’s social media marketing strategies. Today, businesses are highly aware of the value of social media data. Brands have realized that social networks are no longer an isolated marketing channel solely dedicated to communication. Social media has not only proved its ability to produce tangible results, but has also demonstrated the capacity to develop strong contact points between brands and their customers and improve customer experience.

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54+ Local SEO Experts Share Insights on Local Search and Link Outreach

E2M

The significance of SEO and its impact on the foundation of our online presence is well-known. For a business to succeed on the online platform, having a solid local SEO strategy is a must. As long as there are websites competing for visibility and increased traffic, SEO will continue to be an integral part of. Continue reading.

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Gain a Competitive Edge With This Scenario Planning Toolkit

In a world where uncertainty and change are constant, scenario planning empowers companies with the agility and competitive edge needed to thrive. Download the toolkit to fortify your business strategy , set up your competitive positioning , and ensure your company is poised to respond to any future scenario.

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On-Going Debate: “Where” Should Competitive Intelligence Reside?

Apprize360 Intelligence

The debate “where” the competitive intelligence (CI) function should be housed within a company is one that has been on-going over the past 20 years. Some are insistent that a CI program needs to be a function of product marketing with the goal of influencing product messaging and arming sales with the latest sell-against intelligence. Others believe that CI should be a function of product management helping to drive competitive product differentiation through unique features and functionality t

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20 Sales and Marketing Alignment Statistics

Zoominfo

Sales and marketing alignment should be one of your organization’s top priorities. These two teams may not always agree, but they need to work toward common goals. In fact, when both departments communicate effectively, they can generate more leads and increase revenue. Still not convinced? Check out these 20 sales and marketing statistics: Sales and Marketing Alignment Statistics Organizations with tightly aligned sales and marketing functions enjoy 36% higher customer retention rates ( source

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Social BI Inspires Data Popularity

Elegant BI

Social BI Tools: A Logical (and Crucial) Extension of Social Networking! Business intelligence has become a crucial tool for business users and for organizations large and small. It was only a matter of time before social business intelligence took over the enterprise! Sharing data and content is a habit for all consumers and consumers have jobs. Within the context of those jobs, a consumer becomes a team member – a business user who now uses social business intelligence tools to gather, a

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Govern first, then ask many questions

Athena Solutions BI

Join me for this webinar hosted by Information Management Live. Thursday November 16, 2017. 1 PM ET/10 AM PT. The path to fruitful analytics starts with good, trusted, high-quality data. Trust is the magic word, because when users believe in their data, they use it to make better decisions. Governance is the key to trust, and increasingly, organizations are discovering that data governance practices work best when they are woven into the natural data lifecycle.

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Are Your Impact Comms Resonating With Stakeholders?

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.

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INNGUMA will be used in the European EFFRA projects

Innguma

We are pleased to announce that we have just signed an MOU (Memorandum of Understanding) with EFFRA, the European Factories of the Future Research Association, to offer the use of INNGUMA for R&D projects under its umbrella in order to fully exploit the results of these projects. This agreement entails that free INNGUMA licenses are made available throughout projects funded by the European Commission under the Factories of the Future (FoF) programme.

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Visualise SQLite Data in Power BI

BI Insight

As the name implies, SQLite is a light weight transactional SQL database engine. It is open-source and free for use either for personal commercial. SQLite is widely used in mobile apps and many other desktop applications that need an internal light weight free SQL database. In this post I explain how to visualise SQLite data … Continue reading Visualise SQLite Data in Power BI.

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Forget volume and variety, focus on velocity (Part 1)

Domo

When you think of Big Data, you may imagine the billions of rows and petabytes of data many companies are struggling to manage and process on a regular basis. You may also think about the challenges of handling diverse unstructured data such as audio, video, image and text-based files coming from an ever-increasing number of sources. In terms of the three V’s of Big Data , the volume and variety aspects of Big Data receive the lion’s share of attention.

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Joint Ventures in Architecture and Construction

BI4Cloud

Large construction projects require significant capital and inter-disciplinary skills and a convenient business structure for these developments are joint ventures where several parties are involved. Equally as common in construction is the use of independent business structures for separate projects for integrity and isolation from other projects. Business can quite easily have tens of projects in progress simultaneously and reporting on in a consolidated manner over all projects is a necessary

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7 Strategies to Gather (and Actually Use) Competitive Intel from Employees

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.

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Product update — News Data Feeds

Contify

Contify’s API console Up until now, our News Data Feeds API only supported searching news by companies. Starting today, we are adding new ways for businesses to search and filter information such that it adds greater context around the business updates delivered through our APIs. We have launched three new endpoint — Industries : Allows you to search information by over 220 industries.

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Digimind and El País Partner to Monitor Online Public Discourse about the 2017 Catalan Elections

Digimind

Social media has undoubtedly become a preferred means for individuals to express their opinions, especially when it comes to matters of public interest. Digimind recently partnered with Prisa, a global Spanish and Portuguese media group and the official public opinion aggregator for the Catalan elections to be held on December 21st.

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15 Reasons to Invest in Maintenance Management Software

Better Buys

Maintenance management software can be a hard sell. Maintenance has been a paper-based industry for a long time. Moving to a software solution can be seen as an expensive and disruptive process, leading to resistance from both maintenance managers and technicians. However, the cost of maintenance software pales in comparison to the cost of downtime, which […].

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What Big Data Says About the Inaugural Crowd

Resonate

I live about a half mile from the White House, and obviously I’ve noticed throngs of visitors in town for the Presidential Inauguration. Because I’m a data scientist working at a Big Data intelligence company, I naturally wondered what my data and models have to say about these visitors. I approached this problem by identifying all the web-enabled devices that appeared in D.C. starting Saturday, 14 January 2017 but were previously located in another state.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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How to Create Buyer Personas: A Guide for B2B Companies

Zoominfo

Did you know 60-70% of marketers say they don’t truly understand their buyers ( source )? Let that sink in. We don’t need to tell you that’s a problem—it’s obvious. If you don’t understand your target audience, how will you produce effective content? Influence their buying decisions? Or form productive relationships with them? The short answer is—you won’t.

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Predictive Analysis for Rasiklal!

Elegant BI

The simplest, easiest and spreadsheetble (I just invented this word) information which can be used for predictive and forecasting is defined data over a period. For example, date or time driven patterns which keep repeating till the cows come home. We will not discuss this here and hope you are relieved of some scepticism about this article at this stage.

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Self-Service BI on DM Radio

Athena Solutions BI

Join me on DM Radio. DM Radio / Leave IT Alone – The Vast Value of Self-Service. DATE: November 9, 2017. TIME: 3 PM Eastern / 12 PM Pacific. About the Discussion. As the power of data increases, so does the appetite of those who long to use it. Meanwhile, the changing dynamics of corporate IT often result in smaller teams with greater responsibility.

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53 Sales Follow Up Statistics

Zoominfo

Whether you conduct your sales outreach by phone, social media, or email—it’s undeniably an essential aspect of B2B sales. Everything from the channel you select to the language you use impacts how your prospect will respond. The more information you have—the better! Today we’ll cover a list of insights around sales follow-up productivity, channels, cadences, and effectiveness.

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Maximize Productivity and Simplify IT Management with Conversational AI

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