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The Midas Touch

Domo

Several years ago I interviewed for a job with a small technology startup in its first couple rounds of funding. My initial interviews with the CEO and the team went very well. However as the final step to getting the job, I needed to meet the approval of two venture capitalists that backed the startup. “Just Not Going to Work” My interview with the first VC went just as well as all the others had gone.

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Five Top Reasons a Business will Fail

Elegant BI

Five Top Reasons a Business will Fail. Betsy says: I’m going to give you a list of things that often result in business failure. It is far from a complete list, but maybe it will help you see Business Intelligence in a different light. Here is my list of the “Top 5 Reasons a Business will Fail”. 1. You have incomplete or incorrect information about competitive products, changes in the market or customers. 2.

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Operating on different source SQL Server instances in a single SSIS package

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In some cases we need to do a single task for lots of SQL Server instances. Assume that we have a web based programme. The programme’s database is distributed across the country and we have 10 different virtual (VM) servers to host the programme’s databases. The programme is working based on some configurations that are … Continue reading Operating on different source SQL Server instances in a single SSIS package.

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Why Business Leaders Are Hamstrung

Domo

I was out on the driving range trying (and failing) to fix a slice on my drive some time ago. There was only one other person out there, and as expected, we started talking about work in between strokes. I’m a marketer at Domo, and he was a manager at a shipping company and a much better golfer than me. Of course when I said I work for Domo, he responded, “I’ve seen your billboards all over, but I can’t figure out what you do.

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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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How to Survive the 2013 Holidays with Real-Time Insights

Domo

The holiday shopping predictions have trended lower this year, but what does that mean for your business? Are clothing retailers going to face above-average dividends with all the snow and cold plowing through the US? Will electronics retailers hold their high margins, or are they going to have to severely discount their products to drive more revenue?

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Corporate Performance Management with Simple And Intuitive Balanced ScoreScards

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Corporate Performance Management with Simple And Intuitive Balanced ScoreScards. Baseball fans are familiar with the classic scorecard. Fans sit in the stands and keep track of runs, hits, and errors. Wouldn’t it be great if you could do the same for your business? You could see all the players on the field play and see how things are going. You can achieve objective business management with a Corporate Performance Management (CPM) solution and a great Balanced Scorecard tool.

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Achieve Business Serenity by the Light of Your Dashboard Software

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Achieve Business Serenity by the Light of Your Dashboard Software. Let’s talk about dashboards! I’m not talking about those brightly lit marvels of automobile engineering that provide you with information on your speed, fuel levels or engine performance. I’m talking about dashboard software – a marvel of technology and business management that allows you to clearly see the speed at which your business is running, how much fuel you have in your budget tank and how your company is performing.

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What Newton’s Laws And Hiring At Domo Have In Common

Domo

I’ve had some great interviews recently with people wanting to become “Domosapiens,” and there are a few qualities that really made some people stand out above the others. But I had a hard time really pinning what those quintessential qualities were. Then I was helping my daughter with her science homework one night and bam! It hit me. Newton’s laws of physics are perfectly mapped to what it takes to be a great Domosapien (stick with me, here).

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Publishing A Google Analytics Data Source Or A Workbook Linked To A Google Analytics Data Source into Tableau Server

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Introduction We can create informative reports on our website analytics using Tableau. Tableau has the ability to connect to a Google Analytics data source. The problem is that if Tableau cannot pass the credentials to Google automatically, the following error message pops up. “An error occurred when publishing the data source. GetOAuthUsername caught exception processing … Continue reading Publishing A Google Analytics Data Source Or A Workbook Linked To A Google Analytics Data Source int

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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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Balanced Scorecards

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Balanced Scorecards. Betsy says: Jugglers balance plates, fruit and other everyday items. YOU balance business…or at least I hope you do! Corporate Performance Management and Balanced Scorecards are the things you need to beat the competition! Your balanced scorecards should be practical, affordable and flexible for future growth. You need an intuitive, browser-based mobile interface that displays on every mobile device and tablet, no matter the screen size.

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How to install database diagram support programmatically

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In the previous article we discussed about how migrating a database diagram into another database. In this article I’ll quickly show you how to install database diagram support. As mentioned in the” How to copy or migrate database diagrams into another database” article, we need to install database diagram support to be able to see … Continue reading How to install database diagram support programmatically.

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What Do The World’s Top-Performing CEOs Look Like?

Domo

Harvard Business Review recently released a pretty cool scorecard that evaluates the world’s 100 top-performing CEOs. To round out the scorecard’s focus on performance and demographics, we added a little research of our own. When you look at the data, some of it might surprise you. For example, more than 70% on HBR’s list don’t have a masters’ degree, but only 1% never graduated from college.

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How to query extended properties

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If you are working in a company that your managers are getting database documentation seriously, thumbs up! One of the ways to write useful documentation that is really effective is using SQL Server extended properties. We can add extended properties to almost all SQL Server objects by right clicking on the object-> select properties-> select … Continue reading How to query extended properties.

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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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How to copy or migrate database diagrams into another database

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We discussed in one of the previous articles called “How to store a SQL Server database diagram into a file and share it with others?” we can store database diagrams in files and share the files with others. In this article I’m describing very fast and easy ways to make a copy of existing … Continue reading How to copy or migrate database diagrams into another database.

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Complex Issues Become Clear with Cross-Tab and OLAP

Elegant BI

Complex Issues Become Clear with Cross-Tab and OLAP. When I was eight years old, I stood at the curb in front of my house and sold lemonade. I charged five cents a glass and I was quite successful. It was my first business venture and, since then, I have learned a lot. One thing I’ve noticed is that the business of business gets more complex every year.

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Personalized BI

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What could/would you do with this personalized data? How would it make your job easier, make you look good to your boss and (maybe even) give you a career boost? Need information on Business Intelligence ? Write to us at sales@elegantjbi.com.

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CEOs of America’s Largest Companies Embracing Twitter and LinkedIn (Facebook, not so much)

Domo

Last year my company Domo, along with CEO.com, published an eye-opening study that revealed the social media habits of Fortune 500 CEOs. It found that the vast majority of these business leaders were virtually invisible on social media sites. At the time, it was startling that more than half the U.S. population had eagerly embraced sites like Facebook, yet only 7.6 percent of Fortune 500 CEOs had joined Facebook and less than four percent had a Twitter account.

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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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Digging into SQL Server 2012 columnstore index

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The SQL Server 11.0 release (code named “Denali”) introduces a new data warehouse query acceleration feature based on a new type of index called the columnstore. Columnstore indexing is officially announced in SQL Server 2012. It is working based on xVelocity memory optimised technology and it improves data warehouse query performance significantly.

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Corporate Performance Management and Sensitivity Analysis

Elegant BI

Corporate Performance Management and Sensitivity Analysis. Imagination is a great thing! But, imagining business results doesn’t get it done! If you want dependable results, you have to engage in Corporate Performance Management with clear analytical tools so you can base your strategy on dependable information. Imagine for a moment what you could do with the right data!

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How to send SSIS logs (errors) through email

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First of all I want to explain the process of sending SSIS Logs through email for better understanding. As you might know you can save SSIS logs in several ways for administration purposes. In this article our focus is on how to send SSIS logs to the administrator whenever an event like a package failure … Continue reading How to send SSIS logs (errors) through email.

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How to send more precise SSIS logs (errors) through email

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First of all you need to read my previous article called “How to send SSIS logs (errors) through email” as the processes are pretty the same. However, you need to create some changes in the Execute SQL Task (ref.: section “J” number 5 and 12 of “How to send SSIS logs (errors) through email”). As … Continue reading How to send more precise SSIS logs (errors) through email.

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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 store a SQL Server database diagram into a file and share it with others?

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Sometimes you might feel you need to store the database diagrams in a file basis. I’ve faced to this feeling specially when I was testing some databases which were under development. I didn’t like to create the whole database diagrams that I’ve created before in a database that a new version of it is newly … Continue reading How to store a SQL Server database diagram into a file and share it with others?

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Installing SQL Server 2014 CTP1

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After downloading the SQL Server 2014, mount the media file downloaded and run “setup.exe” In SQL Server Installation Centre click on “Installation” Click on “New SQL Server stand-alone installation or add features to an existing installation” Note that if you have any of previous versions of SQL Server installed on your machine the setup process … Continue reading Installing SQL Server 2014 CTP1.

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Installing SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) 2012 integrated mode with SharePoint 2013

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Reporting services 2012 integrated with SharePoint 2013 In this post I’m going to describe installing SSRS 2012 integrated mode with SharePoint 2013. As some guys are pretty new to SSRS 2012 or SharePoint or even SSRS integrated with SharePoint, I am explaining the situation from scratch. Requirements: SQL Server 2012 Enterprise (or Business Intelligence) edition … Continue reading Installing SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) 2012 integrated mode with SharePoint 2013.

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The Wisdom Of Crowds Infographic

Domo

When NASA needed a better algorithm for mapping dark matter, it sponsored a competition that drew data geeks from across the globe. After only one week, Martin O’Leary, a PhD student in glaciology, created an algorithm that outperformed algorithms NASA had been developing for 30 years. And in the remaining months of the competition, the results only improved from there.

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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