February, 2020

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How Big Data Has Changed the Financial Industry

Smart Data Collective

The accessibility and value of consumer data has grown substantially in the past several years. These days, nearly every company bigger than a “mom and pop” shop works to gather and analyze terabytes of data from their customers, hoping to better understand and serve them while one-upping the competition. In the financial industry, these efforts are particularly intense.

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Lessons from Iowa’s Caucus Debacle

Tim Mitchell

Earlier this week, the state of Iowa held its caucuses to choose each political party’s nominee for November’s presidential election. Being the first state in each election cycle to do this, the electorate of Iowa has the attention of the nation; a candidate’s healthy or anemic showing in that state often foretells his or her success for the rest of.

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Consider a Business Intelligence Consultant!

ElegantJ BI

Business Intelligence Services and Consulting Can Ease the Transition! Business intelligence tools are an important part of every organization today. No matter the size of the organization, businesses must make good business decisions, plan and forecast and remain competitive. They need to understand customer buying behavior, competitive response, trends, patterns, problems, opportunities and resource and financial issues.

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$6 Trillion is Expected to Be Spent Globally on Cybersecurity by 2021 | Analyst Catalyst Blog

Analyst Catalyst Blog

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Individual Development Plan Template

There’s no way around it: sometimes employees need your help. Use this free template to clarify expectations, share resources, and set a timeline. Best case scenario, this process helps them improve. Worst case, your great recordkeeping keeps you compliant even if they move on. Download the template today!

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Why Build a Data-Driven Culture?

Juice Analytics

In our book Data Fluency , we describe the four pillars of a “data fluent” organization: Data Consumers — the people who use data products to make better decisions; Data Authors — the people who create data products to influence and inform decisions; Data Ecosystem — the set of tools, processes, and capabilities to create effective data products; Data Culture — the norms, expectations, and leadership that encourage a data-driven organization.

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Big Data Is Shaping These Huge Digital Marketing Trends In 2020

Smart Data Collective

I had an interesting encounter at a young professionals’ group the other day. I ran into the head of an analytics company with a lot of experience in big data. When I talk to people from analytics companies, they usually emphasize the technical aspects of their profession. This man was different. He talked extensively about the types of clients he worked with the most.

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Leveraging Software Platforms

Roman Pichler

Be Clear on What a Software Platform Is. Different people have suggested different definitions for the term software platform. Let me briefly share mine: I view such a platform as a collection of software assets that are used by several products, as the following picture illustrates. In the picture above, product A, B, and C are built on the platform and use its assets.

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Consider a Business Intelligence Consultant!

ElegantJ BI

Business Intelligence Services and Consulting Can Ease the Transition! Business intelligence tools are an important part of every organization today. No matter the size of the organization, businesses must make good business decisions, plan and forecast and remain competitive. They need to understand customer buying behavior, competitive response, trends, patterns, problems, opportunities and resource and financial issues.

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4 Cybersecurity Trends That Business Analysts Should Be Aware Of | Analyst Catalyst Blog

Analyst Catalyst Blog

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Business Valuation Software: Free Guide to Valutico Platform

Explore our free guide to Valutico, the platform that revolutionizes automated report generation, offers access to 1 million M&A transactions, enables quick benchmarking, and streamlines the entire valuation process. With Valutico, you gain access to: 30-Minute Valuations: Rapidly producing accurate results. 3TB of Financial Data: The expansive data you need at your fingertips.

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Metrics in Agile: How to Effectively Measure Your Transformation Journey

Agile Velocity

Velocity. It is one of the most commonly used, abused, and misused metrics in Agile software development. Teams, their managers, and even their stakeholders often focus on “improving velocity” without considering the entire value delivery system. Then they are shocked when they don’t get what they really want, for example, predictability or speed. In this article, we explore healthy ways for your organization to use metrics to gain meaningful insights into the outcomes of your experiments as you

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Putting the Enterprise Back in Enterprise Architecture w/ Ross Beurmann

Leading Agile

Listen to the SoundNotes Podcast on the go! Find and subscribe to SoundNotes on: Apple Podcasts. Google Play. Spotify. Soundcloud. RSS. Despite the fact that in many organizations the Enterprise Architect and the Enterprise Solutions Architect are often conflated, they are very distinct roles that require different skill sets and areas of expertise.

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Navigating Your Career in Electrical Engineering in the Big Data Era

Smart Data Collective

Many careers have been heavily impacted by changes in big data. The big data revolution has had a profound effect on healthcare, marketing and many other fields. One of the fields that has been most affected by big data is electrical engineering. Tom Dietterich, a professor of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Portland State University, has written an article on the impact of big data in this field.

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I failed again – I talked about why agile but they wanted “how to Scrum”

Agilemania

I was invited to share my knowledge on agile to the management team today in fast-moving consumer goods at FMCG (a popular beer company). The post I failed again – I talked about why agile but they wanted “how to Scrum” appeared first on Agilemania.

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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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Consider a Business Intelligence Consultant!

ElegantJ BI

Business Intelligence Services and Consulting Can Ease the Transition! Business intelligence tools are an important part of every organization today. No matter the size of the organization, businesses must make good business decisions, plan and forecast and remain competitive. They need to understand customer buying behavior, competitive response, trends, patterns, problems, opportunities and resource and financial issues.

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Will Your School Be Part of This Bright Future? | Analyst Catalyst Blog

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Metrics in Agile: How to Effectively Measure Your Transformation Journey

Agile Velocity

Velocity. It is one of the most commonly used, abused, and misused metrics in Agile software development. Teams, their managers, and even their stakeholders often focus on “improving velocity” without considering the entire value delivery system. Then they are shocked when they don’t get what they really want, for example, predictability or speed. In this article, we explore healthy ways for your organization to use metrics to gain meaningful insights into the outcomes of your experiments as you

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Tying the Investment Tier Back to Agile Delivery w/ Matt Smith

Leading Agile

Listen to the SoundNotes Podcast on the go! Find and subscribe to SoundNotes on: Apple Podcasts. Google Play. Spotify. Soundcloud. RSS. In this episode of SoundNotes, LeadingAgile Managing Consultant, Matt Smith, joins Dave for a conversation about why we need to make sure that the investment made in portfolio tiers of the organization ties directly back to Agile delivery, and how we can make sure that is happening.

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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

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5 Ways Big Data Has Revolutionized Invoicing Software

Smart Data Collective

Big data is changing the nature of invoicing software in many ways. In 2015, Spend Matters wrote a detailed report on the applications of big data in the e-invoicing industry. This has changed the perception business owners had of invoicing applications, because they often ignored the benefits of it before then. Big Data Transforms Invoicing Software Applications.

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Product Backlog- Visible or Transparent?

Agilemania

When we talk about Scrum for complex Product Development, it starts from Vision and Product Backlog. As per Scrumguide – “The Product Backlog is an ordered list of. The post Product Backlog- Visible or Transparent? appeared first on Agilemania.

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Business Users Can Easily Adopt Augmented Analytics!

ElegantJ BI

Enjoy the Advantages of Advanced Analytics with Augmented Analytics Support! The benefits of advanced analytics are many and with augmented analytics support, the benefits are even more numerous. The Advantages of Augmented Analytics far exceed the cost and time required to implement this type of solution, especially if you choose a solution that provides all the features and functionality of a sophisticated analytical solution with the ease and flexibility of a solution that is suitable for e

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Blockchain Demystified: What?it is?and How it’s Transforming Business Analysis | Analyst Catalyst Blog

Analyst Catalyst Blog

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Data-Backed Secrets for Minimizing Discounts & Maximizing ROI Post-Holiday

Use data to turn one-off holiday shoppers into repeat buyers and effortlessly drive more sales throughout the year. Our guide will give you an in-depth understanding of what triggers your customers to buy and breaks down campaign examples from leading B2C brands.

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34 Companies Named 2020 Best Places to Work

Bintelligence

34 Companies Named 2020 Best Places to Work Business Intelligence Group Announces the Winners of the Annual Best Places to Work Award Program. Philadelphia, PA—February 20, 2020—The Business Intelligence Group announced today the winners of its 2020 Best Places to Work award program , which identifies the organizations doing all they can to improve performance by challenging their employees in fun and engaging work environments.

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7 keys to a successful business intelligence strategy

Phocas

A business intelligence strategy is designed to give you the information you need and in a way that’s actionable on many levels. To be data-driven you’ll need to access, view and collaborate with your data from anywhere. To ensure that your business intelligence strategy is successful you need to consider what data is important to analyse to what metrics are meaningful to your teams.

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Cloud And Big Data Technology Are Disrupting Injection Molding

Smart Data Collective

Injection molding is vital to the mass production of plastics and plastic products. Due to the variety of complications with mold design and mold manufacturing, and the combining of plastics and molding machines, there is difficulty in molding products with high quality and precision. However, Big Data and Cloud technology make the process simpler and improve quality.

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Various Approaches For Agile Transformation

Agilemania

Often, we encounter questions such as- How are organizations transforming in the name of agile? What patterns have you seen so far? Which one works better? Explore my experience on this in the briefing below: Educate employees: It is essential to educate the employees on agile related approach and letting them decide what they want to do; meanwhile creating a… The post Various Approaches For Agile Transformation appeared first on Agilemania.

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The Young BA

This article focuses on my experience starting as a customer service representative and working myself up to become a lead analyst in my organization. I did not start with many special skills or talents but I wanted to reflect on what did help me.