Smart Data Collective
JULY 30, 2019
In an earlier age, perhaps as little as a decade ago, businesses had to rely on intuition and educated guesses to guide their spending. The situation was famously captured by John Wanamaker, who said, “Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is, I don’t know which half.” Today, data is everywhere. Phones track our locations and our social media usage.
BizAcuity
JULY 22, 2019
This is the era of IoT (the Internet of Things). One where every sector around us, right from transport, retail and manufacturing to automobiles, is undergoing a major transformation. Fleet management is the latest to join this revolution. Today, the science and study of fleet management is transforming the way traditional fleets were managed. The confluence of connected gadgets, networks, and its consequent by-product of big data is enhancing the impact of fleet management.
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Timo Elliott
JULY 4, 2019
In a couple of weeks, I’ll be heading off to Nairobi, Kenya, to keynote the SAP Innovation Day on July 18th. I’ll be explaining how organizations can optimize every experience that matters using the latest technologies, as part of their Intelligent Enterprise digital transformations. Innovation is moving at the speed of light, and our job is to show you how to move with it, how to arm your business for a brighter future with new levels of agility and resilience, and how to accelerate
ElegantJ BI
JULY 23, 2019
What is Predictive Analytics and How Can it Help My Business? What is predictive analytics? Put simply, predictive analytics is a method used to forecast and predict the future results and needs of an organization using historical data and a comprehensive set of data from across and outside the enterprise. Predictive Modeling allows users to test theories and hypotheses and develop the best strategy.
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Smart Data Collective
JULY 9, 2019
Business success begins and ends with customer experience. According to recent studies, 90 percent of buyers would gladly spend more for a better customer experience. That’s exactly why understanding what an improved experience means for customers is so important. Companies have been able to perform more in-depth customer analysis—above and beyond social media commentary and feedback surveys—with the development and proliferation of analytics.
Data Pine
JULY 17, 2019
Experts predict that by 2025, around 175 Zettabytes of data will be generated annually, according to research from Seagate. Moreover, within just five years, the number of smart connected devices in the world will amount to more than 22 billion – all of which will produce colossal sets of collectible, curatable, and analyzable data, claimed IoT Analytics in their industry report.
Timo Elliott
JULY 31, 2019
I recently presented a web seminar with lots of great examples of how organizations are using the latest and greatest SAP technologies to transform the way they do business… The presentation includes real-world examples of organizations using SAP Leonardo technologies, including internet of things, new business models, mobile experiences, analytics & predictive, and blockchain.
ElegantJ BI
JULY 23, 2019
What is Predictive Analytics and How Can it Help My Business? What is predictive analytics? Put simply, predictive analytics is a method used to forecast and predict the future results and needs of an organization using historical data and a comprehensive set of data from across and outside the enterprise. Predictive Modeling allows users to test theories and hypotheses and develop the best strategy.
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Analyst Catalyst Blog
JULY 3, 2019
Userzoom
JULY 31, 2019
In honour of us sprucing up our own Tree Test Results capabilities , we thought we’d update our classic beginner’s guide to Tree testing. Here we’ll be answering the following questions: What is tree testing? What are the benefits? How do I run my own tree testing? How will I possibly stop myself from making a joke about going into a forest, pressing up against a silver birch and saying, “yeah feels pretty woody, now let’s try another one”?
Smart Data Collective
JULY 12, 2019
Do you remember what it was like trying to buy a house before the days of online listings? If you were born after about 1980, you probably never experienced that. The internet has catapulted the real estate industry into a world where people can buy houses site-unseen and sign the paperwork without ever meeting in person. And it’s only just beginning. 2019 has hailed in an incredible era of mobile-centric technology, automation, smart tools, and other electronic marvels that make real estate tra
Roman Pichler
JULY 9, 2019
Organise Around Products. In order to grow your product management team, start by reviewing your product portfolio. Determine which assets are actual products —value creating vehicles that offer a tangible benefit or address a real problem for a group of people, while at the same time deliver specific business benefits, such as generating revenue directly or indirectly, reducing cost, or increasing brand equity.
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Sisense
JULY 24, 2019
Blog. In my previous blog , I wrote about Natural Language Query (NLQ, or search analytics for some), as one of the major topics that we, the AI group in Sisense, are working on. NLQ is one of the oldest AI disciplines, but we’ve only recently started hearing about it in conjunction with BI and analytics. In this blog, I would like to expand on NLQ and discuss how this AI technology can be leveraged in our domain.
ElegantJ BI
JULY 23, 2019
What is Predictive Analytics and How Can it Help My Business? What is predictive analytics? Put simply, predictive analytics is a method used to forecast and predict the future results and needs of an organization using historical data and a comprehensive set of data from across and outside the enterprise. Predictive Modeling allows users to test theories and hypotheses and develop the best strategy.
Userzoom
JULY 16, 2019
Budget is often restrained for designers and researchers; whether in time, money or both. So, why would it ever make sense to test someone else’s website? Especially where you don’t have any ownership or influence to change the designs based on your research or testing? While it may not be the best case for every situation there are times when it makes perfect sense; maybe you have a fresh idea you are a bit unsure of or perhaps you need to showcase the value of research and the client isn’t bud
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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
Smart Data Collective
JULY 30, 2019
Computer breaches from Russian or Chinese hackers get the headlines, but the reality is you are more likely to be a victim from an insider. It turns out that as much as 60 percent of all attacks were carried out by insiders – either overtly or inadvertently. The High Cost of Breaches. If it’s your business that falls victim, the cost can be high. Your company’s reputation can be damaged.
Roman Pichler
JULY 9, 2019
Organise Around Products. In order to grow your product management team, start by reviewing your product portfolio. Determine which assets are actual products —value creating vehicles that offer a tangible benefit or address a real problem for a group of people, while at the same time deliver specific business benefits, such as generating revenue directly or indirectly, reducing cost, or increasing brand equity.
QAT Global
JULY 24, 2019
Check out our list of the 25 best TED Talks that all UX designers should watch Pleasant user experience on any interface is crucial to adding and retaining users, but what’s the best approach to solving UX design issues? UX design can be ultra-simple or incredibly intricate. Great design is born from studying the [.]. The post 25 Insightful TED talks for UX designer appeared first on QAT Global.
ElegantJ BI
JULY 11, 2019
Smart Data Visualization and Augmented Analytics Makes Users Smarter! Why is smart data visualization important? Consider how difficult it would be to put together a jigsaw puzzle if you were blindfolded. You might have access to all the pieces, but you could not truly see the picture unless you were able to visualize the outcome. Data is like that.
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Userzoom
JULY 30, 2019
Whether it’s evaluating a current website, testing a prototype, or iterating throughout the product development cycle, click tests are a fast and cost-effective way to ensure your design works for your users. So if you’re new to the world of clickmaps, heatmaps and darkmaps, let’s explore click testing and how it can benefit your product development… What is a click test?
Smart Data Collective
JULY 19, 2019
When Alan Turing invented the first intelligent machine , few could have predicted that the advanced technology would become as widespread and ubiquitous as it is today. Since then, companies have adopted AI for pretty much everything , from self-driving cars to medical technology to banking. We live in the age of big data, an age in which we use machines to collect and analyze massive amounts of data in a way that humans couldn’t do on their own.
Leading Agile
JULY 24, 2019
And now for something completely different…. Kaely Hall has been working in the capacity of ScrumMaster and Product Owner for the last 16 months. She recently took LeadingAgile’s Certified Scrum Product Owner training and in this episode of SoundNotes, Kaely shares how her work as a Product Strategist for Big Nerd Ranch requires her to play the role of ScrumMaster for some clients, Project Manager for some clients, and Product Owner for others.
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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.
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