Smart Data Collective

OCTOBER 7, 2023

We are continually surprised by all of the ways that AI technology is affecting our lives. We are already aware of the fact that social media companies like Facebook are using AI to improve their products. However, it is a double-edged sword with regards to how social media affects our everyday lives.

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Timo Elliott

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Paul Saunders , SAP’s Head of Product Strategy and Chief Evangelist Cloud ERP, was recently the guest of The Future of ERP podcast , talking about “Composable ERP.” So I’ve been with SAP for about 18 months now, I came from Gartner, where I was an analyst covering SAP. Everybody has gotten so excited about it.

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Timo Elliott

JUNE 19, 2023

I recently recorded a stream-of-consciousness video interview on the top topics that SAP Partners (and customers!) Here’s the recording and a transcript below: SAP Innovation Evangelist SAP on the top topics SAP Partners should be thinking about. So we have to be clear about what those areas might be.

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Analysts Corner

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

How to be Holistic While Innovating Product X (Cinema) Product X, Product Y and Product Z In the bustling landscape of commerce, it’s often the case that complementary products and services hold the key to unlocking untapped potential within our businesses. Final words Let the story of NABI serve as a beacon of inspiration for us all.

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Domo

APRIL 17, 2024

Here’s how you can think of them: Every action a customer takes creates a data point. For example, when a customer: Clicks a display ad, Google collects the data. Ali Losa is a database administrator at Regions Bank, and she uses Domo to manage her marketing team’s data. Coding skills aren’t required.

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Timo Elliott

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

One core principle of lean is Jidoka, which is about the relationship of man and machine. “This idea, sometimes called automation with a human touch must be our vision when it comes to digital machine and processes. They often know about inefficiencies, about gaps in the process, but are at the mercy of the machine.

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Timo Elliott

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

My role was to talk about the trends and opportunities for 2023, for customers, SAP, and our partners. IDC calls it the Future Enterprise , Forrester talks about Future Fit organizations, and Gartner explains the benefits of the Composable Enterprise. Innovating Faster. But how do they do that?

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Analysts Corner

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Building the technology platform to re-imagine customer experience (CX) Building the Customer Experience transformation technology platform In the previous post we discussed what is customer experience (CX) transformation, the business value and some use cases with the highest return of investment.

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Timo Elliott

NOVEMBER 26, 2022

The power of artificial intelligence is showing us what the prescriptive future of computer systems should look like. I’m just about to get on a plane to Dubai for a partner conference, so I quickly scribbled what I imagined my arrival might look like, and added a description.

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Timo Elliott

JANUARY 10, 2022

The topics covered a wide variety of different industries, with lots of great, concrete examples of how SAP’s customers and partners are using technology to innovate. I think the one about getting smart about charging electric cars would have to have been my favorite. Timo Elliott: Hello everyone!

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Smart Data Collective

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Customers might reach your business through a variety of channels. It might be easy to suppose that, once the customer has actually converted and made a purchase, their journey is over – and that the exact route via which they arrived is pretty inconsequential. One of the most overlooked sources of data is from inbound calls.

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Domo

JANUARY 3, 2024

Here, we’re sharing our insights with Derrick Decloe, chief innovation officer and head of analytics. Domo Everywhere is our embedded analytics platform. Out-of-the-box dashboards, with limitless customization Domo Everywhere is a revenue generator , and every product team monetizes it differently.

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Argon Digital

MARCH 6, 2024

Transforming Processes During SAP Deployment is Essential for Realizing Full Value Implementing a new ERP platform, like SAP, is not just about navigating technical and managerial hurdles; it’s a pivotal moment for business transformation. Most companies come out of this exercise with most processes targeted for customization.

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Smart Data Collective

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

People use finances daily, but it doesn’t mean they are completely protected from data breaches. We put a considerable amount of trust in our banks. They hold our money and sensitive data. The data breach incident against the company resulted in them losing hundreds of thousands of customers and an impacted reputation.

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Banking Finance Big Data 298

Domo

MAY 16, 2024

Per usual, she’s breaking records—and we couldn’t let a major Taylor moment pass without a little analysis from us. First, the context around the “Tortured Poets” release For months, Taylor Swift appeared to be dropping hints about releasing “Reputation (Taylor’s Version),” her re-recording of the 2018 album.

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BA Squared

JUNE 2, 2021

Be a champion of the Product and Customer Experience Vision. Every user story a team works on is about a user goal, afterall a user story is about THE USER, and I mean a human user. Focus on a shared understanding on the customer and the other details will fall into place. Stay customer focused!

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Smart Data Collective

MARCH 27, 2023

Our lives are being affected by big data more than ever. Our Growing Dependence on Big Data Makes Data Security More Important than Ever Big data is revolutionizing the way we live our lives. Our Growing Dependence on Big Data Makes Data Security More Important than Ever Big data is revolutionizing the way we live our lives.

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Domo

MAY 23, 2024

Lucas Johnson lights up when he talks about the impact good data has had on his marketing organization. About three years ago, we started changing our marketing mix to be much more performance based. And we lacked a comprehensive marketing data warehouse to capture the performance of our efforts.

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Timo Elliott

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Here’s my new overview of SAP, our customers, and technology explaining how SAP solutions can help you become an intelligent, sustainable enterprise — and full of real-world examples of organizations like yours who have already taken the plunge. Our purpose. Our purpose is to help the world run better and improve people’s lives.

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Smart Data Collective

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

Increasingly, our world has become obsessed with data. Companies everywhere want to know who their customers are, how they behave, how they make purchasing decisions, and how they can be persuaded. These metrics are typically narrow in scope, such that they can’t tell you everything about the progress of your campaign.

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Smart Data Collective

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

That’s why we presented 6 mind-blowing facts you didn’t know about AI. Companies invest in AI so much because, apart from business growth , there are many benefits to it: Improved customer service : The increasing use of chatbots that are there to answer the most common customer inquiries is improving customer service.

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Artificial Intelligence Business Analysis Business Analysis Planning 245

Domo

MAY 21, 2024

So when he joined the leading tile brand, Dal-Tile, as senior vice president of operations and customer experience, he was surprised to learn that data was lacking. We sat down with Draper at Domopalooza 2024 to learn more about his data journey. Our system was “anecdotal information.” Troy Draper is a data guy. We are dominant!

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Smart Data Collective

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

The more information you can gather about people’s misunderstandings and struggles they often go through, the better it’ll be for optimizing the processes and interface within your product or strengthening your onboarding process. Technology combined with tools can easily automate and collect customer behavior data.

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Domo

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

For those who may not know, the Connections Tour is one of Domo’s key customer events (the other being Domopalooza ), where executives and technical staff share the latest Domo strategy and product updates in a roadshow format. Let’s dive right into it, with my top five observations about the event—and what they mean for customers everywhere!

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Analysts Corner

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA) introduced us to the concept of a nimble organization: an organization’s capability to sense and respond to change. For instance, you can use a proof of concept to assess the technical feasibility. What is a Nimble organization?

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Analysts Corner

MARCH 3, 2024

Don’t overserve your customers, please don’t Introduction In this article, we’ll dive into the Four Actions Framework and uncover the three vital traits of a winning strategy. Casella wines Casella Wines found themselves amidst the fierce competition of the US wine industry. Using the Four Actions Framework as their compass?,

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Innovation 130

Smart Data Collective

JUNE 29, 2021

Think about it this way. When applying for insurance, you provide information about all the potential risks based on who you are, where you live, and so on. Big data has provided us with more information on the human condition than we could have ever imagined possible. However, big data is more likely to benefit us.

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BA Squared

JUNE 2, 2021

Transition focus from tech to the customer. Today’s projects are all about getting business results and today’s business results mean creating smart and meaningful customer experiences. The BA role is often the only role looking out for the integrated customer journey, others are there to look after all the technical details.

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Domo

MAY 7, 2024

We sat down with Larsen at Domopalooza to learn more about her data journey. I used to work for Domo and have been a Domo client three times. To make it work, we ended up being one of the first customers to go on the consumption-based pricing model, so we are paying for data sets run instead of people in the product.

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Passionate BA

AUGUST 1, 2023

Ross, an expert in policy interpretation, gives us a helping hand in this article by explaining which skills would be required to analyze policies efficiently. It is in our nature to be unsure of ourselves, doubt, fear, be indecisive, and experience other emotions which paralyze us. But what if you can struggle less?

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Smart Data Collective

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

If you have not lived under a rock for several years, you have undoubtedly heard about artificial intelligence (AI). However, how might artificial intelligence be used in e-commerce operations? Artificial intelligence (AI) is starting to fill every facet of our daily lives. Targeting Specific Customers.

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Smart Data Collective

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

In an age where data plays a fundamental role in every aspect of our lives, it’s relatively simple to find the answers that we need. We talked about the role that big data has played in the evolution of IT support , but it is important to recognize that it has also increased the need for these services as well.

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Smart Data Collective

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

It is growing faster as more car companies use geolocation data to provide better services to their customers. This massive processing of data reveals our tastes, movements and desires. A GPS can help us reach our destination, but it can also compromise our privacy. This is the era of Big Data.

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BA Squared

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Mark Twain has a pretty amazing, and relatable quote about starting something to get ahead. All too often our project work and demands of others interfere with our ability to keep our career goals and skills development as a top priority. We know we need to do something yet the solution or an easy solution can escape us.

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Smart Data Collective

JANUARY 29, 2021

Big data helps us assess some of the biggest trends. A number of analytics tools can see market trends , but it is useful to use data analytics to spot social trends as well. One trend that big data helps us understand better is Covid-19. There is no doubt about it. Customer behavior has also changed.

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Analysts Corner

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Welcome to the new edition of Analyst’s corner digest where we share some of the great stories recently added to our corner. User personas are a commonly used tool in UX design. At their core, personas are about creating products with a specific, not generic, user in mind. Contact us if you want to get your piece published.

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Leading Agile

JANUARY 30, 2022

The things we can’t overlook then get in our way. . So how do we go about having these conversations, thinking about them meaningfully, and articulating them fully? . We need to begin to understand the concerns that are blocking us. Overcoming Our Conflicts. Ultimately, our goal isn’t just to be Agile.

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