Wed.Dec 02, 2020

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In The Age Of Big Data, Is Microsoft Excel Still Relevant?

Smart Data Collective

In recent years, leading professional fields like marketing have leaned heavily on phrases like, “content is king,” but if you’ve been paying attention – not just to marketing, but to many other growing fields, including eCommerce, healthcare, and finance – the real reigning force is not content, but data. Big data, which is itself a consequence of other technology, gives us the tools to interpret our actions, to strategize and analyze in new and more objective ways.

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Leaders, Followers and Trusted Advisors

BA Times

You may be interested in developing your leadership skills as a BA – but have you ever stopped to think about the quality of your followership skills?

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What are the costs of not using business intelligence?

Phocas

Due to budget and time constraints, some managers believe business intelligence (BI) is not worth the investment. Some people think they're saving money, when it fact, the failure to implement BI will cause the business to lose money. This blog examines a few of those costs.

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The Future of Agile Coaching

Cprime

Having spent the past several years as a consultant, I have encountered a variety of organizations and situations that required my help in different roles. In some cases, I was a Scrum Master, and in others, I worked with higher levels of the organization as an Agile Coach. From this experience, I realized something that perhaps I should have discovered earlier in my career: coaching is a complex hybrid of a variety of skills that is often very difficult to learn because you don’t know what you

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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. Downlady the template today!

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Expanding Role of Data Governance, Metadata Management, and Data Quality

The Data Administration Newsletter

Ensuring data quality is an important aspect of data management and these days, DBAs are increasingly being called upon to deal with the quality of the data in their database systems more than ever before. The importance of quality data cannot be overstated. Poor data quality costs the typical company between 10% and 20% of […].

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AI is Innovating the Future of Cybersecurity

The Data Administration Newsletter

AI has grown increasingly sophisticated and has been used in multiple applications, including providing superior cybersecurity risk analysis and detection. Because it can extrapolate conclusions based on large amounts of data, it is often much more effective as an online security tool. However, using AI poses its own potential security risks. Here is what you […].

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Tableau Prep Builder now available in the browser

Tableau

Rapinder Jawanda. Spencer Czapiewski. December 2, 2020 - 8:46pm. December 15, 2020. With the arrival of Tableau 2020.4 , we've made exciting advancements for self-service data prep. Now, you can create new Tableau Prep flows as well as edit existing flows directly in the browser. Since all your analytical work can be done conveniently in one spot on the server, web authoring helps analysts eliminates the context switching between creating in the desktop and moving the flow to the server.

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Palo Alto Firewall – DNS Sinkhole

GAVS Technology

Ganesh Kumar J. Starting with PAN-OS 6.0, DNS sinkhole is an action that can be enabled in Anti-Spyware profiles. A DNS sinkhole can be used to identify infected hosts on a protected network using DNS traffic in environments where the firewall can see the DNS query to a malicious URL. The DNS sinkhole enables the Palo Alto Networks device to forge a response to a DNS query for a known malicious domain/URL and causes the malicious domain name to resolve to a definable IP address (fake IP) that is

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Intelligent Automation Solutions for the Enterprise

Blueprint

Large organizations are well on their way in their automation journeys. This year, Deloitte predicted that 72% of companies would have implemented RPA (robotic process automation) to accelerate their digital transformations. Now it seems, industries are actively looking at intelligent automation (IA) solutions to augment their use of RPA. Intelligent automation is, after all, the next step in digital transformation because it hits all the right chords: automating end-to-end processes instead of

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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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Getting The Best From Healthcare AI

GAVS Technology

Tim Perry. Co-founder & CIO, Healthcare Too. Advisor to the CIO of AgFirst. Is Healthcare Artificial Intelligence The Answer? To help explain the future of healthcare Artificial Intelligence (AI) let’s borrow a few lines from Lewis Carroll’s classic Alice in Wonderland : Alice: Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?

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A guide to your next statement of work (with example)

Monday

Nobody likes paperwork — it’s tedious and takes up a lot of time. But creating and submitting paperwork allows you to keep things on the right track. The Statement of Work (SoW) is perhaps the most important document for projects. It’s made before any work begins and outlines everything that goes into a project. Getting all the details right is crucial, as it serves as an agreement between you and your client.

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Patient Segmentation Using Data Mining Techniques

GAVS Technology

Srinivasan Sundararajan. Patient Segmentation & Quality Patient Care. As the need for quality and cost-effective patient care increases, healthcare providers are increasingly focusing on data-driven diagnostics while continuing to utilize their hard-earned human intelligence. Simply put, data-driven healthcare is augmenting the human intelligence based on experience and knowledge.

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How to create the perfect project calendar

Monday

The old-fashioned approach to project management is simple: all you need is a piece of paper and a pen. Can that work? Sure. As long as your project is something simple, like: “Pick up coffee filters at the store.”. But the reality is that today’s online projects are far more complex than that. They involve multiple users, each tackling their own milestones and deadlines with many moving parts all happening at once.

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How to Build the Ideal HR Team

HR doesn’t exist in a vacuum. This work impacts everyone: from the C-Suite to your newest hire. It also drives results. Learn how to make it all happen in Paycor’s latest guide.

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Real-Time Interactive Data Visualization Tools Reshaping Modern Business

Smart Data Collective

If the work of a human’s mind can be somehow represented, interactive data visualization is the closest form of such representation right before pure art. So, what is Interactive data visualization and how are they driven by modern interactive data visualization tools? Generally speaking, data visualization itself visually represents a certain database.

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Free project management tools: the list you’ve been waiting for

Monday

Running an effective project can be complicated. And if you’re responsible for multiple projects across different teams, it can quickly become a nightmare. However, the right tool can help remove some of that complexity, making you better organized in the process. With the right project management tool in place, you can better track each stage of your projects.

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Lay the Groundwork for Organizational Learning

Netmind

While the responsibility to learn belongs to each person , not to the organization, it is the responsibility of the organization to create an environment in which this can happen. Collective learning is needed to make an impact towards meaningful and lasting change. For this, an organization must understand that individual change is a learning process.

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2020 guide to task management

Monday

No matter if you’re working on a specific project or just going about your daily business, chances are you have a long list of things you need to do on any given day. Just randomly completing tasks whenever you think of them is a good way to go out of business. “Oh, right, I need to prepare materials for the sales meeting in 30 minutes.”. It’s not a good look.

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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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Building next generation shopping centres and department stores

Clarasys

To thrive in a digital age, shopping centres and department stores have to reinvent themselves, and go beyond digital in order to stay relevant, combining bricks and clicks. Shopping centres have been at the centre of communities for decades and their appeal has spread beyond the United States to form vibrant and lucrative environments. That is why, in the United States alone, the number of malls quadrupled between 1970 and 2017 – but much has changed since then.

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Get your team on the right track with a project management dashboard

Monday

What is a project management dashboard? It’s a tool, a weapon, and a lifesaver all in one. Did you ever watch Star Trek and wish you had a computer like Captain Kirk’s? One that could tell you anything about any part of your starship at a moment’s notice? That’s what a project management dashboard is. It’s a central location for all of your key performance indicators (KPIs), such as to-do lists, team workloads, resource allocation, and anything else that can tell you if your project is on track