January, 2021

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Four Ways Great BAs Can Start The New Year Right!

BA Squared

Review, Renew, and Reconnect in 2021! Don’t let the new year sneak up on you. Now is the perfect time to follow these four simple ways to start the new year off right, and take charge of what you are getting out of your career and life. Take some time to plan your year! I know this sounds funny, but just like product and project planning, we need to have a vision and intention for the year.

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Your Data Won’t Speak Unless You Ask It The Right Data Analysis Questions

Data Pine

In our cutthroat digital age, the importance of setting the right data analysis questions can define the overall success of a business. It is not just important to gather all the existing information, but to consider the preparation of data and utilize it in the proper way, has become an indispensable value in developing a successful business strategy.

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Understanding The Impacts of Social Media: Pros and Cons | Simplilearn

Simplilearn

Information and communication technology has changed rapidly over the past 20 years, with a key development being the emergence of social media. The pace of change is accelerating. For example, the development of mobile technology has played an essential role in shaping the impact of social media. Across the globe, mobile devices dominate in t. Read More.

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Big Data Plays Key Role in Helping Satellites Get Launched into Orbit

Smart Data Collective

Big data is changing the space race in ways that original founders at NASA and other global space exploration organizations never foresaw decades ago. Miriam Kramer, an author with Axios, talked about the growing number of space companies that are finding new ways to utilize big data. They hope new advances in data technology will help them connect with new markets.

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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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The Art and Science of FP&A Storytelling

Timo Elliott

I recently participated in a web seminar on the Art and Science of FP&A Storytelling, hosted by the founder and CEO of FP&A Research Larysa Melnychuk along with other guests Pasquale della Puca , part of the global finance team at Beckman Coulter and Angelica Ancira , Global Digital Planning Lead at PepsiCo. With advanced analytics, flexible dashboarding and effective data visualization, FP&A storytelling has become both an art and science.

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5 Kinds of Software to Streamline Online Business Processes

BA Times

Inefficient processes can cost your business 20% to 30% of revenue loss every year.Inefficient processes can cost your business 20% to 30% of revenue loss every year.

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How to Thrive as a Business Analyst in the New Normal

Analyst Catalyst Blog

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Top 9 New Technology Trends for 2021 | Simplilearn

Simplilearn

Technology today is evolving at such a rapid pace, enabling faster change and progress, causing an acceleration of the rate of change, until eventually it will become exponential. However, it is not only technology trends and top technologies that are evolving, a lot more has changed this year due to the outbreak of COVID-19 making IT professionals.

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Customer Data Analytics is Critical to the Future of Account-Based Marketing

Smart Data Collective

We have talked at length about the importance of data analytics in the field of marketing. Data analytics offers many useful insights for companies striving to boost their market share. One of the best applications of data analytics is through enhanced account-based marketing. There are a lot of ways to use big data to get a better understanding of a target customer group, which is a vital part of any marketing strategy.

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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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Being curious about you

Growing Agile

2020 has been a tough year for many, myself included. This pandemic has shifted our lives completely. I haven’t seen my friends in a year. I haven’t met any of the people I’ve worked with in the past year. And the only people I’ve spent time with are those living in my house. For months we’ve been looking forward to a new year and now that it’s arrived, not much has changed, if anything we’re more isolated as we try to keep safe during the second wave.

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Data Analytics Will Power a Transformation of Supply Chains in the Post-Pandemic Environment

Dataversity

Click to learn more about author Vikas Mathur. COVID-19 exerted a disruptive impact on virtually every aspect of business across every sector — and supply chains were no exception. In a recent report, Deloitte said the pandemic might be “the black swan event that finally forces many companies, and entire industries, to rethink and transform […].

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Be Careful What You Wish For: The Hazards Of Being Target-Focused

BA Times

Be Careful What You Wish For: The Hazards Of Being Target-Focused. Business analysis often focuses on making a situation better. The challenge that I suspect many of us face is that it can be quite difficult to define what ‘better’ actually means, not least because different stakeholders often have very different perspectives. People working on the front-line will have a different set of needs, fears and aspirations compared with the executives who are steering the ship.

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Article: Building a SQL Database Audit System using Kafka, MongoDB and Maxwell's Daemon

InfoQ Articles

In this article, author discusses the importance of a database audit logging system outside of traditional built-in data replication, using technologies like Kafka, MongoDB, and Maxwell's Daemon. By Vishal Sinha.

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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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What is Big Data Analytics and Why It is Important? | Simplilearn

Simplilearn

Big Data is today, the hottest buzzword around, and with the amount of data being generated every minute by consumers, or/and businesses worldwide, there is huge value to be found in Big Data analytics. What is Big Data Analytics? Big Data analytics is a process used to extract meaningful insights, such as hidden patterns, unknown correlations. Read More.

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How Machine Learning Enhances Momentum of Cryptocurrency Price Movements

Smart Data Collective

Cryptocurrencies have become very important in the modern economy. They have also created numerous opportunities for informed investors to create diversified portfolios and take advantage of a market for assets that provide an exceptional ROI. Machine learning technology has made cryptocurrency investing opportunities more lucrative than ever. The impact of machine learning on the market for bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies is multifaceted.

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Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast

Growing Agile

A few weeks ago I featured on the Scrum Master Toolbox podcast with Vasco Duarte and Yves Hanoulle. We talked about continuous improvement and the importance of learning to speak up freely as a team… Let me know what you think. The post Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast appeared first on Growing Agile.

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Why Now for AI in Manufacturing?

Dataversity

Click to learn more about author Venkat Eswara. Technology always evolves faster than our ability to adapt. AI is becoming mainstream in the consumer and enterprise sectors. So, it’s not a question of if but when AI will become the norm in the manufacturing sector. In fact, it already is. On the one hand, the COVID-19 pandemic has heightened […].

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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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We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Code: Testing Software Requirements

BA Times

Someone once asked me when you can begin testing software. “As soon as you’ve written your first requirement, you can begin testing,” I replied. It’s hard to visualize how a system will function by reading some requirements. Tests that are based on requirements make the expected system behaviors more tangible. Even the simple act of designing tests reveals many requirements problems long before you can execute those tests on a running system.

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Developer Platform news: January 2021

Tableau

Geraldine Zanolli. Developer Evangelist. Kristin Adderson. January 27, 2021 - 2:58am. January 27, 2021. Each month, our Developer Platform team pulls back the curtain on recent work to support our developer community during the monthly Tableau Developer Program Sprint Demos. As we start a new year, we’re excited to share important updates, including: Analytics extensions on Tableau Online, Tableau Server in a container, the new file format for Hyper API, and In-Product Extensions Gallery.

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Leveraging Data Science for COVID-19 Vaccine Administration | Simplilearn

Simplilearn

Globally, over 30 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccination have been dispensed throughout 43 countries. In the U.S., over nine million people have had at least one COVID-19 vaccination as of January 12, 2021, with 541,000 people completely vaccinated. As the global COVID-19 rollout continues to unfold, the challenge of vaccine administration. Read More.

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Blockchain: The Fall of Traditional Centralized Systems in Business & Finance

Smart Data Collective

Blockchain is one of the most important technologies to shape the world. One of the biggest industries that has been affected has been finance. The market for blockchain technology in the financial sector is expected to reach over $3 billion by 2024. The question many experts are asking is: “what factors are driving the growth in blockchain in the financial industry?

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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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Article: The Brain Is Neither a Neural Network nor a Computer: Book Review The Biological Mind

InfoQ Articles

Underlying much of artificial intelligence research is the idea that the essence of an individual resides in the brain. This is contrary to neuroscience which has discovered that a brain cannot work independently from the body and its environment. Understanding this enables us see what is reasonable to expect from artificial intelligence, as well as technology designed to improve human life.

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Four Ways Embedded BI Brings Productivity into Focus

Dataversity

Click to learn more about author Daniel Jebaraj. The purpose of any enterprise software application is to help businesses be more productive. And given the ever-growing number of applications of every stripe across every industry, you want the applications that you develop and sell to maximize the productivity of your customers. That’s the way to […].

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How to optimise resources in matrix organizations?

BA Times

Matrix organizations have prevailed for decades, predominantly in multi-project environments.

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30 Best Manufacturing KPIs and Metric Examples for 2021 Reporting

Insight Software

What is an Operations KPI? An Operations Key Performance Indicator (KPI) or metric is a discrete measurement that a company uses to monitor and evaluate the efficiency of its day-to-day operations. These operations KPIs help management identify which operational strategies are effective, and those that inhibit the company. Why Your Company Should Be Using Operational Metrics to Stay Competitive.

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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.