August, 2020

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How Big Data has Redefined the Legal Industry

Smart Data Collective

Rooted in Greek civilization, law is one of the world’s oldest professions, and for all these years, particularly in America, has been steadfast in its commitment to justice for all, and as a way to change things for the better. American lawyer Clarence Darrow, once said, “Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom.”.

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My New Favorite Demo Dataset: Dunder Mifflin Data

Tim Mitchell

Those of us who write technical articles and deliver technical presentations are always on the lookout for the perfect data set for demonstration and testing. Microsoft has done a good job of putting together sample databases including Wide World Importers, AdventureWorks, and Northwind Traders. Personally, I’ve found each of these useful, but I had no particular attachment to any of.

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Quick Tips, Power BI Desktop, Query Parameters, Part 4, Passing Power Query Parameter Values to SQL Server Stored Procedures

BI Insight

I have written 3 blogposts about query parameters in the past. Power BI Desktop Query Parameters, Part 1, Introduction Power BI Desktop Query Parameters, Part2, Dynamic Data Masking and Query Parameters Power BI Desktop Query Parameters, Part 3, List Output This is the fourth one in the form of Quick Tips. Here is the scenario. … Continue reading Quick Tips, Power BI Desktop, Query Parameters, Part 4, Passing Power Query Parameter Values to SQL Server Stored Procedures.

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How We Filter Information

BA Times

As BAs we pride ourselves on our attention to detail, but what do we attend to and what are we filtering out?

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Recruit and Retain New Blue-Collar Talent

Blue-collar jobs have a branding problem. One company, GEON, partnered with Paycor to find the solution. Learn how to attract, engage, and retain blue-collar employees, helping them build meaningful careers – and support your company’s goals.

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Tips to Enable Better Business Outcomes | Analyst Catalyst Blog

Analyst Catalyst Blog

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Productivity Vs. Privacy: What Data Do Businesses Gather From Remote Staff?

Smart Data Collective

Since businesses made the shift to remote work at the start of the pandemic, they’ve faced a lot of unexpected questions and circumstances and solved a lot of problems on the fly. It’s been hard, but overall, they’ve done a remarkable job. There’s one area, however, where businesses have largely floundered: remote monitoring. Remote monitoring includes a wide range of functions, from offsite data collection to key tracking tools and even video-based monitoring, and though some of these tools are

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Creating Your First Azure Data Factory

Tim Mitchell

Azure Data Factory has grown in both popularity and utility in the past several years. It has grown well beyond its significant limitations in its initial version, and is quickly rising as a strong enterprise-capable ETL tool. In my last post on this topic, I shared my comparison between SQL Server Integration Services and ADF. In this post, I’ll walk.

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Quick Tips, Power BI Desktop, Query Parameters, Part 4, Passing Power Query Parameter Values to SQL Server Stored Procedures

BI Insight

I have written 3 blogposts about query parameters in the past. Power BI Desktop Query Parameters, Part 1, Introduction Power BI Desktop Query Parameters, Part2, Dynamic Data Masking and Query Parameters Power BI Desktop Query Parameters, Part 3, List Output This is the fourth one in the form of Quick Tips. Here is the scenario. … Continue reading Quick Tips, Power BI Desktop, Query Parameters, Part 4, Passing Power Query Parameter Values to SQL Server Stored Procedures.

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NLP and Contextual Search Analytics!

ElegantJ BI

How Can Clickless Analysis and NLP Support Business User Analytics? An advanced analytics solution that is designed for augmented analytics, must be easy enough for the average business user to achieve results without IT skills or the skills of a data scientist. When a business user can leverage clickless analytics search capability, the user can achieve rapid, clear results and use those results to solve problems, share information and optimize opportunities for the business.

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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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Four Ways to Enable Product Recommendations from Technical Experts | Analyst Catalyst Blog

Analyst Catalyst Blog

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What is a Modern BA?

BA Squared

The Definition of a Modern BA. A Modern BA is a BA who leads a group through a problem solving and solution process with the customer/user at the center of the analysis, knowing that all other details will follow. A deeper dive into what constitutes a Modern BA is a bit of a longer listicle. A Modern BA: Acts as if the highest value of their role is to make the customer’s interactions with the organization/product/service better, and incorporates this into everything they do!

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Data Analytics Is Vital To Digital Marketing Training During Pandemic

Smart Data Collective

Digital marketing is becoming more important during the pandemic. One study in the UK found that 65% of consumers increased spending during the crisis. Companies are investing more in digital marketing to respond to changing consumer behavior. Unfortunately, they have also found it difficult to train employees. Fortunately, new data analytics advances can help.

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Common Product Vision Board Mistakes

Roman Pichler

A Brief Guide to this Article. This article assumes that you are familiar with the product vision board or the key elements of a product strategy : market, value proposition, standout features, and business goals. The overall example I use to illustrate the mistakes is a healthy eating app that helps its users improve their eating habits and live more healthily.

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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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Trust vs. Trustworthiness w/ Yaton Bowens

Leading Agile

Listen to the SoundNotes Podcast on the go! Find and subscribe to SoundNotes on: Apple Podcasts. Google Play. Spotify. Soundcloud. RSS. This week in SoundNotes, LeadingAgile Managing Consultant Yaton Bowens joins Dave to talk about the role that trust plays in Agile Transformation. Building on Mike Cottmeyers’ Trust vs. Trustworthiness webinar, Yaton and Dave dig into some of the trust gaps that management and the Development Teams have to cross for an Agile Transformation to take root in an org

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NLP and Contextual Search Analytics!

ElegantJ BI

How Can Clickless Analysis and NLP Support Business User Analytics? An advanced analytics solution that is designed for augmented analytics, must be easy enough for the average business user to achieve results without IT skills or the skills of a data scientist. When a business user can leverage clickless analytics search capability, the user can achieve rapid, clear results and use those results to solve problems, share information and optimize opportunities for the business.

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Design Thinking in A Waterfall World | Analyst Catalyst Blog

Analyst Catalyst Blog

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How to Achieve Product-Led Growth [+Webinar]

280 Group

What is Product-Led Growth? If you keep up on the latest Product Management best practices, you’d have a hard time missing the bustling discussion around Product-Led Growth, or “PLG” as it’s termed. PLG is among the fastest-growing practices for companies and products at all lifecycle phases. Like many fast-moving forces, it also threatens to disrupt the status quo for so many companies in the way they have managed their growth via traditional marketing and sales teams and programs.

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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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5 Amazing Benefits Of Big Data For Business Owners In 2020

Smart Data Collective

The big data market is exploding. According to Markets and Markets, it will be worth $229 billion in the next five years. Despite the rapid evolution of big data, many small businesses are overlooking its benefits. You should not make this mistake. You should consider the vast benefits of big data and invest in it accordingly. Why Small Businesses Overlook Big Data (And Should Start Embracing it).

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Oath for an Agile Coach

Growing Agile

I was browsing LinkedIn recently and came across a post by the legendary Alex Sloley where he stated that he had signed the Oath for an Agile Coach. I was curious, looked into it and decided it was good. The Oath is modelled on the Hippocratic Oath taken by physicians, and whilst it is just a bit of fun, I find the values to be worth remembering and indeed living by as we go about our business day to day.

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A Beginner’s Guide To Inventory Metrics And Best Practices

Data Pine

In our cutthroat digital economy, massive amounts of data are gathered, stored, analyzed, and optimized to deliver the best possible experience to customers and partners. At the same time, inventory metrics are needed to help managers and professionals in reaching established goals, optimizing processes, and increasing business value. That said, It’s extremely important setting up and tracking the inventory KPIs for your business is in order to evaluate and improve your performance.

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NLP and Contextual Search Analytics!

ElegantJ BI

How Can Clickless Analysis and NLP Support Business User Analytics? An advanced analytics solution that is designed for augmented analytics, must be easy enough for the average business user to achieve results without IT skills or the skills of a data scientist. When a business user can leverage clickless analytics search capability, the user can achieve rapid, clear results and use those results to solve problems, share information and optimize opportunities for the business.

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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.

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How Are Higher Education Members Reshaping Business Analysis? Part Two | Analyst Catalyst Blog

Analyst Catalyst Blog

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Leveraging Agile to Get Predictable

Leading Agile

Agile isn’t ever really about Agile. It’s about creating business outcomes. In our Business Drivers of Agility webinar series hosted by LeadingAgile CEO, Mike Cottmeyer, Mike dives deep into six key business drivers to uncover how Agile can enable organizations to connect these drivers to better business outcomes. In this first webinar, we start with predictability.

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Real Estate and Big Data: A Match Made in Heaven?

Smart Data Collective

It’s easy to draw correlations between big data and certain areas of the business world. For example, it makes sense that a tech company would leverage big data, or that a software company would use it to develop a cutting edge SaaS offering. But in real estate, does big data really have a place at the table? Those inside the industry would say yes – and resoundingly so!

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The Business Analyst's Guide To Running Virtual Workshops

Business Analyst Learnings

The new normal of online working is bound to introduce new habits and learning opportunities for business analysts looking to navigate the tides of the post-pandemic workplace. From running physical workshops with a room filled with eager participants to managing virtual workshops where participants are in different geographical locations with some participants perhaps preferring to hide behind their screens.

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Facilitate Risk Management for Medical Devices within Azure DevOps

In this whitepaper, we will describe how to facilitate risk management for medical devices directly in Azure DevOps. In particular, we will focus on how manufacturers can achieve ISO 14971 compliance and overcome key challenges in the process.