July, 2021

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Data Strategy: The Missing Link in Your Digital Transformation Plan

Smart Data Collective

On the surface, digital transformation is a simple process. You take a business activity that is old and ineffective/inefficient and re-energize it with new technology. This could be moving your spreadsheets to cloud software or even going so far as to move up from paper to digital. There is nothing inherently wrong with this process, but the way digital transformation is deployed often misses powerful opportunities ripe for the taking.

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Golden Rules of Stakeholder Engagement in Business Analysis

BA Times

What makes business analysis on a project effective?1 Is it just about allocating a business analyst (BA) to the project to produce business analysis deliverables on time, or is it about effectively communicating and engaging with stakeholders? While both are tactical prerequisites, we believe that engaging with stakeholders is key to any effective project implementation. […].

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Integrating and Visualising Multiple Microsoft To Do Accounts with Power BI

BI Insight

It’s been a while that I use Microsoft To Do to organise my daily tasks. From work-related tasks to buy groceries. While Microsoft To Do is super easy to use but there are some challenges in using it more efficiently, especially when you have multiple O365 accounts within different organisations. Here are some of the … Continue reading Integrating and Visualising Multiple Microsoft To Do Accounts with Power BI.

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What is Threat Modeling: Process and Methodologies | Simplilearn

Simplilearn

With the number of hacking incidents on the rise, cybersecurity remains a top concern in today's IT world. So many aspects of our lives have migrated online that the commercial and private worlds alike have much to lose from security breaches. In response, cybersecurity professionals are deploying an arsenal of defenses and countermeasures to keep t.

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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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Key Differences Between Business Analysts and Business Analytics Professionals

Analyst Catalyst Blog

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Can Online Machine Learning Tools Help with Personal Financial Management?

Smart Data Collective

Artificial intelligence is rapidly changing the state of finance. There is a lot of discussion about financial institutions relying on AI technology to better serve their customers. Intuitively, this also means that consumers stand to benefit from advances in artificial intelligence as well. However, they should not be passive about waiting for their bank, insurance company or other financial institution to advise them about new technology that can assist them.

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Job Crafting for BAs

BA Times

You don’t have to change roles or organizations to get more enjoyment and satisfaction from your work. There are many ways to make your current job work better for you. Job Descriptions The description of the BA role looks fairly similar from one organization to the next. Some ask for a bit of specialization, some […]. The post Job Crafting for BAs appeared first on Business Analyst Articles, Webinars, Templates, Jobs.

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A New Era for the Intelligent Enterprise, with RISE with SAP

Timo Elliott

My updated, 10-minute summary of the different components of SAP’s Intelligent Enterprise vision, with information on RISE with SAP, a program to help you become one! And there’s a version in French here !

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Program Preview: Post Graduate Diploma in Management by JAGSOM | Simplilearn webinar starts 10-08-2021 15:30

Simplilearn

The Jagdish Sheth School of Management has introduced a Post Graduate Diploma in Management in partnership with Simplilearn. Join our leadership panel on Tuesday, August 10, 2021, at 9 PM IST (8:30 AM PDT/11:30 AM EDT) for a unique in-depth look at the diploma program. Our panelists are: Dr. Jagdish Sheth, Chairman, JAGSOM Dr. Atish Chattopadhyay, Read More.

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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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IIBA Launches Its KnowledgeHub

Analyst Catalyst Blog

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Rise of the Cyborgs: Using AI/ML to Enhance Human Intelligence (Part 1)

Dataversity

Click to learn more about author Assaf Egozi. Modern organizations house a growing number of “citizen data analysts.” These individuals hold a wide range of positions in the enterprise, from executive and business roles through to data, business, operations, marketing, and sales analyst roles. They work across a wide range of functions, striving to improve insights into […].

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Is Machine Learning Changing Our Approach to Asset Management?

Smart Data Collective

Wealth and asset management has come a long way, evolving through the use of artificial intelligence, or AI solutions. It is not meant to replace people and threaten their livelihood, but to strengthen the connection between businesses and their customers. Machine learning (ML) is a form of AI that is becoming more widely used in the market because of the rising number of AI vendors in the banking industry.

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What Can We Learn from Crime Fiction in Business Analysis?

BA Times

Crime fiction never sleeps. A mere Google result yields an estimated 25-40% of the fiction genre in print, is attributed to crime fiction novels and novella, yearly. These heavyweight numbers pull no punches when dominating the publishing market and continue to churn out as newcomer and veteran authors delve into this twisty and plot-driven genre. […].

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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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Citizen Data Scientists Deliver Business Intelligence!

ElegantJ BI

Why Should My Business Want Citizen Data Scientists? These days, it seems that every conference I attend, there is a discussion about Citizen Data Scientists. For some of my colleagues, the discussion seems irrelevant or, in some cases, daunting. If you are hesitant to embrace this type of initiative in your business, here are a few Gartner predictions that might convince you to at least consider this crucial shift in business culture and data literacy.

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Program Preview: Post Graduate Program in DevOps | Simplilearn webinar starts 17-08-2021 15:30

Simplilearn

Hear About the Post Graduate Program in DevOps from the Caltech CTME Program Director Live! DevOps has transformed how software gets developed, tested, deployed, and maintained in ways that have transformed our world. If you want to help drive this transformation, you can become a certified DevOps professional. Join Rick Hefner, Caltech CTME Progra.

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Why Business Analysis Professionals are Critical to the Success of Agile Teams

Analyst Catalyst Blog

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The Duality of DBaaS: Friend or Foe?

Dataversity

Click to learn more about author Matt Yonkovit. A forest fire is a powerful force of nature. Capable of massive destruction, but also with the potential to bring forth new life and facilitate positive growth. Cloud database-as-a-service offerings have a similar duality. The power of the cloud has transformed our technology infrastructure. Nowhere is this more evident […].

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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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Top 10 Big Data CRM Tools To Increase Business Sales

Smart Data Collective

Big data technology is incredibly important in modern business. One of the most important applications of big data is with building relationships with customers. Every enterprise wants to improve its business relationship and productivity. Therefore, CRM software comes into the picture to help enterprises achieve their business targets. These software tools rely on sophisticated big data algorithms and allow companies to boost their sales, business productivity and customer retention.

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Mission Impossible: BYO Mentor

BA Times

What is mentoring Mentoring in Europe has existed as early as Ancient Greece. The word’s origin comes from Mentor, son of Alcimus in Homer’s Odyssey. Mentorship is the influence, guidance, or direction given by a mentor. Mentors have hands-on experience that their mentees can learn from, so that the mentees can gain proficiency. [1] Mentoring […].

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Article: GitHub’s Journey From Monolith to Microservices

InfoQ Articles

This article explores GitHub's recent journey towards a microservices architecture. It takes a deeper look at GitHub’s historical and current state, goes over some internal and external factors, and discusses practical consideration points in how Github tackled their migration, including key concepts and best practices of implementing microservices architecture.

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[Webinar] How To Build a Successful Cyber Security Career In 2021 | Simplilearn webinar starts 05-08-2021 15:30

Simplilearn

Cyber Security has become more important than ever in 2021. At the same time that the COVID-19 pandemic forced a shift to more digital and online operations in all aspects of our lives, bad actors have become more persistent and aggressive in seeking to disrupt businesses, steal personal information, and extract cyber ransom. This creates plenty of.

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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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Converting Big Data into Actionable Intelligence

The Data Administration Newsletter

In today’s world, access to data is no longer a problem. There are such huge volumes of data generated in real-time that several businesses don’t know what to do with all of it. Unless big data is converted to actionable insights, there is nothing much an enterprise can do. And outdated data models no longer […].

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Lean Governance: The Next Machine to Change the World

Dataversity

Click to learn more about author Steve Zagoudis. Lean GovernanceTM is the next machine to change the world of Data Governance and Enterprise Data Management. As proponents of lean thinking, we view corporations as data factories that produce information for operations, reporting, and financial modeling. We were inspired by the 1990 groundbreaking book “The Machine that […].

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Understanding the Benefits And Risks Of Relying on AI

Smart Data Collective

John McCarthy invented the term Artificial Intelligence back in 1950. He said, “Every aspect of learning or any other feature of intelligence can in principle be so precisely described that a machine can be made to simulate it. An attempt will be made to find how to make machines use language, form abstractions, and concepts, solve kinds of problems now reserved for humans, and improve themselves.”.

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Oblivious or Attentive

BA Times

I was once demoing the specific functionality of an application. I was looking forward to my favorite part of the meeting: Q&A, but to my surprise, no one uttered a word. My mind was racing with questions: Was my delivery crystal clear that there were no questions? Was no one paying attention? Why the silence? […]. The post Oblivious or Attentive appeared first on Business Analyst Articles, Webinars, Templates, Jobs.

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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.