January, 2019

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Real-time Analytics: The Tool for Efficient Consumer Acquisition and Retention.

BizAcuity

Today, there is a vast ocean of data that is being amassed every minute, every day. The biggest challenge is what we make of that data and how fast. Real-time analytics is a practice that analyzes this data as and when it comes into the system. Analysts are continuously sifting through and studying this data in order to identify a pattern or identify important insights that help can help businesses make informed decisions.

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Why I’m Breaking Up with Facebook

Tim Mitchell

I have been in a serious relationship for more than 12 years. My partner in this relationship has brought me joy through the years, but lately, I feel like I’m giving to this relationship far more than I’m getting out of it. The relationship no longer brings me the joy that it once did, and has suffered from several breaches. The post Why I’m Breaking Up with Facebook appeared first on Tim Mitchell.

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Is Advanced Analytics the Next Logical Step Beyond Self-Serve Business Intelligence?

ElegantJ BI

Many organizations have grown comfortable with their business intelligence solution, and find it difficult to justify the need for advanced analytics. The advantages of advanced analytics are numerous and those advantages are based on the ability to further improve the business, increase user adoption (and therefore user empowerment and accountability) and, best of all, improve the bottom line and the accuracy of predictions and forecasts that will dictate the success of the business in the futu

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What is Experience Management?

Timo Elliott

SAP has announced its intention to acquire Qualtrics , a global pioneer in the area of experience management (XM) software. Experience management is the process of monitoring every interaction people experience with a company in order to discover opportunities for improvement. For decades, SAP has been the leader in business applications that generate and leverage operational data (O-data) — hard numbers like costs, accounting, and sales — to inform their business decisions.

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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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Tips for Rewriting a Digital Product

Roman Pichler

See the Rewriting Effort as an Opportunity to Innovate. A digital product is commonly redeveloped for two reasons: It has accumulated too much technical debt or its technologies are outdated, but the product is still needed—be it to generate revenue, support other revenue-generating products, or automate business processes and increase productivity.

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Reinventing the Casinos with Customer Behaviour Analysis

BizAcuity

Technology is the pursuit for more, isn’t it? Today, across all spectrums of business, technology is being used to empower smarter and efficient solutions. At BizAcuity, we’ve identified one such domain of business that we felt could use a technological makeover. And that is what today’s blog is about – Customer Behaviour Analysis.

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Kicking off 2019 with Mike Cottmeyer

Leading Agile

Iteration 2019 has begun and we’re starting off the year with an episode of SoundNotes where, LeadingAgile CEO and Founder, Mike Cottmeyer shares what’s on his mind as we begin the new year. During the interview Mike talks about some of the trends he’s been paying attention to in and around the Agile space, the changes he sees coming down the pike, and how that’s influencing his focus and expectations for the next 12 months.

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Is Advanced Analytics the Next Logical Step Beyond Self-Serve Business Intelligence?

ElegantJ BI

Many organizations have grown comfortable with their business intelligence solution, and find it difficult to justify the need for advanced analytics. The advantages of advanced analytics are numerous and those advantages are based on the ability to further improve the business, increase user adoption (and therefore user empowerment and accountability) and, best of all, improve the bottom line and the accuracy of predictions and forecasts that will dictate the success of the business in the futu

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#AskSAP 2019 Analytic Trends Webinar

Timo Elliott

Andy Bitterer and Timo Elliott talking about the top ten analytic trends for 2019. The first #AskSAP web seminar of the year was on the topic of the top trends in analytics for 2019. It was hosted by Avery Horzewski and featured SAP Analytic Evangelist Andy Bitterer and myself chatting about our top ten favorite themes for this year in the area of business intelligence, analytics, data platforms, big data, and artificial intelligence.

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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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Using the Product Canvas to Define Your Product: Getting Started

EBG Consulting

I usually find a diversity of opinion when I ask anyone within an organization what their products are. This is true for product companies whose primary source of revenue is their product and for companies who use products internally to run their business. This comes from a lack of shared understanding. Not having agreement on “what is our product” is particularly problematic in large enterprises that have built complex organizational structures.

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User Stories and Acceptance Criteria

The BA Doc

A user story is defined as a concise statement of functionality or quality needed to deliver value to a specific user. They are used to promote discussion, size, or estimate effort, and most importantly, ask who, what, a.

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What does 'Bandersnatch' teach us about data storytelling?

Juice Analytics

“TV of tomorrow is now here.” So says The Guardian. The TV show that brought us into the future is Bandersnatch , the recently released interactive television show from the Black Mirror anthology. Bandersnatch is sort of modern reincarnation of the Choose Your Own Adventure books of your childhood. Some reviewers raved about the new experience: "This is what Bandersnatch gave me that no other movie had ever been able to.

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The Value of Improving Your Technical Practices w/ Rich Dammkoehler

Leading Agile

This episode of SoundNotes features, LeadingAgile Technical Consultant, Rich Dammkoehler in a conversation about why it is so important to make sure your organization is focused on improving their technical practices. If you’re struggling with helping your organization understand why introducing technical practices like collective code ownership, refactoring, pair programming, and test-driven development is such a crucial part of attaining business Agility; this podcast will help you build

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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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Is Advanced Analytics the Next Logical Step Beyond Self-Serve Business Intelligence?

ElegantJ BI

Many organizations have grown comfortable with their business intelligence solution, and find it difficult to justify the need for advanced analytics. The advantages of advanced analytics are numerous and those advantages are based on the ability to further improve the business, increase user adoption (and therefore user empowerment and accountability) and, best of all, improve the bottom line and the accuracy of predictions and forecasts that will dictate the success of the business in the futu

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Building the Intelligent Enterprise

Timo Elliott

Here’s a short recording explaining how the intelligent enterprises of the future can use the latest technologies such as machine learning to optimize the end-to-end customer experience, increase productivity, and improve workforce engagement.

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Look Who’s Talking: 4 Tips on How to Boost Your Social Media Engagement

The Analyst Agency

Look Who’s Talking: 4 Tips for Boosting Your Social Media EngagementBy Steven Czyrny If all your social media is gathering is crickets, it’s time to take advantage of these tips for social media engagement. Read on to get your audience talking. Are you trying to boost your social media engagement? Guess what: you’re not the […].

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Year in Review: Actian’s Top 5 Highlights of 2018

Actian

2018 was a year of solid growth and progress for Actian, with many announcements and company highlights – including a major acquisition, a proprietary event, product innovations and much more! It was a truly memorable year for us, and as we ramp up in 2019 we wanted to take a look back with you at some of our most impactful activity and advancements over the last twelve months.

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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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User Stories and Acceptance Criteria

The BA Doc

A user story is defined as a concise statement of functionality or quality needed to deliver value to a specific user. They are used to promote discussion, size or estimate effort, and most importantly, ask who, what, an.

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Measuring the Impact of Change in Agile Transformation w/ Jeff Howey

Leading Agile

If your company is working on Agile Transformation, understanding how you can track the organization’s response to change and the impact it’s having on business outcomes can be a bit daunting. It’s not so tough to track whether or not people have been trained and what practices they are using, but when it comes to understanding what people see, feel, believe, and desire, that can be harder to understand. .

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Deep Dive Analytics Makes Analysis Clear and Effective!

ElegantJ BI

Can Deep Dive Make My Analytics More Meaningful? When it comes to data analytics, one can skim the surface, or take a deep dive into the data and, in so doing, find those hidden ‘nuggets’ of information that will change the perspective of the business, confirm a theory or reveal the root cause of a problem. With the right business intelligence solution, deep dive analytics is accessible to every business user.

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Agility vs Consistency? (cartoon)

Timo Elliott

I talked to a CEO a few weeks ago who insisted that it was important not to impose software choices on the different divisions of his conglomerate organization, so the company could be as agile and flexible as possible. But in an era where having a strong data foundation is an important part of pivoting to new business models, is that still a viable point of view?

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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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These Are the 5 Digital Marketing Trends You Need to Know for 2019

The Analyst Agency

These Are the 5 Digital Marketing Trends You Need to Know for 2019By Steven Czyrny Grabbing and holding your audience’s attention has never been more important. These are the 5 digital marketing trends in 2019 that will help you do that. Digital marketing trends are evolving with each second that passes. If you’ve resolved to […]. The post These Are the 5 Digital Marketing Trends You Need to Know for 2019 appeared first on The Analyst Agency.

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8 Tips For Implementing A Successful Business Intelligence Strategy

Business Analyst Learnings

In order to keep your business competitive, drive growth, ensure continuous improvement and enhance profits, a Business Intelligence (BI) strategy is essential. But a BI strategy is not just about technology or choosing the right platform. Like any part of your business, BI requires strategy, planning, buy-in, execution and continuous review. In this blog post, we will look at the key steps to implementing a business intelligence strategy.

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Fishbone Diagram

The BA Doc

The fishbone diagram is a visual way of determining the causes of an organizational problem (effect) and their relationship to that problem. It is primarily used in root cause analysis to determine underlying causes. The.

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Agile Estimation A SoundNotes Tutorial

Leading Agile

Estimating work in Agile is something many people struggle to understand. It’s not that it’s an especially complicated thing, but there is often confusion about things like why many people prefer to use story points instead of hours, why some people feel compelled to try and convert story points to hours (and why some of us find that so frightening), how t-shirt sizing works, and the eternal question of how do I get my teams to estimate accurately.

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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.