September, 2019

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The Role of Big Data In The Maintenance Industry

Smart Data Collective

As industry buzzwords, “Big Data” is one of those phrases that has become seemingly ubiquitous. Everyone wants to be using big data to better their operation. The maintenance department is no exception to this trend. Accordingly, maintenance teams are beginning to embrace the use of big data and analytics to improve performance. In emphasizing the use of “big data”, maintenance can establish predictive maintenance programs, which reduce downtime and save on maintenance costs.

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Consolidating Patron’s Data – To Increase Casinos’ ROI

BizAcuity

Admit it or not, casinos are booming to become a much bigger playground for businesses. With most operating within a hotel-like framework, there are more ways to engage their customers than ever before. From an operational standpoint, this means that casino-owners need to deploy different systems in different places across the floor of the casino to ensure seamless functioning.

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Combining Technology & Creativity for a new Digital Renaissance

Timo Elliott

A quick 13-minute presentation from last year’s Mentes Brillantes in Madrid, talking about the digital enterprise revolution, using real-world examples of artificial intelligence, blockchain, and analytics, and talking about the importance of creativity and new business models. I was speaking slowly to try and make it easy to follow (I was the only presenter who didn’t do it in Spanish).

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Data Analytics Software Need Not be Out of Reach!

ElegantJ BI

Data Analytics Can Transform Users to Citizen Data Scientists! The term ‘data analytics can seem daunting to the average business user. Isn’t analytics something that is the sole domain of data scientists? No, actually it is not! Today’s Data Analytics Tools are designed for the average business user and make it easier than ever to gather, analyze and understand data.

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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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Power BI Ecosystem Report Authoring Tools Demystified

BI Insight

There are a lot of discussions these days around Power BI tools to create reports and for sure many of you may have already downloaded and worked with some of them if not all of them. You may already think that some of the tools’ names are confusingly similar. I recently had an interesting conversation … Continue reading Power BI Ecosystem Report Authoring Tools Demystified.

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Big Data Paves The Road For A New Generation Of Investing Apps

Smart Data Collective

Big data is changing the financial industry in a truly astounding way. Countless financial professionals are looking towards machine learning and other new tools to improve the quality of the services that they offer to their customers. K. Hussain of Atos Spain published a white paper on the growing relevance of big data in the finance and insurance verticals.

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Consolidating Patron’s Data – The Next Big Move to Increase Casinos’ ROI

BizAcuity

Admit it or not, casinos are booming to become a much bigger playground for businesses. With most operating within a hotel-like framework, there are more ways to engage their customers than ever before. From an operational standpoint, this means that casino-owners need to deploy different systems in different places across the floor of the casino to ensure seamless functioning.

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Elevate the Digital Transformation Debate!

Timo Elliott

I hope you can join us for the Elevate conference in lovely Toronto! I’ll be doing a keynote as part of the Digital Transformation track on Monday October 23rd, talking about how the latest technologies are transforming the way the world works. For more details, take a look at my quick overview video — it’s literally an “elevator pitch” the Elevate event!

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Data Analytics Software Need Not be Out of Reach!

ElegantJ BI

Data Analytics Can Transform Users to Citizen Data Scientists! The term ‘data analytics can seem daunting to the average business user. Isn’t analytics something that is the sole domain of data scientists? No, actually it is not! Today’s Data Analytics Tools are designed for the average business user and make it easier than ever to gather, analyze and understand data.

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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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Good Practices: Always Display the Reporting Environment

BI Insight

When you work on real-world projects in power BI, you would probably have different environments Like DEV, UAT, Pre-Prod and Prod. It is important for you and your audience to know what the data is coming from. Am I looking at Dev or UAT data or I am actually looking at real data in Production … Continue reading Good Practices: Always Display the Reporting Environment.

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Using the SSIS Term Extraction for Data Exploration

Tim Mitchell

Data exploration is an essential piece of any new ETL (extraction-transformation-load) process. Knowing the structure, type, and even the semantics of data sources can help the ETL developer or architect to make better decisions on data type and length settings, transformation logic, and error handling procedures. Additionally, there are situations in which the exploration of the data is the principal.

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7 Advantages of Using Encryption Technology for Data Protection

Smart Data Collective

Data breaches are becoming more common in today’s society. Hackers know they can sell compromised information on the dark web or use it for purposes such as blackmail. However, encryption technology for data protection is widely available. It involves protecting information with cryptography via a scrambled code. Only people with the key to decode the data can read it.

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How to Choose Between Cloud-Based and On-premise Solutions

BizAcuity

Today, businesses run on huge amounts of data. Data is the backbone of most business decisions and hence data storage and management is a huge question. Businesses today have many choices when it comes to data storage. The obvious choice is to rely on traditional, time-tested legacy and on premise applications and software to do business. The other emerging option is to use the cloud to host your data as against just keeping everything within your own network.

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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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How Data is Powering The Future of Business: Trends and Opportunities

Timo Elliott

At the SAP UK Journey to the Top event this week, I presented a keynote on “How Data is Powering The Future of Business: Trends and Opportunities.” After struggling to find some way to talk about data that hasn’t already been covered a thousand times over the last few decades, I ended up focusing on real-world examples of organizations that have used data to innovate the way they do business.

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Data Analytics Software Need Not be Out of Reach!

ElegantJ BI

Data Analytics Can Transform Users to Citizen Data Scientists! The term ‘data analytics can seem daunting to the average business user. Isn’t analytics something that is the sole domain of data scientists? No, actually it is not! Today’s Data Analytics Tools are designed for the average business user and make it easier than ever to gather, analyze and understand data.

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Power BI Ecosystem Report Authoring Tools Demystified

BI Insight

There are a lot of discussions these days around Power BI tools to create reports and for sure many of you may have already downloaded and worked with some of them if not all of them. You may also already thought that some of the tools’ names are confusingly similar. I recently had an interesting … Continue reading Power BI Ecosystem Report Authoring Tools Demystified.

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Using Project Connections in SSIS

Tim Mitchell

In SQL Server Integration Services, connection managers are used as gateways for most any external read and write operation. Connection managers are type- and format-specific, and in the case of relational database connection managers, they are usually specific to vendor (Oracle, DB2, etc.) as well. In most use cases, the same connection will be used across multiple packages in the.

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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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How Big Data Is Transforming Social Media Marketing

Smart Data Collective

Big Data is among one of the most impressive tech advancements that have hit the marketing world in recent memory. While it has been tossed around as a buzzword in certain circles, Big Data is so much more than just a phrase. For a definition , Oracle recommends Gartner’s 2001 description of Big Data, which describes it as data containing a greater variety, getting to the source in increasing volume and at ever-higher velocity.

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Consolidating Patron’s Data – To Increase Casinos’ ROI

BizAcuity

Admit it or not, casinos are booming to become a much bigger playground for businesses. With most operating within a hotel-like framework, there are more ways to engage their customers than ever before. From an operational standpoint, this means that casino-owners need to deploy different systems in different places across the floor of the casino to ensure seamless functioning.

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Elevate Tech Fest Toronto: Digital Transformation & Analytics

Timo Elliott

On Monday, I presented a keynote for the Digital Transformation track of the Elevate Tech Fest in Toronto, coving the top digital trends, illustrated with real-world examples. The presentation and video are below: ?. [Apologies for the sound quality of the video].

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Visual Analytics for Business Users!

ElegantJ BI

Data Visualization Tools Provide Crucial Decision Support! If they are to help your users achieve their goals and understand what is happening within your organization, data visualization tools must be easy to use, with sophisticated functionality and an intuitive user interface. If you want business users to leverage data visualization software, you have to give them something they can easily use and adopt with smart visualization that will recommend the best way to process and visualize data,

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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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Good Practices: Always Display the Reporting Environment

BI Insight

When you work on real-world projects in power BI, you would probably have different environments Like DEV, UAT, Pre-Prod and Prod. It is important for you and your audience to know what the data is coming from. Am I looking at Dev or UAT data or I am actually looking at real data in Production … Continue reading Good Practices: Always Display the Reporting Environment.

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Get Started with the For Loop Container in SSIS

Tim Mitchell

SQL Server Integration Services is equipped with tasks and containers to make it easy to design and maintain the flow of ETL: which logic should be executed, when should it be executed, and how many times should it occur. Most SSIS developers are familiar with the sequence container and the For Each Loop container, which can be used to group. The post Get Started with the For Loop Container in SSIS appeared first on Tim Mitchell.

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Machine Learning Is The Latest Stage Of Text To Speech Technology

Smart Data Collective

Machine learning has played a very important role in the development of technology that has a large impact on our everyday lives. However, machine learning is also influencing the direction of technology that is not as commonplace. Text to speech technology is a prime example. Text to speech technology predates machine learning by over a century. However, machine learning has made the technology more reliable than ever.

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Consolidating Data – The Next Big Move to Increase Casinos’ ROI.

BizAcuity

Admit it or not, casinos are booming to become a much bigger playground for businesses. With most operating within a hotel-like framework, there are more ways to engage their customers than ever before. From an operational standpoint, this means that casino-owners need to deploy different systems in different places across the floor of the casino to ensure seamless functioning.

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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.