Smart Data Collective
OCTOBER 11, 2019
There are a lot of ways that organizations can leverage big data. Most of them don’t have difficulty collecting the data they need to make more informed decisions. However, they often struggle to conceptualize the data and present it in a format that supports their conclusions. This is one of the areas where a business dashboard can be useful. Big data has made business dashboards possible.
ElegantJ BI
OCTOBER 8, 2019
Augmented Analytics Benefits Include NLP for Easy Analysis! Everyone has heard the term ‘natural language processing or NLP. So, what is natural language processing, exactly, and how can it help your business? NLP allows a program or software to understand language as written/spoken by humans so that people can interact with a system without using long strings of code.
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Analyst Catalyst Blog
OCTOBER 8, 2019
Userzoom
OCTOBER 10, 2019
When trying to understand customer behavior on your website, a true intent study can help you uncover your visitors’ intentions. This should help answer questions such as, “Why are they coming to the site?” and “What are they trying to do?” Web analytics solutions, such as Google Analytics, will provide statistics on web traffic including number of visitors, page views, bounce rates, where visitors are going etc, but does not answer the why question i.e., the purpos
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Smart Data Collective
OCTOBER 7, 2019
Sinatra is a great web application library. It can be used to streamline development in Ruby and several other programming languages. A number of articles on Dzone have been written on using Sinatra to develop web applications and other solutions, but there didn’t appear to be an article on setting up Sinatra. We decided to provide a quick tutorial on this process.
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Analyst Catalyst Blog
OCTOBER 10, 2019
Roman Pichler
OCTOBER 7, 2019
Before You Start Prioritising …. Before you order the roadmap items, double-check that you have a validated product strategy in place. You should be able to confidently say why users would want to use your product and why it is worthwhile for your company to invest in it. In other words, you should have valid answers to the following questions: Which user problem will the product solve, or which benefit will it provide?
Forrester - Business Intelligence
OCTOBER 10, 2019
We’ve seen the promise of what enhanced data, analytics, and AI capabilities can do for businesses, but firms are struggling to truly maximize their impact. Data and analytics leaders want to shift into high gear, but many factors are holding them back. One of the key issues that everyone is facing is finding and developing […].
ElegantJ BI
OCTOBER 8, 2019
Augmented Analytics Benefits Include NLP for Easy Analysis! Everyone has heard the term ‘natural language processing or NLP. So, what is natural language processing, exactly, and how can it help your business? NLP allows a program or software to understand language as written/spoken by humans so that people can interact with a system without using long strings of code.
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Analyst Catalyst Blog
OCTOBER 8, 2019
Phocas
OCTOBER 8, 2019
In today’s dynamic marketplace, modern CEOs must operate from a new playbook. Resilience and the ability to quickly adapt to mercurial customer demands is the name of the game. Consequently, the modern CEO must have the tools to maintain a competitive advantage.
Managed Agile
OCTOBER 8, 2019
This is an article on an Agile search engine optimization project I recently completed that illustrates how to apply Agile thinking to a non-software project. I’ve previously written other articles on applying Agile thinking and techniques to non-software projects (See Related Articles below). This is another article on an Agile Search Engine Optimization project I recently completed on this very website.
Juice Analytics
OCTOBER 7, 2019
With all the talk about Data Literacy (led by folks like @Ben Jones , @Jordan Morrow , @Valerie Logan ) and/or Data Fluency (?? @Dalton Ruer ), the time is right for a more rigorous methodology for understanding the audiences for data dialogue. Which got me thinking: What if there was a Myers Briggs -style personality type indicator for data personalities?
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Sisense
OCTOBER 10, 2019
Blog. When “data engineer” first started becoming a vital role for tech companies, the world was a smaller, simpler place. Engineers were primarily concerned with handling data stored in Excel spreadsheets and on local machines. New tools were slowly introduced to deal with data as it grew in volume and complexity, but the overall landscape was largely unchanged until the rise of “The Cloud.
Data Pine
OCTOBER 10, 2019
If you want to convey crucial information to decision-makers in the easiest and most effective way possible, you need to embrace the power of interactive dashboards. A business dashboard offers at-a-glance insights based on key performance indicators (KPIs) and is an intuitive and visually pleasing way to consume data. Unlike early predecessors, they give presenters the ability to engage audiences with real-time data.
Business Analyst Mentor
OCTOBER 11, 2019
Having control of your business analyst career path is even more important than it was several years ago to provide a basis for business analyst career growth that is meaningful.
EBG Consulting
OCTOBER 10, 2019
I recently had the pleasure of being part of the “Women in Agile” podcast ( available here ). In the podcast, I discuss infusing product management with agile principles and practices. Leslie Morse , the podcast interviewer, summarized the highlights of our conversation as follows: “Ellen speculates a future where there will be a “blending of disciplines where you don’t necessarily have a business area and a technology area”, just one product team with interdisciplinary team members.
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Agile Velocity
OCTOBER 9, 2019
Culture is listed in many surveys as one of the biggest barriers organizations have in adopting Agile frameworks. While it is true that culture can be a blocker for change, culture can also be used to help accelerate adoption and transformation. Being able to identify and understand how culture is used at your organization is an important first step in any Agile framework adoption.
Juice Analytics
OCTOBER 10, 2019
“Can’t we sprinkle in some pie charts just to change things up?” If you’re in the information design business, you’ve probably heard some version on this request. Variety is the spice of life, right? I say: Get your spice elsewhere. Your audience doesn’t have interest in learning a bunch of different charts — and carrying an unnecessary cognitive load.
The BA Doc
OCTOBER 7, 2019
If you have been involved in any organizational change initiative, you’ve probably heard someone complain about how estimates are a waste of time because they are never accurate, right? This is because estimation is much.
QAT Global
OCTOBER 8, 2019
The Six Best Ways to Improve Business Agility One of the top phrases on the tip of most business leader’s tongue today is business agility. Everyday business has changed, and now it is imperative to create an agile environment where your organization can adapt and anticipate change; then respond accordingly as quickly and efficiently as possible. This is no easy task, [.].
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Actian
OCTOBER 7, 2019
If you are still using point-to-point integrations to move data through your IT environment, then you are spending too much money and missing the opportunities a modern data hub can provide. A data hub is a centralized service that connects all of your IT systems, whether they be Web applications, IoT devices, SaaS solutions, or core business platforms, such as CRM or ERP.
Phocas
OCTOBER 7, 2019
Phocas is pleased to announce the appointment of Blair Cassidy as the Chief Product Officer (CPO). Cassidy brings more than 19 years of digital product experience to Phocas, most recently serving as the CPO for SLI Systems. Cassidy will lead the company’s efforts in developing innovations that build upon Phocas’ data analytics solutions and its success helping customers better leverage their business data.
Smart Data Collective
OCTOBER 8, 2019
While sports analytics is hardly a new idea, how it is being used in hockey has changed dramatically. Coaches no longer have to wait for newspapers to print out statistics. Fans are not left to wonder how their favorite players are truly excelling. What has brought about this change? Big data. Big data has taken all forms of sports analytics by storm, but we are only now really beginning to see what it can do for hockey.
Agile Velocity
OCTOBER 9, 2019
In this workshop at Keep Austin Agile, David Hawks discussed the importance of being outcome vs. practice-driven and how that will lead to sustained impact and organizational agility. Attendees worked together to break down desired business outcomes into core capabilities to help them determine where their organization is and provide them with action items to focus on next.
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