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5 Industries That Are Being Revolutionized By Big Data

Smart Data Collective

Big data is completely transforming the way we live and the way companies conduct business. Pretty much every industry you can think of uses some form of big data technology to help optimize their business. In this article, we reveal five industries which have been reshaped by big data technology. 1. Retail. IBM wrote an excellent report about the use of big data in the retail sector.

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How to Talk to CXOs About Training | Simplilearn

Simplilearn

Employee training is no longer an option in today’s evolving digital landscape. It’s important for teams to gain the latest skills and stay updated to accomplish your company’s objectives—but it often gets pushback from upper management.

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Meet the researchers! Rose Leitner & Becky Wright, Product User Experience Research

Userzoom

Welcome to a brand new series where we introduce you to the people behind UserZoom. You may assume that we’re either just a fully automated service floating around in the cloud, or that our sole employee is a giant orange owl. But no, actual people work here, and they not only ensure that our customers are getting the very best out of our user research software and services, but that the platform itself is as easy-to-use as possible.

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Influencing Decision Makers with Business Data Analytics

Analyst Catalyst Blog

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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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Big Data Insights Drive Surge In Digital Marketing ROI

Smart Data Collective

Big data is giving savvy brands a significant edge in the market. They are able to use analytics and other data insights to bolster customer service, reduce marginal operating costs and scale production. One of the biggest benefits of big data is in the arena of digital marketing. Dataconomy wrote a post about the value of big data in digital marketing.

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Getting Stakeholders to Attend Your Sprint Review w/ Sara McClintock

Leading Agile

In this week’s episode of SoundNotes, LeadingAgile Senior Consultant Sara McClintock and Dave take on two topics submitted by students from our CSM and CSPO classes: 1. What can I do in an organization to grow and promote our Sprint Reviews? 2. Stakeholder demand for timelines or deadlines being an impediment for the team. Sara and Dave discuss different approaches to helping leadership understand the importance of Sprint Reviews and why their participation is so necessary for delivering a succe

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Making Friends with the Marketing Team | Analyst Catalyst Blog | IIBA

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Big Data Leads To An Impressive Array of Chatbots In Customer Service

Smart Data Collective

Big data is changing the direction of customer service. Machine learning tools have led to the development of chatbots. They rely on big data to better serve customers. Namee Jani wrote a fascinating article on chatbots and data analytics last year. She said they are the next big thing in business optimization in her article on Towards Data Science.

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Whitepaper: Why Blended Learning Is the Fastest Way to Close Digital Skill Gaps | Simplilearn

Simplilearn

While instructor-led training (off-site or on-premises) offers mentorship and assistance, online training programs offer the flexibility to learn anytime and anywhere. How do you blend the best of both training methods and offer a holistic learning experience for your employees? With compelling research from training experts, this white paper revea.

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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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Reference Architecture vs. Reference Implementation

Leading Agile

In this clip from TriAgile 2019, Mike Cottmeyer is explaining the difference between Reference Architecture and Reference Implementation and why understanding the base patterns of Agility are so important to the success of your Agile Transformation. Reference Architecture vs. Reference Implementation Transcript. Does anybody in the room believe that you’re supposed to take everything in the SAFe guide and to deploy it in your organization verbatim?

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It’s All About Agility Not Agile Methodologies! | Analyst Catalyst Blog | IIBA

Analyst Catalyst Blog

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Leveraging The Cost-Cutting Benefits Of Cloud Accounting

Smart Data Collective

CPA Practice Advisor wrote a fascinating article on the applicability of big data in the accounting field. The article showed that the increasing supply of data is making it easier for companies to handle many core accounting functions. Big data is playing an important role in everything from auditing to custom service. There are a lot of benefits of using big data to simplify the accounting process.

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Whitepaper: Measuring Training Effectiveness | Simplilearn

Simplilearn

Learn how to measure employee learning in ways that can improve results and ROI with this ebook. It explains the importance of measuring the effectiveness of the training you offer to make sure you’re getting the outcomes you want and the challenges to doing so. Read More. 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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Five benefits of data analytics for your sales branches

Phocas

Your branches are the frontline of your business, leading the charge when it comes to customer interaction and building customer loyalty. At times, it may seem like they’re on an island, isolated from the rest of your company, operating independently or waiting for instructions on how to drive sales and profitability.

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5 Data Visualization Techniques When Designing for Mobile

Sisense

It’s hard to think about life before cell phones. They function as wallets, music players, newspapers, work tools, GPS systems, and much more. Let’s not forget the instant gratification people expect from their phones. Today we want everything, instantly, in the palm of our hands. That includes insights. If you take the amount of data generated on a daily basis, add to it the move to mobile, and combine that with the need for instant gratification…data visualization for mobile has a lot of

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Here’s How Blockchain Can Change Bancassurance

Smart Data Collective

Whether it is identity authentication, increasing the speed of cross-border payments , supply chain optimization or transportation logistics, blockchain technology has been providing solutions to a variety of industries. Blockchain can also become the answer to the problems encountered by bancassurance. The Issues Bancassurance Faces Now, and How Blockchain Can Help.

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Whitepaper: How to Improve Your Company’s Training Completion Rates | Simplilearn

Simplilearn

If you’re offering much-needed training to your employees, but they’re not seeing that training through, are you making a difference? Probably not. Learn how to make sure employees finish the training they’re assigned with the useful advice in this ebook. Read More. Read More.

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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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Are you a data-driven CFO?

Phocas

Chief Financial Officers (CFO) are the stewards of a company’s financial well-being. As companies have realized that shrewd financial management is necessary for sound decision-making, the CFO has proven to be crucial to the growth and success of a company. The role of the CFO has evolved across every aspect of the business which is especially true as companies are becoming more data-driven.

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Data Engineer vs Data Scientist: What’s the Right Fit for Your Company?

Sisense

Let’s paint a happy picture. Things are progressing nicely at your organization. You’ve got a strong bank of existing customers whose business you can grow. You’ve got a healthy level of interest from the visitors to your website, enquiries, and trials. You’re regularly finding great leads and you’ve got some good ideas for more lead generation. And you’re consolidating your relationships with your partners, potential new partners, your channels, suppliers, and so forth.

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“Why Transformations Get Stuck” Presented at Global Scrum Gathering Austin 2019

Agile Velocity

Why Transformations Get Stuck – Global Scrum Gathering 2019 from Agile Velocity. In this world of exponentially increasing market disruption, it is more imperative than ever for organizations to not only achieve operational agility (efficiency, speed, etc.), but also organizational agility (speed to respond to market change). In this session at Global Scrum Gathering 2019, David Hawks showed attendees how leaders can guide their organization’s past top Agile transformation impediment

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Can an Agile, Efficient Data Project Exist?

Domo

Agility is a term I hear often—agile processes, agile technology—but what about agile business intelligence? Recently, at the CIO Edge event, I spoke with a number of leading Australian CIOs and they all shared one thing in common: the need for agility, and more importantly, the value of quickly getting the right information, to the right person, so they can make informed decisions.

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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 to compare multiple data streams: actual sales v budget v stretch budget

Phocas

Comparison of sales information against targets has many benefits such as allowing individuals to be more strategic, more motivated and more in control of their actions. This video contained in the Phocas online library shows you how to compare multiple data sources to see sales performance against budget and stretch budget.

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Whimsical…lotus?

Actian

Ladies of Actian, Palo Alto get together for a Paint Nite. When I received the offer to join the Actian family as the People Programs Manager back in April, I was elated! Through my interviews, one thing that really stood out to me was the friendly, inviting culture – which would make my new role even more exciting. As with any big change, it is not to say I didn’t have the typical jitters associated with joining a new company: will I fit in, will the role be what I expect, will my ideas be well

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“Be The Change: Transform Your Organization Through Servant Leadership” Presented at Global Scrum Gathering Austin 2019

Agile Velocity

Be The Change: Transform Your Organization Through Servant Leadership – Global Scrum Gathering 2019 from Agile Velocity. “Revolutionary Ideas do not change institutions. People change them.” – Robert K. Greenleaf. People over Process is the very first value in the Agile Manifesto. So why do we often begin our transformations focused on processes?

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How Real-Time Analytics Can Help Assess ROI Of Toll-Free Call Support

Smart Data Collective

The telecom industry is undergoing some major changes, due to advances in big data. Companies that rely heavily on telephone services should recognize this trend and use big data to get the most value from their services. One way that big data can be especially helpful is by monitoring the ROI of toll-free services. Real-time analytics sheds some insights into this, which helps businesses decide whether it is worth the investment.

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The Complete People Management Toolkit

From welcoming new team members to tough termination decisions, each employment lifecycle phase requires a balance of knowledge, empathy & legal diligence.