Smart Data Collective
SEPTEMBER 25, 2019
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.
ElegantJ BI
SEPTEMBER 27, 2019
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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Timo Elliott
SEPTEMBER 25, 2019
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].
Tim Mitchell
SEPTEMBER 23, 2019
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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Smart Data Collective
SEPTEMBER 26, 2019
Traditionally, the world of investing was bland and exclusive. Investment vehicles were not very different from one another and minimum capital requirements meant that even this was reserved for the few who had the means. Most ordinary people had to settle for a savings account at their local bank while some even opted to simply put their savings under their mattress.
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Analyst Catalyst Blog
SEPTEMBER 26, 2019
The Analyst Agency
SEPTEMBER 24, 2019
Smart SOPs and How to Write Them By Steven Czyrny Do you understand your business processes? If you find that your management team or employees are confused about their role in projects, or tasks remain unfinished, it’s time to consider your standard operating procedures. If you have never put procedures in place, you are wasting […]. The post Smart SOPs: Why Your Business Needs Standard Operating Procedures and How to Write Them appeared first on The Analyst Agency.
Smart Data Collective
SEPTEMBER 26, 2019
The big data market is expected to be worth $189 billion by the end of this year. This is over a 50% increase in just four years. A number of factors are driving growth in big data. Demand for big data is part of the reason for the growth, but the fact that big data technology is evolving is another. New software is making big data more viable than ever.
ElegantJ BI
SEPTEMBER 27, 2019
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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Phocas
SEPTEMBER 24, 2019
My fascination with the psychology of decision-making continues. My latest sage is Daniel Kahneman , a leading psychologist and winner of the Nobel Prize in economics for prospect theory. Kahneman has dedicated his life to researching human judgement – especially under uncertainty and whether people are susceptible to flawed intuition. His book, Thinking, fast and slow summarizes much of his research.
Smart Data Collective
SEPTEMBER 24, 2019
Big data is changing the world in a number of ways. Companies rely on data to deliver efficient services, but they also have to worry about cybersecurity risks. Towards Data Science provided a very detailed guide on the relevance of machine learning to hackers. Hackers use a number of different big data tools to orchestrate more severe attacks. As big data leads to new cybersecurity risks , a growing number of managers are falling victim.
ElegantJ BI
SEPTEMBER 26, 2019
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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Data Pine
SEPTEMBER 25, 2019
In the Age of Information, data equals power. By harnessing the power of your business’s most valuable digital insights, you will enhance decision-making, improve internal communication, and accelerate your success. But with so much information and such little time in the day, how do you get the most from your data? Data is most effective when it’s visual, easy to analyze, and accessible to everyone in the organization.
Phocas
SEPTEMBER 27, 2019
“We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge” according to best selling author, John Naisbitt. Today’s businesses have the ability to collect an extraordinary amount of information on everything from customer buying patterns and feedback to supply chain management and marketing efforts. Are you drawing value from your data?
Smart Data Collective
SEPTEMBER 26, 2019
There are many ways that big data is being utilized in marketing. We have talked extensively about the use of big data in digital marketing, but it can very useful in traditional marketing strategies as well. One study from Forbes found that 55% of companies have used big data analytics. However, there are other big data applications that they have overlooked.
ElegantJ BI
SEPTEMBER 26, 2019
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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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
Agile Velocity
SEPTEMBER 24, 2019
In a recent discussion with a business leader, I asked a simple question: “Why are you considering an Agile transformation?” . “We just want to get better,” she replied. Awkward silence. . I understood what she meant. We all want to get better. But that’s not a great reason to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on full-scale organizational change.
Actian
SEPTEMBER 26, 2019
Looking around at Strata this morning I observe that the folks here fall into three broad categories: The t-shirt wearing techie who proudly wears their favorite logo’ed t-shirt e.g. “Data is the New Bacon” and who is here to reassure themselves that there isn’t much that they don’t know about what is happening in the data ecosystem.
Smart Data Collective
SEPTEMBER 24, 2019
Big data is playing a more essential role in website administration than ever before. TechRepublic points out that it is important for content management. However, it is also ideal for user experience optimization, marketing and much more. The market for big data is growing 41% over the next few years. This is largely due to the need for big data in website management and marketing, as well as advances in AI.
ElegantJ BI
SEPTEMBER 26, 2019
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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Agile Velocity
SEPTEMBER 24, 2019
In a recent discussion with a business leader, I asked a simple question: “Why are you considering an Agile transformation?” . “We just want to get better,” she replied. Awkward silence. . I understand what she meant. We all want to get better. But that’s not a great reason to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on full-scale organizational change.
Phocas
SEPTEMBER 22, 2019
LSC is a thriving 93-year-old security hardware distributor for the locksmith industry. To manage the 20,000 lines of stock and serve customers well, the owners made a strategic decision to harness business data and turn it into useful information. Data engineer, Gordon Howell explains “having those higher facts to back up what we're doing and being agile to use the on-hand data does help us make proper decisions.”.
Smart Data Collective
SEPTEMBER 24, 2019
Artificial intelligence has been the basis of robotics for several decades. However, early AI technology was not well-suited for solving the countless challenges robots needed to solve. Robots were often programmed with simple algorithms that were made in BASIC or Cobol. They couldn’t adapt, unless the programmers developed more sophisticated artificial intelligence programs to manage them.
Actian
SEPTEMBER 26, 2019
Looking around at Strata this morning I observe that the folks here fall into three broad categories: The t-shirt wearing techie who proudly wears their favorite logo’ed t-shirt e.g. “Data is the New Bacon” and who is here to reassure themselves that there isn’t much that they don’t know about what is happening in the data ecosystem.
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