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Big Data’s Role In Childbirth And Maternal Death In The US

Smart Data Collective

Maternal mortality rates in the United States jumped over 25% between 2000 and 2013. The CDC uses data to better understand why the United States has the highest maternal death rates in the developed world. Big data allows researchers to dig deeper into the issue to better understand what’s occurring that’s leading to increased deaths for mothers. Understaffed hospitals and medical errors are causing most of the deaths.

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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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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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Augmented Data Preparation and Self-Service ETL!

ElegantJ BI

What is Self Service Data Preparation? Data prep can slow down analytics and cause delays. Self-service data preparation (when done right) can enable business users to leverage sophisticated, easy-to-use tools for self-serve ETL. Data extraction, transformation and loading (otherwise known as ETL) can be time-consuming and requires professional skills but self-service ETL will walk business users through an augmented data preparation process and take the complicated, confusing steps out of the p

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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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Types Of eCommerce Data You Should Note During Data Migration

Smart Data Collective

Big data is playing a big role in the commerce industry. Many experts believe it will be even more important in 2019. Big data is partially responsible for the 15% increase in ecommerce sales in 2018. Changing your data from one website or store to another is something that seems like a lot of work. However, if you pay attention to the data and other specifics when changing, you shouldn’t have any issues switching from one platform to another.

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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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Augmented Data Preparation and Self-Service ETL!

ElegantJ BI

What is Self Service Data Preparation? Data prep can slow down analytics and cause delays. Self-service data preparation (when done right) can enable business users to leverage sophisticated, easy-to-use tools for self-serve ETL. Data extraction, transformation and loading (otherwise known as ETL) can be time-consuming and requires professional skills but self-service ETL will walk business users through an augmented data preparation process and take the complicated, confusing steps out of the p

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SSIS Lookup Cache Modes

Tim Mitchell

In SQL Server Integration Services, the lookup component is one of the most frequently used tools for data validation and completion. The lookup component is provided as a means to virtually join one set of data to another to validate and/or retrieve missing values. Properly configured, it is reliable and reasonably fast. To get the most out of this component, The post SSIS Lookup Cache Modes appeared first on Tim Mitchell.

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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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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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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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Augmented Data Preparation and Self-Service ETL!

ElegantJ BI

What is Self Service Data Preparation? Data prep can slow down analytics and cause delays. Self-service data preparation (when done right) can enable business users to leverage sophisticated, easy-to-use tools for self-serve ETL. Data extraction, transformation and loading (otherwise known as ETL) can be time-consuming and requires professional skills but self-service ETL will walk business users through an augmented data preparation process and take the complicated, confusing steps out of the p

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Using Raw Files in SSIS

Tim Mitchell

SQL Server Integration Services is well designed for retrieving and processing data on the fly, directly in the data flow pipeline. However, there are circumstances that occasionally require the persistence of result sets in SSIS for use during package execution. For these such cases, one option is to use SSIS raw files. The raw file in SSIS is a special.

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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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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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Why Every Agile Team Needs a Business?Analyst | Analyst Catalyst Blog

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SSIS Precedence Constraints

Tim Mitchell

In the control flow for SQL Server Integration Services, the “lines” we commonly use to connect tasks to each other are actually smart controls. These SSIS precedence constraints allow the ETL developer to customize the program flow from one task to another. The most common use of precedence constraints is to simply connect two tasks with the default constraint, which.

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Which participant recruitment method should I use for user research?

Userzoom

Technically there are an infinite number of ways you could attempt to recruit participants for your user research. But instead of putting a QR code on confetti and unleashing it at a stadium, or renting a plane to fly along the beach with a URL floating behind it, how about we take a look at the most common and effective methods for participant recruiting, as well as the pros and cons of each.

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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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Empowering Development Teams

Roman Pichler

Show People that You Care. Empowering development teams starts with taking a sincere interest in the individuals, attentively listening to their ideas and concerns, and empathising with them. This shows that you care and value people’s perspective; it builds trust; and it gives the team members the confidence to step up and take ownership. If people don’t feel safe, they may shy away from accepting additional authority and only do what their job description requires.

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Taking Smarter Risks to Monetize Your Data

Sisense

Blog. For modern organizations, data is the ultimate building block. High profile companies are using data to build profitable new products, new lines of business, even entirely new industries. It’s the starting point and the finish line for every new business creation. In an age where every company is making moves to be more data-driven, those that figure out how to efficiently monetize their data insights will be the biggest winners.

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Phocas BI tool proves its value for manufacturers, wholesalers

Phocas

The following article is reproduced from TechTarget , a respected tech news website which provides independent content and analysis. The article highlights how Phocas has built trust and a strong reputation with leaders and IT managers in manufacturing, wholesale and retail.

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SoundNotes Live at Agile 2019: Day Four

Leading Agile

In the latest batch of videos from SoundNotes Live at Agile 2019, we sat down with eight more guests to discuss their latest projects, thoughts on Agile, and the talks they gave at the conference. Some of the guests included were our very own Heidi Musser who sat down to talk about diversity and inclusion in Agile, as well as people like Diana Larsen and Olaf Lewitz.

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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 26 Technologies are Driving Major Change in Sales and Marketing Organizations Worldwide

Bintelligence

PRESS RELEASE These 26 Technologies are Driving Major Change in Sales and Marketing Organizations Worldwide Business Intelligence Group Announces the Winners of the Inaugural Sales and Marketing Technology Awards. PHILADELPHIA, September 4, 2019—Today, the Business Intelligence Group announced the winners in the 2019 Sales and Marketing Technology Awards program, also known as “The Sammys”.

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GlowTouch to Attend Women’s Business Enterprise Strategic Conference in Tucson, AZ in September

GlowTouch

GlowTouch to Attend Women’s Business Enterprise Strategic Conference in Tucson, AZ in September. September 4, 2019 (Louisville, KY) – Executive leadership from GlowTouch, a leading provider of contact center, business processing (BPO), and technology outsourcing solutions, will attend the Women’s Business Enterprise Council (WBEC) West Conference in Tucson, AZ this month to meet representatives from major corporations actively seeking to conduct business with certified Women Business Enter

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How real-time dashboards keep managers on target

Phocas

An analytics dashboard is an essential business tool that provides insight into the performance of numerous business processes. Every department of a company has specific performance metrics that can be monitored to ensure the company is operating at peak performance. Integrating these metrics into a dashboard allows users to spot a problem quickly so you can get right back on track.

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Fire and Forget? Strategic Planning is Broken

Leading Agile

At the Atlanta Scrum meetup, our Chief Methodologist, Dennis Stevens, recently delivered his talk entitled: Assumptions & Ambiguity Be Damned. Over the course of his presentation, he talked about the current state of strategic planning… Spoiler Alert: it’s broken. He also covered some of the challenges large organizations are facing when planning out work, and the things that you can do to make it better.

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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.