May, 2015

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Do you have an exit plan?

Competitive Insights

Many “Baby Boomers” are either in retirement or thinking about the subject. The considerations for those who own businesses are quite different from an employees. The article below explores some of the things that business owners need to think about as they approach retirement. Business owners usually want value for what they have created Assuming you and your business survived.

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6 Ways B2B Marketers Are Falling Short Today

Digital B2B Marketing

As I came back from the B2B Marketing Innovation Summit, put on by Demandbase, I couldn’t shake the feeling that we aren’t doing enough. That I’m not doing enough. Sure, marketing is changing faster today than it did yesterday. Blah blah blah. It doesn’t matter how fast marketing is changing! The real question is “how are you changing?

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BI Tools Can Help You Climb the Curve by Highlighting Trends

Elegant BI

If your company had the BI Tools to see what your competitors and consumers are doing, you should already know that digital inventory and data channels should be a priority! Click here: [link].

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Querying SSRS Report Definition Using T-SQL

BI Insight

Do you want to have all reports that used a table in their report definition? Are you looking for a report that has a desired parameter name? Have you written a new version of a SQL view or stored procedure and you need to modify all the reports working on top of the version of … Continue reading Querying SSRS Report Definition Using T-SQL. The post Querying SSRS Report Definition Using T-SQL appeared first on BI Insight.

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Are Your Impact Comms Resonating With Stakeholders?

Whether your organization is at the start of its sustainability and impact journey or years into it, many brands share a common concern: the uncertainty of whether they are sending stakeholders mixed messages. Creating content that speaks to your audience's “love language” can be a tricky dance. But, worry not! 3BL has put together tips to ensure that your content not only finds its rhythm but also resonates with your target audiences.

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The Winning Perspective: HR’s Future in a Millennial Essay

Better Buys

It’s no secret that Millennials have high expectations. This next generation workforce will cause change in HR, but remains a mystery in many ways. For our 2015 HR Scholarship Contest, we decided: Let’s find a young, bright, and creative voice to shed light on the future of HR. Although many predictions are borderline sci-fi, they’re actually not […].

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Widgets Plus: KPIs that Make the Business Thrive!

Elegant BI

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) are de rigueur these days, and that is a good thing for business. After all, it is hard to accurately plan for success when you are guessing at every turn. While small and large businesses alike are establishing KPIs, there is one thing that is not so de rigueur and that is establishing KPIs that are appropriate, objective, measurable and actionable!

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Self-Serve BI is a Growing Trend! Are You Staying Ahead of the Competition?

Elegant BI

Adoption of self-service BI is way ahead of other current trends such as collaborative BI(29%) and mobile BI(18%). 30% of BI users consider themselves power users! Click here: [link].

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Hold Your Dashboards in Your Pocket, Part 1: Use Your Predefined Dashboards on Your IOS Devices

BI Insight

Now it is time to take a step further and learn how to access our dashboards from our IOS or Windows devices. Microsoft designed a very good and handy app for IOS and Windows based tablets. At the moment the Windows app is only available for your laptop or on your Windows based tablet device. … Continue reading Hold Your Dashboards in Your Pocket, Part 1: Use Your Predefined Dashboards on Your IOS Devices.

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Build You First Dashboard in Microsoft Power BI Designer, Access Analytics Everywhere

BI Insight

This is the third article from Power BI Designer series. To fully understand this article you need to read my previous posts “Build Your First Report in Microsoft Power BI Designer Part 1, Basics” and “Build Your First Report in Microsoft Power Bi Designer Part 2, Make it More User Friendly” as well. In this … Continue reading Build You First Dashboard in Microsoft Power BI Designer, Access Analytics Everywhere.

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7 Strategies to Gather (and Actually Use) Competitive Intel from Employees

Leaders in competitive intel know that the employees who interact with customers and prospects every day hold valuable competitive insights that could help win sales. But they don’t have a good plan or system to gather, organize, and share these insights with the stakeholders who need them. In this eBook, we outline 7 strategies to make it easier to build and scale an employee sharing program that will drive competitive advantage.

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Batch Index Rebuild without Using Cursor

BI Insight

Today I came across a cube processing performance issue with one of our clients. So I started a step-by-step troubleshooting including optimising named queries. In some cases the named queries were actually querying some SQL views from the source data warehouse. After all, I created about 35 new indexes and I needed to justify that … Continue reading Batch Index Rebuild without Using Cursor.

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Team or Department Focus is NOT Fantasy. It Takes the Right Balanced Scorecard

Elegant BI

Team or Department Focus is NOT Fantasy. It Takes the Right Balanced Scorecard. I would hazard a guess that you believe in your organization. If you work for a large company, your team, department or division may represent only a small portion of the business bottom line but that piece is pretty important to you and to your team, and whether you think about it on a daily basis or not, it is pretty important to the company.

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Querying SSRS Report Definition Using T-SQL

BI Insight

Do you want to have all reports that used a table in their report definition? Are you looking for a report that has a desired parameter name? Have you written a new version of a SQL view or stored procedure and you need to modify all the reports working on top of the version of … Continue reading Querying SSRS Report Definition Using T-SQL. The post Querying SSRS Report Definition Using T-SQL appeared first on BI Insight.

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Don’t Drop Tally Solutions: SME Sales Teams Can Use BI to Integrate and Analyze Data and Leap Ahead

Elegant BI

Tally ERP is a popular software solution for small and medium sized (SME) organizations. As these businesses grow, the critical information contained within the Tally solution and other best-of-breed or ERP systems may decrease in value because of the restricted ‘silo’ environment in which that data resides. During the critical period of business expansion, it is more important than ever to have integrated, concise information with which to make product and service decisions, pricing

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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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BI Tools Help Accountants and Financial Pros to Better Serve Customers and Partners

Elegant BI

So, you’re an accountant, or financial professional ? You can analyze a spreadsheet with the best of them. You can credit and debit with and you explain any portfolio, chart of accounts, balance sheet or P&L to any client. You may think that Business Intelligence tools are not applicable to your role or function but think again! Consider the data with which you work.

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Hold Your Dashboards in Your Pocket, Part 1: Use Your Predefined Dashboards on Your IOS Devices

BI Insight

Now it is time to take a step further and learn how to access our dashboards from our IOS or Windows devices. Microsoft designed a very good and handy app for IOS and Windows based tablets. At the moment the Windows app is only available for your laptop or on your Windows based tablet device. … Continue reading Hold Your Dashboards in Your Pocket, Part 1: Use Your Predefined Dashboards on Your IOS Devices.

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Build You First Dashboard in Microsoft Power BI Designer, Access Analytics Everywhere

BI Insight

This is the third article from Power BI Designer series. To fully understand this article you need to read my previous posts “Build Your First Report in Microsoft Power BI Designer Part 1, Basics” and “Build Your First Report in Microsoft Power Bi Designer Part 2, Make it More User Friendly” as well. In this … Continue reading Build You First Dashboard in Microsoft Power BI Designer, Access Analytics Everywhere.

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Batch Index Rebuild without Using Cursor

BI Insight

Today I came across a cube processing performance issue with one of our clients. So I started a step-by-step troubleshooting including optimising named queries. In some cases the named queries were actually querying some SQL views from the source data warehouse. After all, I created about 35 new indexes and I needed to justify that … Continue reading Batch Index Rebuild without Using Cursor.

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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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Better Buys’ Office Equipment Editor’s Choice Awards – Summer 2015

Better Buys

Better Buys has announced its Summer 2015 Editor’s Choice Award winners for its office equipment devices. These winners represent the top manufacturers in the industry and were compiled from in-depth analysis of recently-released office equipment products. Each award recipient not only offered the greatest value and functionality but also exhibited unique features.