CIO

JANUARY 12, 2023

First Tech Credit Union is a San Jose-based financial institution with more than $16 billion in assets. As the eighth largest in the country, it primarily serves tech companies and their employees, but still has a lot of manual processes in place. “We’re very early in our automation journey,” says Mike Upton, the organization’s digital and technology officer.

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Crayon

JANUARY 12, 2023

Field intelligence is any kind of information you receive on a competitor that is not picked up automatically by your competitive intelligence tool or point person. This could be pricing information from a sales call, product information from a customer interview, or even email collateral your customer received from your competitor. This information is just as important as any publicly available intel, if not more important!

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Smart Data Collective

JANUARY 9, 2023

In today’s world, data is more widely available to businesses than ever before. Whether it’s data about customer demographics , product colors that tend to sell better, or which cold email scripts are the most effective, organizations have the power to utilize data to help them inform their decision-making process in a variety of ways. However, while the immense amount of data available to organizations unlocks new possibilities — it can also make cleaning organizing, interpreting, and analyzing

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Chris Webb BI

JANUARY 8, 2023

I’ve blogged about the “dynamic data sources” error and the Web.Contents function several times (most recently here ), main post here , but never about the fact that you can encounter the same error when working with OData data sources and the OData.Feed function. More importantly, while it seems like the solution to the problem is the same for both functions this is not the case!

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CIO

JANUARY 9, 2023

Three years ago, IT leaders were squarely focused on how to adopt fledgling AI techniques and approaches into their business models in service of digital transformations that included plans for shifting some workloads to the cloud. But then the pandemic hit, requiring a historic pivot that set some best-laid plans aside and accelerated others. Now that organizations have returned to a new (somewhat) normal, CIOs appear to be focused on getting back to basics — and untangling tech debt incurred i

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mention

JANUARY 11, 2023

LinkedIn is a powerful social networking tool that business professionals can use to grow their businesses. The goal of this post is to help business owners and professionals like you understand the impact of LinkedIn. It can build your online presence, drive attention to your brand, and even boost leads and sales. For example, did you know that 98% of salespersons with more than 5000 connections outperform their peers?

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Smart Data Collective

JANUARY 10, 2023

More small businesses are leveraging big data technology these days. One of the many reasons that they use big data is to improve their SEO. Data-driven SEO is going to be even more important as the economy continues to stagnate. Some economists argue that the yield curve is providing false recession warnings , but there is still a high risk that a recession will occur.

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CIO

JANUARY 11, 2023

Welcome to 2023. As the new year arrives, CIOs are facing a challenging to-do list as they strive to maximize IT productivity and efficiency in increasingly unpredictable times. As technology projects, budgets, and staffing grew over the past few years, the focus was on speed to market to maximize opportunity, says Troy Gibson, CIO services leader at business and IT advisory firm Centric Consulting.

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 12, 2023

Countries around the globe are implementing stricter regulations and larger fines in order to protect the rights of the individuals whose data is being collected. As a data privacy specialist in the UK, I often hear this question from customers and prospects: “How do we remain compliant as we expand into new regions?” It can be difficult to sift through privacy regulations and know which aspects are most relevant to your business.

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mention

JANUARY 13, 2023

Launching a new marketing campaign? Have you designed your landing page yet? No? Designing a custom landing page to support your marketing campaign message is crucial. If you don’t have one, all your hard work of strategizing and running your marketing campaign would have been in vain. But, why do I need a landing page when I already have a stunning homepage?

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Smart Data Collective

JANUARY 11, 2023

The Deep Web is a concept that few people understand. Even fewer people recognize the role that big data plays in shaping it. However, one thing is certain: advances in big data technology have played a huge role in driving changes in the deep web. It is a good idea for database developers, programmers, online businesses and other Internet technology professionals to learn about the impact that new developments in big data have had on both the surface web and deep web.

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CIO

JANUARY 12, 2023

“Land never deceives” is a common slogan of farmers around Africa. Many people go into farming entirely, or as a side endeavor, with a high certainty they’ll make money and produce more good for all. And when technology is added to the mix, opportunities multiply. Having the largest area of uncultivated arable land in the world, sub-Saharan Africa, with a young population—nearly 60% is under 25—and a wealth of natural resources, has unparalleled advantages that could double or even triple its cu

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Alpha Sense BI

JANUARY 13, 2023

Over the past decade, every major industry has found a way to wield the incredible power of artificial intelligence (AI). The post The Evolution of AI: Trends to Watch in 2023 appeared first on AlphaSense.

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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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mention

JANUARY 9, 2023

LinkedIn is one of the most complex social networks, but also the most solicited by Mention customers, many of them operating in B2B. With Maxime, our Product Manager, let’s look at the ways Mention can now help businesses obtain insights from the social network with 850 million professionals. Maxime van Frank, Product Manager. Hello Maxime, can you tell us about your job and your squad ?

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Smart Data Collective

JANUARY 11, 2023

Many businesses are taking advantage of big data to improve their marketing and financial management practices. Businesses spent over $14.2 billion on big data marketing in 2020 and this figure is likely to grow further in the years to come. Some of the case studies on the benefits of data-driven marketing are quite promising. One tourist company utilized data analytics to boost website conversions by 40%.

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CIO

JANUARY 13, 2023

Diversity and inclusion (D&I) have become necessary missions for most businesses. Research has long shown that diverse teams are more productive , more engaged, and the companies that create them are more profitable. And the murder of George Floyd — and the social unrest that followed — made it clear that taking a stand around social justice is necessary to recruitment, retention, and even the viability of your brand.

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Alpha Sense BI

JANUARY 9, 2023

At AlphaSense, our mission has always been to help the world’s leading companies and financial institutions make critical decisions with confidence and speed. And in the face of continued uncertainty and marketplace volatility like we saw in 2022, the ability to surface and track insights becomes even more crucial for businesses. As I reflect on all we’ve accomplished in the past year, I am, first and foremost, deeply grateful to our customers, our investors, our team, and our partners. 2022 was

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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

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WideNARROW

JANUARY 10, 2023

Gartner and Forrester just released their new CI/MI tool reports and we are in both! To read the full reports click on the links below (to read the respective reports you need to be a Gartner customer or you need to be a Forrester customer/buy the report individually) Gartner " Market Guide for Competitive and Market Intelligence Tools For Technology and Service Providers " Forrester " The Market And Competitive Intelligence Platform Landscape, Q4 2022 ".

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Smart Data Collective

JANUARY 9, 2023

For corporations, creating a reliable and easy-to-use corporate database is a vital part of developing and maintaining a smoothly-running operation. From keeping customer information private to ensuring that financial data is safe and secure, corporate databases can play an essential role in a corporation’s ability to succeed. Unfortunately, building a corporate database from scratch can be tricky if you don’t know where to start.

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CIO

JANUARY 13, 2023

By John Davis, Retired U.S. Army Major General and Vice President and Federal Chief Security Officer for Palo Alto Networks What critical innovations can change the balance in cybersecurity, providing those of us responsible for defending our organizations with more capabilities against those who would do us harm? This is not just a theoretical exercise.

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Dataversity

JANUARY 12, 2023

Open-source technologies will become even more prominent within enterprises’ data architecture over the coming year, driven by the stark budgetary advantages combined with some of the newest enterprise-friendly capabilities added to several solutions. Here are three predictions for the open-source data infrastructure space in 2023: 1. Economic headwinds will make open-source data technologies even more attractive to […].

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Alpha Sense BI

JANUARY 12, 2023

There’s never a right time to be outpaced by competitors, but an economic downturn and looming recession is an especially. The post Smart Synonyms and the Death of CTRL+F appeared first on AlphaSense.

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IBI

JANUARY 12, 2023

Reading Time: 3 minutes If DevOps’ mission is to increase the speed and quality of application and service delivery, is it possible for DevOps practitioners to get the benefit now from a new, disruptive artificial intelligence—ChatGPT? The answer is a qualified “yes.” In this blog, you’ll discover how ChatGPT can be used to automate technical documentation creation and learn how other technologies can support DevOps in complex enterprise environments—the way TIBCO customer Euler Hermes has done.

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CIO

JANUARY 10, 2023

Hiring tech talent in 2023 means navigating an uncertain economy, the effects of widespread tech industry layoffs, and candidates who want to work for a company with a mission and workplace culture that align with their values, including diversity, equity, and inclusion. IT leaders say the best approach is to focus on adaptability. Firms that want to innovate and grow while headcounts are in flux are looking to upskill talent from within , promote their firm’s strengths to prospective candidates

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GrowbyData

JANUARY 13, 2023

According to Adobe Analytics , the last ten days of November, including Thanksgiving ($5 billion), Black Friday ($9 billion), and Cyber Monday ($11 billion), generated almost $50 billion in revenue. Rising inflation may have limited shoppers’ spending. However, consumers were determined not to let anything get in their way during this holiday spirit.

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Speaker: Marius Moscovici, CEO Metric Insights & Mike Smitheman, VP Metric Insights

While the proper governance of data is clearly critical to the success of any business intelligence organization, focusing on data governance alone is a huge mistake. Organizations continually fail to generate ROI on their governance initiatives because they are too narrow in scope. To be effective, Business Intelligence (BI) governance must cover both data and visualizations.

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Data Hut

JANUARY 7, 2023

The Indian smartwatch market was valued at $1.8 billion in 2022 and is expected to grow more than fourfold by 2028. In the last five years, the Indian smartwatch market has grown from zero to Rs. 40.8 billion , and is expected to continue growing in the coming years. This presents a great opportunity for new brands to establish themselves in this burgeoning market and for existing brands to expand their reach and grow revenue.

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SpyFu

JANUARY 13, 2023

Competitive research plays a major role in SEO improvement, so we looked for ways to deliver more valuable results. If you are searching your competitors, you're ultimately going to compare their keyword rankings to your own. So what if we rolled that into the tool? That would put the comparisons right there on the page. That's exactly what we did for the SEO Keywords tool.

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CIO

JANUARY 9, 2023

Imagine an airport that uses computer vision to track errant luggage in real time, or a commercial kitchen able to detect refrigeration conditions and prevent spoilage. Imagine an amusement park outfitting its rides with sensors that can talk directly to operations for upgraded safety and better guest experiences. Imagine a factory or a chain of retailers reducing energy and cutting equipment downtime.

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