Smart Data Collective

JANUARY 19, 2023

Are you looking for a way to reduce the cost of your development efforts? DevOps on the cloud could be the answer! DevOps is an increasingly popular approach that combines software development and operations, allowing developers and IT professionals to work together more efficiently. With DevOps on the cloud, businesses can take advantage of faster, more flexible computing environments without having to invest in expensive hardware and software.

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CIO

JANUARY 16, 2023

There’s no doubt that DevOps has helped many IT organizations achieve their goal of delivering applications and services faster and better than traditional software development processes. Unfortunately, while some IT leaders do a fine job of trumpeting DevOps’ benefits, their teams are headed in the wrong direction , embracing half-baked or completely wrong tools and practices.

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Crayon

JANUARY 19, 2023

Your sales team just won a competitive deal. It was a taxing evaluation: multiple demos, a trial period, extensive pricing conversations—the works. Until the account executive on your sales team got that long-awaited email, they really had no idea which solution the buyer would select.

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Chris Webb BI

JANUARY 15, 2023

In my last post I showed how, in many cases, you can avoid the “dynamic data sources” error with OData data sources by taking advantage of query folding. That’s not always possible though and in this post I’ll show you how you can use the Query option of the OData.Feed function to do so instead. At first glance the Query option of OData.Feed looks very much like the Query option on Web.Contents which, of course, can also be used to avoid the dynamic data sources error (se

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Smart Data Collective

JANUARY 16, 2023

Companies around the world are projected to spend over $300 billion on machine learning technology by 2030. There are a growing number of reasons that companies are investing in machine learning, but digital marketing is at the top of the list. SEO, in particular, relies more heavily on machine learning these days. More Companies Are Discovering the Benefits of Using Machine Learning for SEO A few years ago, we wrote an article pointing out that machine learning is rewriting the rules of SEO.

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mention

JANUARY 20, 2023

Cross-selling is a sales technique that enables a small business to boost its revenue by selling additional products or services to a prospective or existing customer. Cross-selling is often confused with upselling, a sales technique to get the customer to buy more expensive products through upgrades and add-ons. The image below illustrates the difference accurately.

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Aqute Intelligence

JANUARY 19, 2023

We have blogged before about competitive intelligence companies, but we did not discuss a related type of competitive intelligence provider: competitive intelligence software companies. Below is our current list of competitive intelligence software specialists. We have focused on companies that specifcally target competitive inelligence, rather than more general software including social media monitoring, press monitoring or business analytics, that also plays some role in competitive intelligen

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Smart Data Collective

JANUARY 15, 2023

Data visualization tools have become very useful for many businesses. Companies use data visualization for trend mapping, data contextualization and various forms of business optimization. Therefore, it should come as no surprise that global companies are projected to spend over $10.2 billion on data visualization technology within the next three years.

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CIO

JANUARY 18, 2023

CIOs supporting a hybrid mix of in-office and remote workers, and those who float between, need to implement new tools and strategies to get it right. But they will also need to change how they think about hybrid work, which analyst firm Forrester characterizes as “messy” even as it says 51% of organizations are moving in this direction. Hybrid work is often thought of in terms of location, according to a November Gartner report.

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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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mention

JANUARY 16, 2023

Are you looking to maximize your engagement rate and reach on Instagram in 2023? The timing of your posts can have a significant impact on how many people see your content on social media. But with so many variables to consider, it can be tough to know exactly when the best times to post are. That’s where our interactive tool comes in! Here at Mention, we have analyzed 110 million Instagram posts from 1 million Instagram users to help you find the most effective times to post on Instagram

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Zoominfo

JANUARY 18, 2023

Businesses have used professional contact listings to reach their markets for generations, dating back to the days when a phone book arrived at your doorstep with a thump. In our digital world, where millions of business contacts are changing by the minute, ZoomInfo simplifies that age-old process for businesspeople who have no time to lose. Simply put, we help people connect with each other to conduct business.

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FedSavvy

JANUARY 18, 2023

The sins of hubris and ignorance continue to plague bidders. While there are always ample opportunities to engage in poor decision making, let’s learn from these follies. This pair of sins focuses on “the Government is not your mother” and your past does not govern your future. Read on as we continue our series in win-loss trends. Remember, the U.S.

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CIO

JANUARY 16, 2023

Choice Hotels International’s early and big bet on the cloud has allowed it to glean the many benefits of its digital transformation and devote more energies to a key corporate value — sustainability, its CIO maintains. That is largely due to the 80-year-old hotel chain’s tight partnership with Amazon Web Services, says Choice CIO Brian Kirkland, who claims his company is enjoying the cost benefits and energy efficiencies of the cloud while exploiting many of 225 related services AWS offers such

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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 18, 2023

What product will you buy the next time you are in a supermarket — the one belonging to a respected brand or a no-name? If you don’t want to risk it or experiment, you’d rather go for Coke instead of Coke-like substitute, or Lays instead of chips you’ve never heard of. You’d often pay more for the products you know from TV advertisements. The way you think and how you feel about a product will often influence your buying decision.

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Intelligence Node

JANUARY 16, 2023

2022 was a landmark year for retail- making retail predictions for the year 2023 a primary focus for strategists and retailers entering the new year. Technology took the spotlight as. The post 5 Data-driven Retail Predictions for 2023 appeared first on Blog.

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FedSavvy

JANUARY 17, 2023

By Light Professional IT Services was founded in 2002 as a small family business and has since expanded to a large organization with more than 2,000 employees. By Light serves government customers in the Defense, Intelligence and Federal Health sectors and provides solutions in artificial intelligence (AI); cloud and managed services; communications; cyberspace operations; IT services; live, virtual constructive (LVC) training; modeling and simulation (M&S); and software services.

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CIO

JANUARY 17, 2023

The effects of such an unpredictable environment are profound, and no organization in any industry is immune. Looking across our client base, we expect to see varying degrees of impact as the turbulence continues. The common thread? In almost every case, there’s an increased need for data insight and technology-enabled agility to reaffirm technology’s position at the center of investment strategy in order to achieve organizational growth.

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Netbasequid

JANUARY 20, 2023

Customer support is everything, particularly when a brand needs help with the platform housing its consumer and market intelligence. A brand’s success with its business intelligence-gathering efforts depends on it! Fortunately, NetBase Quid® has a dedicated CX team that helps brands hit the ground running—and we’ll share a bit about this unique offering below.

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Alpha Sense BI

JANUARY 20, 2023

Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the world continues to face a global energy crisis that has forced international leaders to reexamine how they’re fueling their countries. Price increases in oil, gas, and electricity (further propelled by the Russia-Ukraine War) have led to nations shelling out historic sums of capital and even dipping into their own energy reserves to meet demands — a reality that, if perpetuated, will lead to financial collapse for a handful of global economies.

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TDAN BI

JANUARY 17, 2023

The sales industry has been witnessing the rise of AI and automation over many years and 2023 will not be an exception. To stand out in a competitive industry, businesses must invest in revamping their existing sales processes and crafting a modern sales strategy that aligns with the sales predictions for 2023. The role AI […].

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CIO

JANUARY 19, 2023

As companies shift their focus from the digital transformation of individual processes to the business outcomes enabled by a digitally transformed organisation, software engineering will become a core enterprise capability. To become a software-powered organisation, companies must first identify and address the concerns of its developers in areas such as developer experience, developer velocity and software security.

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Netbasequid

JANUARY 18, 2023

Will your business survive the next crisis? It’s an important question to ask given that 95% of companies expect to experience a crisis over the next two years. And it’s a position that Southwest Airlines finds itself in right now! That stat is from a 2019 PwC study – before the pandemic hit and 100% of companies suffered. But for many businesses, especially those with upwards of 5,000 employees, crises are an annual occurrence.

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Dataversity

JANUARY 19, 2023

An Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) can help businesses obtain the full value of their software investments, delivering speed, agility, and scalability, along with a host of other benefits. But the current approach to iPaaS is instead holding businesses back. As the pace of digital transformation has kicked into overdrive in recent years, IT teams and […] The post iPaaS Is Broken – Here’s How to Fix It appeared first on DATAVERSITY.

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Datapine Blog

JANUARY 18, 2023

Table of Contents 1) What Is The Report Definition? 2) Top 14 Types Of Reports 3) What Does A Report Look Like? Businesses have been producing reports since, forever. No matter what role or industry you work in, chances are that you have been faced with the task of generating a tedious report to show your progress or performance. While reporting has been a common practice for many decades, the business world keeps evolving and, with more competitive industries, the need to generate fast and accu

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CIO

JANUARY 19, 2023

Two events influenced Schneider Electric CIO Elizabeth Hackenson to distribute more decision-making authority throughout the company’s IT organization. “During the pandemic we needed to have people make as many local decisions as possible,” which she says was essential to keep operations moving across the 100 countries in which the company operates.

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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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Netbasequid

JANUARY 17, 2023

Social media reporting and analytics are the crown jewels of social media marketing. Robust social media reporting tools are a must to reveal all—and here are 15 of the best to help you along. What Are Social Media Analytics? A data stream is created as soon as you set up your social media accounts. However, in its raw form, this data could be helpful to your business goals.

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Data Hut

JANUARY 16, 2023

XPath is an essential tool for web scraping, allowing you to select specific elements from an HTML document for extraction. When writing XPaths for web scraping, it is essential to follow best practices to ensure that your XPaths are accurate, efficient, and robust. Here are some best practices for writing XPaths for web scraping, along with examples.

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Owler

JANUARY 19, 2023

Sales Intelligence is a go-to solution for sales professionals at all levels. Are you a sales professional looking to maximize your sales potential? Is your team in need of a tool to help them increase sales efficiency? If so, you might want to consider using sales intelligence. In this blog, we’ll discuss what sales intelligence is, the benefits of using it, and how you can use it to unlock your sales potential.

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