CIO

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Today’s CIOs need to be more than strategic, they should be visionaries, too. With that in mind, many are already looking ahead and planning for what they, their IT departments, and their organizations as a whole will need in 2025. Todd Cassidy, managing vice president and CIO of associate experience at Capital One, is in that camp. “We are constantly looking ahead to make sure we are ready for what’s next,” says Cassidy, who is also the company’s chief of staff for technology.

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Crayon

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Just in time to kickoff Q4 — a brand new episode of Into the Fray: The Competitive Intelligence Podcast has arrived!

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Smart Data Collective

OCTOBER 1, 2022

We have previously talked about ways that big data is changing the world of sports. Formula 1 teams are among those most affected. Ever since the Oakland A’s switched their recruitment policy from a players’ running speed and strength to a more sophisticated and nuanced look at the on-base slugging percentage, the world of sports has become more and more accustomed to utilizing sports analytics in their team-building.

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Chris Webb BI

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Something I do all the time when performance tuning Power BI is use SQL Server Profiler to monitor query and refresh activity. There’s a handy external tool that lets you open up Profiler with a connection to Power BI Desktop; if you’re using Power BI Premium you can also connect Profiler up to a published dataset using the XMLA Endpoint.

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CIO

OCTOBER 6, 2022

As an IT leader, being able to foster innovation not only benefits the IT itself, with greater efficiency, effectiveness and value, but the organization it serves and you personally, as it illustrates your ability to be an internal agent of change, a true business partner, and an asset at the strategy table. 1. Define and articulate your definition of IT innovation.

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Smart Data Collective

OCTOBER 3, 2022

The market for cloud technology is growing remarkably. One study shows spending on cloud services doubled between 2017 and 2020 from $30 billion to $60 billion. Cloud technology is changing the face of the modern workplace. More companies than ever are leveraging the cloud to boost productivity, improve customer service strategies and streamline the research and development process.

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Dataversity

OCTOBER 2, 2022

AI models have been proven to enhance critical processes that influence bottom lines, from predicting and preventing churn to detecting instances of fraud. But AI has also made headlines for producing harmful business and societal results, such as discriminating against individuals based on race or gender.

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CIO

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Over the past 184 years, The Procter & Gamble Co. (P&G) has grown to become one of the world’s largest consumer goods manufacturers, with worldwide revenue of more than $76 billion in 2021 and more than 100,000 employees. Its brands are household names, including Charmin, Crest, Dawn, Febreze, Gillette, Olay, Pampers, and Tide. In summer 2022, P&G sealed a multiyear partnership with Microsoft to transform P&G’s digital manufacturing platform.

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mention

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Metaverse, a concept that Meta (ex-Facebook) created hype about in 2021, has attracted a humongous amount of attention. Companies from all over the world, whether big or small, are trying to explore opportunities to onboard this technology to keep up with the cutthroat competition in their respective industries. However, Metaverse is not the only universe that the world is familiar with today.

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Smart Data Collective

OCTOBER 5, 2022

From creating world-famous games like Tertis to being recognized by Google and Facebook with some of the most prestigious programmer awards, Russian developers have come a long way to becoming global leaders in programming. The country is known for its large pool of skilled and expert programmers who are capable of accomplishing the most challenging tasks.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Recently, the term “quiet quitting” has become a point of discussion across the business world, as workers everywhere embrace the idea of “acting their wage” — doing only as much as their job requires. It’s mind-boggling to think that before the pandemic, if a manager told a team member they were “coasting,” that person would have likely been embarrassed.

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CIO

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Data-driven supply chains continues to be a hot topic, given what’s happened over the last couple of years with the pandemic, lockdowns, transportation woes, container ships held outside ports, war in Ukraine and other issues wreaking havoc. Problems caused by these events are ongoing, but if addressed from a proactive rather than reactive standpoint, there are ways to mitigate their detrimental impact, especially when the analytics and processes become clear.

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mention

OCTOBER 7, 2022

We are living in an interesting time, where the availability of smartphones, high-speed internet, digital marketing channels, and various eCommerce platforms have made it easy for anyone to start their own business. Shopify is among such widely popular platforms, powering more than a million small to large-sized enterprises worldwide. It enables entrepreneurs to leverage its capabilities to scale their businesses in no time.

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Intelligence Node

OCTOBER 3, 2022

This year marks a special year for Intelligence Node as we celebrate our 10th anniversary. I take this opportunity to thank you for your continuous commitment to Intelligence Node, its. The post A Message from the CEO on Intelligence Node’s 10th Anniversary appeared first on Blog.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 3, 2022

You’ve probably seen questionable social media accounts trolling the comment section of your personal feed, or heard of scammers attempting to make a buck through fake Facebook or Instagram profiles. But recently, there’s been attention on a new frontier of fake social media accounts — business profiles on LinkedIn. The CEO of cryptocurrency exchange Binance tweeted that of the 7,000-plus LinkedIn profiles claiming to be Binance employees, only about 50 actually work there.

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CIO

OCTOBER 5, 2022

As transformational IT has increasingly become a business imperative, implementation partners have been looking to strengthen their value proposition for their customers. To differentiate themselves from transactional service providers, the more proactive partners are evolving their offerings and approaches, thereby becoming more strategic than they had been in the past.

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CXL

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Since 2015, clothing brand ASOS has grown revenue by an average of 22% year over year. Not for lack of competition, but as the result of a carefully designed ecommerce marketing strategy. This is what drives growth for online stores like ASOS, despite existing in a saturated market. In this article, you’ll learn how to build a powerful ecommerce marketing strategy using customer research and messaging development, and how to use it to determine which marketing tactics will best reach your target

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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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Netbasequid

OCTOBER 3, 2022

It’s not possible to eliminate bias in market research, not entirely. Humans being central to the process means that subjectivity is also central to the process. But there are ways to lessen it! Subjectivity is not necessarily a bad thing. You want people – both researchers and respondents – to express their personality. The researcher can innovate the process and respondents can more fully reveal themselves.

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Domo

OCTOBER 4, 2022

One of the big challenges today with data is that we just have too much of it. While we may be able to access that data, it can be hard to easily find the data that is relevant. Domo helps solve part of this problem by bringing data at scale into a single platform. However, sometimes we need to make data even more easily accessible to a basic user.

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CIO

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Many view today’s supply chains as true marvels of modern existence — push a button and a desired object is delivered to one’s doorstep. Others see modern supply chains disrupting local economies and damaging the environment. Massively complex, interdependent, and subject to disruptions, supply chains were, for the most part just a few years ago, the purview of midlevel executives operating out of sight of newsrooms and boardrooms.

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Dataversity

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Detailed planning and thoughtful consideration are critical for IT leaders moving their unstructured data to a new platform, whether it be on-premises or in the cloud. If they aren’t cautious, enterprises may encounter cost overruns, project delays, and data risk. Migrating snapshots from one network-attached storage (NAS) to another ranks high on the list of […].

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Netbasequid

OCTOBER 7, 2022

When it comes to brand perception, many industries make the mistake of discounting one dataset that’s incredibly simple to find and monitor online – employee reviews. This intel offers extensive insight about your company to potential customers, patients, investors, new hires, and competitors. And you can be certain that what they find in these reviews impacts their decisions when it comes time to buy, engage, invest, work for, and compete with you.

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CXL

OCTOBER 7, 2022

When should you use bandit tests, and when is A/B/n testing best? Though there are some strong proponents (and opponents) of bandit testing, there are certain use cases where bandit testing may be optimal. Question is, when? First, let’s dive into bandit testing and talk a bit about the history of the N-armed bandit problem. Table of contents What is the multi-armed bandit problem?

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CIO

OCTOBER 4, 2022

By Bryan Kirschner, Vice President, Strategy at DataStax. From delightful consumer experiences to attacking fuel costs and carbon emissions in the global supply chain, real-time data and machine learning (ML) work together to power apps that change industries. New research co-authored by Marco Iansiti, the co-founder of the Digital Initiative at Harvard Business School, sheds further light on how a data platform with robust real-time capabilities contribute to delivering competitive, ML-driven e

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Dataversity

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The rise of data lakes and adjacent patterns such as the data lakehouse has given data teams increased agility and the ability to leverage major amounts of data. However, this ability comes with potential consequences. Constantly evolving data privacy legislation and the impact of major cybersecurity breaches has led to the call for responsible data […].

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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

OCTOBER 1, 2022

During the pandemic, switching to virtual care became necessary and convenient, but this shift may be transforming again in some countries around the world. And it’s essential for providers to stay on trend and aligned with consumer needs. Let’s see how that looks! Understanding how consumers feel about virtual healthcare is crucial to providers’ strategic planning as we wrap up 2022.

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Infegy

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Veteran and LGBTQ communities lead the conversation on suicide prevention. Over a hundred month-long observances are marked in September: National Save Your Photos Month, National Children’s Good Manners Month, National Bourbon Heritage Month, and International Self-Awareness month are a few of the more obscure commemorations.

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CIO

OCTOBER 5, 2022

To Guy Hadari, CIO of Biogen, the most important, but often overlooked skill for a CIO is management. “Most people consider the CIO to be a technology person, and they want to put them in a technology box, but technology should be only 20% of a CIO’s job,” says Hadari, who has been leading IT for the $15 billion biotech business since March 2021. “CIOs need to understand infrastructure, security, and business applications at a high level, but it is more important that they know how to manage a b

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