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What is a data engineer? An analytics role in high demand

CIO

What is a data engineer? Data engineers design, build, and optimize systems for data collection, storage, access, and analytics at scale. They create data pipelines used by data scientists, data-centric applications, and other data consumers. This IT role requires a significant set of technical skills, including deep knowledge of SQL database design and multiple programming languages.

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Competitor Tracking 101: Identifying the Competition and Your Biggest Questions Answered

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The Olympic podium. Bookish teens jockeying for valedictorian. The couples on the cusp of a $50K payday on British reality TV phenomenon Love Island. There is nothing more fundamentally human than competition (except perhaps the desire to win ).

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The Future of AI: High Quality, Human Powered Data

Smart Data Collective

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has significantly altered how work is done. However, AI even has a bigger impact by enhancing human capabilities. Research conducted by the Harvard Business Review found that the interaction between machines and humans significantly improves firms’ performance. Successful collaboration between humans and machines enhances each other’s strengths, including teamwork, leadership, creativity, speed, scalability, and quantitative capabilities.

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Calling The Power BI Enhanced Refresh API From Power Automate, Part 1: Creating A Basic Custom Connector

Chris Webb BI

I love the new Power BI Enhanced Refresh API : it allows you to do things like refresh individual tables in your dataset, override incremental refresh policies, control the amount of parallelism , cancel refreshes and a lot more, while being easier to use than the XMLA Endpoint. However, like the XMLA Endpoint, one problem remains: how can you schedule a dataset refresh using it?

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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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AI for Decision-Makers: How to Win Trust from the Outset

CIO

In business, data science and artificial intelligence are usually geared towards powerful efficiencies and growth. User trust is often overlooked. This can quickly morph into a major problem, particularly when AI is introduced to support strategic choices. Data science and AI teams focus constantly on methodology and accuracy. This is critical, ensuring algorithms deliver valuable insights, analytics and support increased automation.

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How to Protect Data Within an App With RASP Security

Smart Data Collective

When data security within apps is discussed, most people think of WAF. However, a web application firewall is limited. A trusted security tool focuses on the traffic going in and out without considering what happens to sensitive information circulating inside the application. In cybersecurity, this creates a major blind spot that could result in a data breach.

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How to Create an NFT

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In 2021, there were $41 billion in cryptocurrency transactions across NFT marketplaces. That’s a massive amount of money. So, how do you get a piece of that pie? Creating your own NFT sounds like an impossible task, especially without coding, designing, or blockchain experience. But the creative process is more achievable than it sounds. In this tell-all guide, we share the top NFTs by volume traded (for inspiration, of course) and then break down the five simple steps for how to create yo

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Travel Industry Revitalized by Seamless, Secure Payment Options

CIO

The last thing consumers need when they’re hundreds or thousands of miles away from home is to be the victim of payment fraud. With a travel resurgence already well under way, it’s essential for industry organizations to ensure they are offering consumers payment options that are not just convenient, but that also reduce risk and instill confidence with every transaction.

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Elevate Your Talent Search With Company Culture Data

Zoominfo

No matter how turbulent or stable the job market is, company culture remains the differentiating factor in attracting and retaining top talent. Unfortunately, most recruiters have a limited view of how a company or client compares with others. Imagine how different your day as a recruiter would be if you knew what the culture was like at companies where your best-fit candidates work.

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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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Using Data Analytics to Optimize Your Cash Collection Approach

Smart Data Collective

Data analytics technology has become very important for helping companies manage their financial strategies. Companies are projected to spend nearly $12 billion on financial analytics services by 2028. There are many great benefits of using data analytics to improve financial management strategies. Many investors are using data analytics to invest in stocks.

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Professional Writing Services VS Content Marketplaces: Which is Best?

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In the early days of digital marketing, the competition was low, and businesses thrived despite leveraging the myriad benefits of digital marketing. But today, with more and more small and medium businesses moving towards digital marketing, the growing competition is leaving behind those who are not making the most out of these digital marketing opportunities.

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The CIO’s Hybrid Cloud Journey Incorporates Extensive Systems Thinking

CIO

Heading down the path of systems thinking for the hybrid cloud is the equivalent of taking the road less traveled in the storage industry. It is much more common to hear vendor noise about direct cloud integration features, such as a mechanism to move data on a storage array to public cloud services or run separate instances of the core vendor software inside public cloud environments.

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Accelerate Candidate Search with Advanced Smart Filters in TalentOS

Zoominfo

Filling the top of a recruitment funnel is often the most labor-intensive part of a recruiter’s job. After considering all the active applications, recruiters also spend considerable time trying to figure out where highly coveted passive candidates are employed — and what might convince them to make a move. To help solve that problem, ZoomInfo TalentOS is now equipped with Advanced Smart Filters that allow recruiters to fine-tune their candidate search.

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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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Agile Technology and Big Data Improve the State of Cybersecurity

Smart Data Collective

The risk of data breaches is rising sharply. The number increased 56% between 2017 and 2018. Fortunately, new technology can help enhance cybersecurity. Big data technology is becoming more important in the field of cybersecurity. Cybersecurity experts are using data analytics and AI to identify warning signs that a firewall has been penetrated, conduct risk scoring analyses and perform automated cybersecurity measures.

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Competitor Highlights: Systems Planning and Analysis…who are they?

FedSavvy

Headquartered in Alexandria, VA; Systems Planning and Analysis (SPA) provides knowledge-based technical, operational, programmatic, policy and business solutions to support national security objectives. The company’s core capabilities include operations research, modeling and simulation (M&S), risk assessment, geospatial analysis, data science, wargaming, synthetic training environments and 3D modeling.

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Sitecore’s Release of XM Cloud Empowers Brands and Marketers to Maximize Consumer Engagement

CIO

The true long-term effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on consumer shopping habits won’t truly be understood for years, but its effect on digital transformation is immediately evident. What we know for certain is that consumers and business buyers expect lightning-fast digital experiences, available on any content device, and the experience has to mirror the ease of doing business that leading brands, like Netflix and Target, delivered during the lockdown.

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Want to Keep Your Employees? Invest in Career Development

Zoominfo

With unemployment rates steadily hovering around pre-pandemic lows , the power in the US job market has shifted into the hands of applicants — with competition that goes far beyond who has the best craft beers on tap. But while job-seekers aren’t struggling to find roles, companies are finding it difficult to hire talent that wants to stick around. Leaving a job is no longer an anxiety-inducing endeavor.

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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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AI Technology Helps Facilitate Bitcoin Trading in Djibouti

Smart Data Collective

We previously mentioned that AI has helped make bitcoin mining more popular in the UK. However, developing economies also benefit from AI as they invest more in cryptocurrencies. Djibouti is a country in Africa that is starting to become more dependent on artificial intelligence technology. A 2018 report by UNESCO shows that AI technology is transforming the continent and Djibouti is among the countries benefiting.

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Podcast with Scale2Market on How Agencies REALLY Evaluate Proposals

FedSavvy

In this podcast, Brian Lindholm of FedSavvy Strategies discusses proposal evaluations and trends in wins / losses with Shirley Collier of Scale2Market. [link].

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Mistakes to Avoid When Moving Your Contact Center to the Cloud

CIO

The contact center has traditionally operated through on-premises servers and software, but shifting it to the cloud can help CIOs improve the customer journey. Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud-based contact center-as-a-service (CCaaS) options now give enterprises more confidence that they can better deliver high-quality customer experiences.

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A Retailer’s Guide to Competitor-based Pricing

Intelligence Node

In this article, you will learn about competitor-based pricing and its pros and cons. You will understand its types and how it differs from alternative pricing strategies. The post A Retailer’s Guide to Competitor-based Pricing appeared first on Blog.

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What Regulations Will Impact Sustainability Comms in 2024?

Navigating the waters of sustainability reporting disclosures and regulations can be intimidating, to say the least. With various measures set in motion in 2023 to keep companies accountable, there is a lot in store for brands’ impact communication in the upcoming year. 3BL is kicking off this January with our Navigating ESG Comms Through the Cosmos - Capricorn Edition by highlighting the impact of: The U.S Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Climate disclosure rules The European Commission

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5 AI-Powered Plugins For Your Website

Smart Data Collective

Slightly more than a decade ago, artificial intelligence (AI) was famously used in the manufacturing industry through robots. You could use these robots in warehouses to ease product handling. However, AI and related machine learning have extended to the online space. If you’ve been monitoring your eCommerce shop using human agents, you’ll likely get overwhelmed if your shop grows exponentially.

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How can smart #infopros make more sustainable vendor choices? 

Vable

A genuine commitment to sustainability is critical for organisations to remain relevant and competitive in this changing world. Much like digital transformation, driving sustainability requires organisations to transform their business from within. Organisations require individuals to take the lead and as we saw at BIALL 2022 , library and information professionals are not only at the forefront of legal tech implementations but are positioning themselves as sustainability experts.

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Cloud PC preps Grant Thornton for hybrid future

CIO

Enterprises that pushed in early to the cloud fared far better than their competition, Grant Thornton chief among them. The UK-based accounting and tax consulting firm was one of few accountants in the UK that weathered the 2020 tax season without a hitch, thanks to its early bet on SaaS, Microsoft Azure, and software-defined networking. So says Greg Swift, CIO of Grant Thornton, whose 5,000 employees switched to remote work seamlessly using the company’s core auditing applications on standard W

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Deadly Sins in Proposals: The saga continues

FedSavvy

We’re back to bring forward yet more “deadly sins.” While these sins and examples might give us all a good hearty and exasperated groan, let’s learn from these errors so you can be a smarter bidder. This continues our series in win-loss trends. Sin #7: Key personnel exceed basic requirements = strength? No! There is a necessary distinction between the requirements vs. providing a person that appears to have more or better qualifications than required.

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A Practical Guide to Business Intelligence Governance

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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How a Danish Bitcoin Trader Discovered the Wonders of Analytics

Smart Data Collective

We have talked at length about the benefits of analytics in the financial sector. Global companies are projected to spend nearly $5.9 billion on financial analytics technology this year. Most of the discussions about the role of data analytics in finance have centered around traditional financial businesses, such as insurance, mutual funds, money management and other financial institutions.

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How to Remove Unauthorized Amazon Sellers

Data Hut

The internet has made it easy for anyone to sell anything, even if they don't have the right to. If you're an Amazon seller, you probably know that unauthorized third-party resellers are hurting your sales and stealing your brand's credibility. Amazon is a massive marketplace with over 350 million products. Being one of the most popular online shopping platforms in the world, it is used by millions of people each day to buy products from different sellers.

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How to make your new cloud-first strategy work with full-stack observability

CIO

Over the past decade, an ever-growing number of organisations have taken their infrastructure and applications to the cloud, delivering noticeable results impacting the bottom line and several other business metrics. This is why today, a cloud-first strategy is rightly recognised even by many non-IT corporate leaders as the catalyst for rapid digital transformation and a key enabler for businesses to respond to constantly evolving customer and employee needs.