March, 2024

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French regulator fines Google $271M over generative AI copyright issue

CIO

France’s competition authority fined Google, its parent company Alphabet, and two subsidiaries a total of €250 million ($271 million) for breaching a previous agreement on using copyrighted content for training its Bard AI service, now known as Gemini. The Autorité de la concurrence said Wednesday that the search giant failed to comply with a June 2022 settlement over the use of news stories in its search results, News and Discover pages.

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Best Practices For Power BI On Databricks Webinar

Chris Webb BI

I recently took part in a webinar with Denny Lee, Liping Huang and Marius Panga from Databricks on the subject of best practices for using Power BI on Databricks. You can view the recording on LinkedIn here: [link] …or on YouTube here: My section at the beginning covering Power BI best practices for Import and DirectQuery doesn’t contain any new information – if you’ve been following the DirectQuery posts on this blog or read the DirectQuery guidance docs here and here th

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The Importance of Analytics and Reporting in Healthcare

Smart Data Collective

Analytics and reporting have become indispensable in the rapidly evolving healthcare landscape, driving transformation across patient care, operational efficiency, and strategic decision-making. These valuable tools enable providers to delve into vast amounts of health data for insights that enhance outcomes, personalize treatments plans, and deepen understanding of health trends.

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How To Fix Online Reputation: Expert Insights on ORM

mention

For this article, we’ve consulted with over a dozen prominent business people and online reputation experts on the most burning questions of online reputation management. They’ve shared their ideas, best practices, and success cases, translating into a unique knowledge source to fix online reputation you’re about to tap into. _ Online reputation is fragile.

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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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What are the largest ITES-3S task orders?

FedSavvy

We’re back with the second installment of our ITES-3S series ! Our last blog featured an overview of the contract vehicle, including a look at the top winners, customers and small business trends. In this blog, we will focus on the top task orders awarded thus far. Top ITES-3S Task Orders As mentioned previously, ITES-3S is utilized by a diverse set of Army departments and commands.

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CIOs take aim at SaaS sprawl

CIO

Years into strategies centered on adopting cloud point solutions, CIOs increasingly find themselves facing a bill past due: rationalizing, managing, and integrating an ever-expanding lineup of SaaS offerings — many of which they themselves didn’t bring into the organization’s cloud estate. Salesforce, Workday, Atlassian, Oracle, Microsoft, GitHub, and ServiceNow are but a few of the many vendors whose cloud applications make up the new tech backbone for most enterprises today, in conjunction wit

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Overhead Of Getting Relationship Columns In Power BI DirectQuery Mode

Chris Webb BI

Many Power BI connectors for relational databases, such as the SQL Server connector, have an advanced option to control whether relationship columns are returned or not. By default this option is on. Returning these relationship columns adds a small overhead to the time taken to open a connection to a data source and so, for Power BI DirectQuery semantic models, turning this option off can improve report performance slightly.

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5 Reasons Why Startups are Turning to AI and Contractors

Smart Data Collective

Why are startups increasingly aligning with artificial intelligence and the gig economy? It’s simple: AI and contractors offer them agility and precision in a competitive market. Startups are unique beasts striving to disrupt markets with limited resources but boundless innovation. To maintain this delicate balance, they often turn to AI and contractors for a boost.

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Competitive Analysis Report: What Is It & How to Create One (+ Examples)

mention

With the rise of digital marketing, the business world has evolved into a competitive market. Every business is now doing its best to stay ahead of its competitors. This can be in terms of product development, customer service, customer experience, or anything else. In such a scenario, a competitive analysis report is a crucial tool to understand your competitors and the industry landscape better.

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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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What does Jacobs bring to Amentum in its mega-merger?

FedSavvy

In November 2023, Amentum and Jacobs agreed to merge Jacobs’ Critical Mission Systems (CMS) segment and the cyber and intelligence (C&I) portions of the Divergent Solutions segment with Amentum to create an independent, publicly traded company. Jacobs CMS and C&I add expertise in energy, space exploration, intelligence and analytics, and digital modernization to Amentum.

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Moving from Power BI to Microsoft Fabric

Paul Turnley

Fabric is here but what does that mean if you are using Power BI? What do you need to know and what, if anything will you need to change if you are a Power BI report designer, developer or BI solution architect? What parts of Fabric should you use now and how do you plan for the near-term future? As I write this in March of 2024, I'm at the Microsoft MVP Summit at the Microsoft campus in Redmond, Washington this week learning about what the product teams will be working on over the next year or

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CIOs weigh where to place AI bets — and how to de-risk them

CIO

Amid the turbulence of AI, technologies are emerging rapidly, startups are clamoring for attention, and hyperscalers are scrambling to corral market share. It’s an environment that taxes the decision-making skills of the even the most savvy CIOs. But ready or not, choices with far-reaching repercussions must be made. And standing still is not an option.

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Creative Ways to Surf Your Data Using Virtual and Augmented Reality

TDAN BI

Organizations often struggle with finding nuggets of information buried within their data to achieve their business goals. Technology sometimes comes along to offer some interesting solutions that can bridge that gap for teams that practice good data management hygiene.

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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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Ways Marketers Can Use Customer Data

Smart Data Collective

The advent of sophisticated data analytics tools has revolutionized how businesses approach marketing. With an abundance of customer data at their fingertips, marketers are now empowered to understand their audience like never before.

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Demystifying Reputation Score: A Comprehensive Guide for Businesses

mention

As businesses increasingly find their success intertwined with their online image, reputation score have become a pivotal metric that can make or break a brand. These scores are not merely arbitrary numbers but reflections of a company’s digital interactions, customer sentiments , and overall impact on the online ecosystem. Understanding and handling these scores is crucial for businesses aiming to succeed in a world where trust and credibility matter not only in the real world but also in

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Oscars by the Numbers: Quantifying Hollywood’s Biggest Night

Domo

The 96th Academy Awards happens on Sunday, March 10. I’m writing this on the Wednesday before—and, if all goes to plan, you’ll be reading our data story on the Oscars on Friday. (Unless you’re reading the Domo on Data backlog, in which case—hi! You can find our full log of stories here. ) I share this time stamp because it means one critical thing, and it’s something many of us have in common: I’m in a rush to build something worthy of our loyal readership.

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Choosing B2B Marketing Channels & Formats: Engage Buyers On Their Turf & Terms

Weidert Group

Today’s industrial buyer is on a journey across new terrain — and B2B marketers are challenged to even find them in fragmented digital spaces. Many industrial marketers have found themselves watching their website traffic and conversions plummet. Yet, curiously, their sales may remain strong. So what’s going on? Buyers are waiting longer to reveal themselves as prospects.

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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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Re-imagining Business Workflows with AI-Powered Automation

CIO

Artificial intelligence (AI) is delivering rapid change for Australian business by raising customers’ expectations, generating new competitive challenges, and creating opportunities for new products and services. This rapid change demands a rapid response, but the strength of that response depends greatly on two factors – the agility of systems and processes and the availability of skilled workers to run them.

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The Cool Kids Corner: Neurodiversity in Your Team

Dataversity

Hello! I’m Mark Horseman, and welcome to The Cool Kids Corner. This is my monthly check-in to share with you the people and ideas I encounter as a data evangelist with DATAVERSITY. (Last month, we discussed the importance of communication.) This month, we’re talking about neurodiversity in your data team. The term neurodiversity was first […] The post The Cool Kids Corner: Neurodiversity in Your Team appeared first on DATAVERSITY.

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Harnessing Advanced Data Analytics for Smarter Saving Strategy

Smart Data Collective

Discover the secrets behind smarter saving strategies using advanced data analytics. Revolutionize your financial plan with data-driven insights!

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Incremental Refresh in Power BI, Part 3: Best Practices for Large Semantic Models

BI Insight

In the two previous posts of the Incremental Refresh in Power BI series, we have learned what incremental refresh is, how to implement it, and best practices on how to safely publish the semantic model changes to Microsoft Fabric (aka Power BI Service). This post focuses on a couple of more best practices in implementing … Continue reading Incremental Refresh in Power BI, Part 3: Best Practices for Large Semantic Models The post Incremental Refresh in Power BI, Part 3: Best Practices for L

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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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5 Reasons You Should NOT Attend Domopalooza

Domo

We spend much of the year planning Domopalooza and trying to find the most innovative, curious, creative people to join us in Salt Lake City to talk everything Domo. That means we’ve also spent time trying to understand who isn’t the best fit for Domopalooza. With the conference coming up soon, we want you to be able to make an informed decision. There are plenty of reasons you shouldn’t attend Domopalooza 2024 —here are our top five. 1.

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Experience Inbound 2024 Celebrates a Decade as Wisconsin’s Premier Marketing & Sales Conference

Weidert Group

APPLETON, WI – Marketing agencies Weidert Group of Appleton and Stream Creative of Milwaukee announce the opening of registration for Experience Inbound, Wisconsin’s premier marketing and sales conference, which is marking a decade of industry-leading keynotes, insightful breakout sessions, and professional networking in 2024. With sessions led by experts in marketing, sales, SEO, social media, PR, content, AI, and more, Experience Inbound has become the go-to event for Wisconsin’s marketing and

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6 key considerations for selecting an AI systems vendor

CIO

Many IT leaders are responding to C-suite pressure for artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities by increasing the organization’s AI investment in 2024. They’re finding that AI success is a complex task, and they need all they help they can get. Choosing the right AI systems vendor – one with the right capabilities – won’t solve all these issues. But it can simplify achieving your AI goals.

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Mastering Microsoft SQL Server: Analyzing and Optimizing Complex Queries

Dataversity

In the realm of database management, particularly with Microsoft SQL Server, understanding and optimizing complex queries is crucial for maintaining system performance and efficiency. As databases grow and complexity, the queries used to retrieve, update, or manipulate data can become increasingly intricate, potentially leading to slower response times and decreased application performance.

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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