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CASBs Help Cloud-Based Businesses Avoid Data Breaches

Smart Data Collective

Cloud technology has become increasingly important for businesses in all parts of the economy. Zippia reports that 48% of businesses store their most important data on the cloud and 60% of all corporate data is on the cloud. The growing popularity of cloud solutions is not surprising. After all, there are clearly a number of major benefits of cloud computing.

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Top 10 Questions to Ask in Competitive Analysis Projects (Deeper Dive)

Aqute Intelligence

When analyzing your competition, you’ve probably wondered, “what should be the main focus of this research?”, “what are the important questions to ask?” and “how can I incorporate this into my competitive analysis projects?”. At each stage of your project, you’ll be taking the time to identify competitors, research strengths and weaknesses, find solid data and benchmark against your own business.

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Cloud-Based GPS Tracking Revolutionizes Excavation Projects

Smart Data Collective

The market for cloud computing is growing faster than we originally anticipated when we started running this blog. A report by Fortune Business Insights states that the market for cloud solutions reached $480 billion last year. Many people are still trying to get a better understanding of the possible applications of cloud technology. We usually think about the merits of using cloud computing in a traditional office setting.

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Celebrating Data and Impact—5 Highlights from Domopalooza 2023

Domo

Domopalooza —Domo’s annual event—is always a celebration of data. This year, it was also a celebration of the legendary business impact people are having with data—on their careers, teams, and companies. And this is exactly what Domo has always been about: putting data insights into everyone’s hands so they can make quick, smart decisions that move the business forward.

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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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EBX Goes Big in 6.1 Launch: TeamUp, Tile View, Boosted Hierarchies, and More

IBI

Reading Time: 3 minutes For more than two decades, TIBCO ® EBX software has helped businesses manage their data with an industry-leading master data management (MDM) tool. What started as a single tool to manage, govern, and share data within an organization has grown into an MDM solution that hosts capabilities and features for a fully functioning enterprise MDM platform.

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Do We Expect Too Much or Too Little of AI?

TDAN BI

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is garnering a lot of attention these days. Although impressive, it isn’t perfect and as a result, we run the risk of underestimating the potential impact of this swiftly improving environment. Recently, CBC published, We Asked an AI Questions about New Brunswick.

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THE MERGE - What you should know

WideNARROW

You may have seen this through our press release and on social.

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Architecture For Cloud Based Processing

TDAN BI

Data in the Cloud For a variety of motivations, many organizations have decided to place data and processing on the cloud. One approach to using the cloud is to just throw a lot of data onto the cloud. The cloud vendors advocate this approach.

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THE MERGE - What you should know

WideNARROW

You may have seen this through our press release and on social. Wide Narrow is merging with InfoDesk and we couldn't be more excited. We are sure you have plenty of questions and wanted to address some of them here.

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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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“Experience the difference with our next-generation cloud ERP”

BI Data Intel

Experience The Difference With Our Next-Generation Cloud ERP The emergence of cloud technology has brought about a significant transformation in the way businesses operate. Cloud technology provides a range of benefits that can help businesses streamline their operations and improve their bottom line. In this blog, we will explore the benefits of cloud technology, particularly in relation to accounting software.

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How Can Natural Language Processing (NLP) Help My Business?

Dataversity

Research reveals that the global natural language processing (NLP) market size is projected to grow by $33 billion within the next five years, an annual growth rate of 25%. The use of natural language processing for search capability is ubiquitous – from the Google-type “ask a question and get an answer” environment consumers love to the augmented […] The post How Can Natural Language Processing (NLP) Help My Business?

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The Benefits of Accessible Business Intelligence

BI Data Intel

The Benefits Of Accessible Business Intelligence Business intelligence (BI) is a powerful tool that can help organizations of all sizes gain valuable insights into their business data. It can help identify trends, measure performance, and provide actionable data that can be used to make informed decisions. However, in the past, many businesses have found BI to be difficult to access, understand, and use.

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Ace Your Sales Pitch with Battlecards: Here’s How To Create Them

Kompyte

Ever hear your sales team fumble through pitches or provide the wrong product information? It’s painful. Like salt on an open wound kind of pain.

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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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AM Best Withdraws Credit Ratings of Equitable Financial Life and Annuity Company

Wink Intel

OLDWICK, N.J.–( BUSINESS WIRE )– AM Best has affirmed the Financial Strength Rating of B++ (Good) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating of “bbb” (Good) of Equitable Financial Life and Annuity Company (EFLA). The outlook of the Credit Ratings (ratings) is stable. Concurrently, AM Best has withdrawn the ratings at the request of the company to no longer participate in AM Best’s interactive rating process.

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Improving employee experience in the hybrid workplace with Microsoft 365

CIO

Though three-quarters of U.S. employers now offer hybrid work, some banks and insurance companies have been slow to embrace this emerging work model. We spoke with Ashok Krish, Global Head of Digital Workplace at TCS , about how hybrid work will impact employers – and their employees – in the financial services industry. How will hybrid work change the employee experience in the financial services industry?

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The Standard to Acquire Life & Disability Business from Elevance Health; Companies Announce Future Distribution Partnership

Wink Intel

PORTLAND, Ore.–( BUSINESS WIRE )–StanCorp Financial Group, Inc., (The Standard) and Elevance Health (NYSE: ELV) today announced a definitive agreement under which The Standard will acquire the Life & Disability business from Elevance Health and enter into a product distribution partnership. The Standard and Elevance Health are leading benefits providers with deep expertise in group benefits administration and a shared commitment to customer service.

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Your Data Architecture Holds the Key to Unlocking AI’s Full Potential

CIO

In the words of J.R.R. Tolkien, “shortcuts make long delays.” I get it, we live in an age of instant gratification, with Doordash and Grubhub meals on-demand, fast-paced social media and same-day Amazon Prime deliveries. But I’ve learned that in some cases, shortcuts are just not possible. Such is the case with comprehensive AI implementations; you cannot shortcut success.

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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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RetireOne Partners with Corebridge Financial to Provide RIAs with Greater Choice for Commission-Free Retirement Income Solutions

Wink Intel

SAN FRANCISCO–( BUSINESS WIRE )– RetireOne ® , the leading independent platform for fee-based insurance solutions, today announced a partnership with Corebridge Financial , formerly AIG Life & Retirement, to distribute two fee-based annuity solutions on RetireOne’s fiduciary annuity + insurance marketplace. Fee-only fiduciaries on RetireOne’s platform now have access to an even larger selection of zero-commission, simple-to-use retirement solutions designed to fit the needs of t

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How to Navigate Market Pressures with Cloud-based Network Management

CIO

By: Shruthi Kalale Prakashan, Sr. Manager, Product Marketing, Aruba Central. For many organizations large and small, the COVID-19 pandemic was the tipping point for cloud adoption. Unsurprisingly, more than half of enterprise IT spending in key market segments will shift to the cloud by 2025, according to Gartner. [1] As the cloud continues to play a key role in building resilience and enabling agility, the role of the network is more critical than ever before.

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AM Best Affirms Credit Ratings of Symetra Financial Corporation and Its Subsidiaries

Wink Intel

OLDWICK, N.J.–( BUSINESS WIRE )– AM Best has affirmed the Financial Strength Rating of A (Excellent) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Ratings (Long-Term ICR) of “a+” (Excellent) of Symetra Life Insurance Company and its subsidiary, First Symetra National Life Insurance Company of New York (New York, NY), together referred to as Symetra Life Group.

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3 ways CIOs should drive the future of work

CIO

“Who owns and oversees employee experience and the future of work at your organization” is a question I’ve been asking CIOs and IT leaders a lot of late. The ensuing conversation usually reveals a telling disconnect that CIOs should remedy for the health of their companies. Most IT leaders pause before responding to this question. Some go on to describe hybrid work plans, which is one aspect of the future of work, but it’s not the complete scope.

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What Questions Are Brands Asking About Their ESG Initiatives Ahead of 2024?

Temperatures are rising (and not just metaphorically) as key stakeholders anxiously anticipate the outcomes of COP28. While companies reconsider their 2024 environmental sustainability strategies, there is another aspect of ESG that deserves exploring, the social sector. In the latest edition of "Navigating ESG Comms Through the Cosmos - Sagittarius Edition", 3BL hones in on this sign’s bold quality of asking questions others are burning to know the answers to.

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New York Life Named Official Life Insurance Partner of the New York Yankees

Wink Intel

NEW YORK–( BUSINESS WIRE )–New York Life, America’s largest mutual life insurer 1 , today announced that the company has become the official life insurance partner of the New York Yankees. This multi-year partnership includes brand presence for New York Life throughout Yankee Stadium and extends to digital and social properties as well as local community events.

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Finseca: Three Lessons Ordinary Americans Can Learn From SVB’s Failure

Wink Intel

WASHINGTON , March 30, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — An individual or a family’s financial journey requires careful planning and preparation. When four in five Americans describe the state of the economy as not so good or poor , an overwhelming share of Americans aren’t confident their children’s lives will be better than their own, and we see bank failures like what happened with Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), it’s easy for ordinary Americans to let pessimism set in.

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Too much business to care about annuity transfers?

Wink Intel

I am hearing scuttlebutt that with any annuity transfer coming into some insurers, the home office will stop following-up on the money after the first email or call. Apparently, these companies are leaving it up to the agent, client, or FMO to close out the case and follow-up on transfers. What say you? Laziness? Too much business to care? Something else?

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Thousands of Retirees Can’t Withdraw Savings Invested in Firms Controlled by Indicted Financier Greg Lindberg

Wink Intel

Mark Zintel, a retiree who lives near Tampa, Fla., is furious that $700,000 in annuities he bought from an insurer have been frozen for almost four years. He is one of tens of thousands of people whose money was rendered unreachable as the empire of self-described billionaire Greg Lindberg slowly imploded. Click HERE to read the full story via WSJ Wink’s Moore on the Market: For those of you have have never been exposed to an insurance company failure- CRIPES.

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ABM Evolution: How Top Marketers Are Using Account-Based Strategies

In times of economic uncertainty, account-based strategies are essential. According to several business analysts and practitioners, ABM is a necessity for creating more predictable revenue. Research shows that nearly three-quarters of marketers (74%) already have the resources needed to build successful ABM programs.

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Nationwide Gets Closer to Fidelity — and Invesco

Wink Intel

Nationwide is joining with Fidelity Investments to launch a variable annuity and expand variable annuity distribution. The Columbus, Ohio-based insurer also announced that it’s working with another asset manager, Invesco, to add investment options to the menu of flat-fee, investment-only variable annuity contracts. Click HERE to read the full story via ThinkAdvisor The post Nationwide Gets Closer to Fidelity — and Invesco appeared first on Wink.

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How the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023 Affects Annuities

Wink Intel

Signed into law by President Joe Biden on Dec. 29, the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023 governs U.S. spending until the end of the fiscal year, on Sept. 30. The bill contains a little bit of everything, including provisions that affect annuities. Click HERE to read the full story via ThinkAdvisor The post How the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023 Affects Annuities appeared first on Wink.

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