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Microsoft signs $2.8B cloud deal with London Stock Exchange Group

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Microsoft has signed a 10-year deal with the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) that calls for the software giant to buy a 4% stake in the exchange in order to jointly develop new products and services for data and analytics. Microsoft will buy the stake from a Blackstone and Thomson Reuters consortium, which previously sold the financial data company Refinitiv to LSEG for £22bn (US$26.9 billion) in 2021.

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Cloud Technology is Essential for Transitioning to Remote Teams

Smart Data Collective

More companies are investing in cloud technology to jumpstart their growth. One of many reasons that people are using cloud computing is that it helps them create cohesive remote teams. This is one of the many reasons that more organizations are shifting towards a global workforce. Cloud Technology is Driving More Companies Towards Embracing Remote Teams.

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SAP Innovation Awards: Celebrating 10 Years of Innovation

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It’s human nature — as well as the nature of this magnificent planet — that change is constant. But sometimes, change can be perceived as bad. We see and feel this in the form of climate change, supply chain issues, and sustainability challenges, just to name a few. But are these problems insurmountable? No. Rather, we see these as opportunities to innovate and make positive changes.

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Sharing Excel Reports Connected To Power BI Datasets Or The Excel Data Model/Power Pivot Using OneDrive For Business

Chris Webb BI

I love Excel as an alternative to Power BI reports, especially now that Excel Online allows you to interact with browser-based Excel reports that use Power BI datasets or the Excel Data Model (aka Power Pivot) as a source. After all, why try to recreate a PivotTable in a Power BI report when you can give your users an actual PivotTable? You can publish Excel reports to Power BI and view them there; however if you want to share these reports using OneDrive for Business, outside Power BI, you̵

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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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IT monitoring is mission critical. It’s time to evolve the helpdesk

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Digital transformation and the shift to hybrid working are unlocking new revenue opportunities for businesses, driving operational efficiencies, and improving employee experiences. But for IT teams, the two trends are also bringing a range of challenges. First, IT teams must manage ever more decentralised networks that extend to anywhere an employee can connect to corporate systems with a device.

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ZoomInfo Now Available on Google Cloud Marketplace

Zoominfo

Go-to-market leaders trust ZoomInfo to bring their revenue and operations strategies to life, more quickly and effectively than ever before. Now we’re making it even easier to access our powerful data and insights by offering our signature products on Google Cloud Marketplace. Our Google Cloud Marketplace listing gives ZoomInfo customers faster access to our platform, including our SalesOS and MarketingOS solutions.

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3 Key Factors Digital Agency Owners Need to Consider While Heading into Recession

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There are several strong indications that a recession is on its way. In the last few months, many high-profile US tech companies announced layoffs. While Meta laid off 11,000 workers, Amazon let go of 10,000. The ongoing purge at Twitter could see its employee base of 7,500 shrinks by about 75%. Around 42,000 workers in US tech companies lost their jobs in November alone, according to layoffs.

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Is Your Database Built for Streaming Data?

Dataversity

When it comes to data sources, analytic apps developers are facing new and increasingly complex challenges, such as having to deal with higher demand from event data and streaming sources. Here in the early stages of this “stream revolution,” developers are building modern analytics applications that use continuously delivered real-time data. Yet while streams are clearly the […].

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Did you miss the life sales report release?

Wink Intel

In case you missed it, Wink release 3rd Quarter, 2022 life insurance sales. Click HERE to view the news release. . The post Did you miss the life sales report release? appeared first on Wink.

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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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Why Leveraging Unstructured Data and AI Will Be Key to Customer Success in 2023

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Analysts like IDC and Deloitte estimate that up to 80% of the world’s data is unstructured text data, which makes getting valuable insights out of this type of data a huge challenge. Worse, customers can’t easily find the right answers to address their product and service-related questions that are hidden in large amounts of support documents. As a result, employees […].

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Big-City Insurers Could Poach Midwest Workers in Remote Work Era

Wink Intel

“Des Moines enjoys a very good standard of living because of the insurance sector,” said Sheryl Moore CEO of Moore Market Intelligence and the publisher of Wink’s Sales & Market Report. Her firm’s office is in Des Moines. “Our insurance jobs pay very competitively. Click HERE to read the full story via Life Annuity Specialist. . Wink’s Note: We don’t agree that people are poaching DSM employees for work elsewhere because of remote opportunities and higher salaries.

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Broadcom Software: Taming IT Complexity through Effective Strategies and Partnerships

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By Andy Nallappan, Chief Technology Officer and Head of Software Business Operations, Broadcom Software The information technology that enables scientific and commercial breakthroughs, from precision medicine to digital transformation, demonstrates tech’s boundless potential to improve our world. Yet, tech practitioners have long traded progress for increased complexity.

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Indexed Life Insurance Sales Rose 11% in Third Quarter, Wink Says

Wink Intel

Third-quarter sales of indexed universal life insurance rose 11% from a year ago to $670.7 million, according to market researcher Wink. The top five carriers in the segment were National Life Group , with a 14.4% share, followed by Transamerica , Pacific Life , John Hancock and Nationwide. Click HERE to read the full story via Life Annuity Specialist.

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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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12 Future Trends in Healthcare for 2023

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The healthcare industry is going through some changes. Spurred by advances in technology, availability of data, and shifting consumer values, needs, and expectations, these changes total up to a complete shift in the way we do patient care today and in the future. HCPs must remain abreast of these changes to compete effectively. Below are 12 predictions about the future trends in healthcare for 2023.

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AIG provides layoff notice, cutting 461 Amarillo workers from job

Wink Intel

AMARILLO, Texas (KFDA) – An Affiliate of Insurance Giant (AIG) gave the Texas Workforce Commission notice on a number of Amarillo employees who will be losing their jobs. According to the notice, 461 workers will lose their jobs. In the letter, American General Life Insurance said, it will be restructuring with layoffs effective February 1, 2023, and the separation should stretch to June 13.

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Containers, Kubernetes, and Istio: Are You Keeping Up with the Latest in Integration?

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Reading Time: 5 minutes. The rapid evolution of containers over the past two decades has changed the dynamic of modern IT infrastructure, and it started even before Docker went mainstream in 2013—going all the way back to when server-level virtualization took the form of VMs. Flash forward to Docker: an open-source, easy-to-use GUI with the ability to package, provision, and run container technology.

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F&G Annuities & Life, Inc. Declares Inaugural Quarterly Cash Dividend

Wink Intel

DES MOINES, Iowa , Dec. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — F&G Annuities & Life, Inc. (NYSE: FG ) (“F&G” or “the Company”), a leading provider of annuity and life insurance products, today announced that its Board of Directors has declared an inaugural quarterly cash dividend of $0.20 per share of common stock, pursuant to the previously announced dividend program in which the Company intends to pay quarterly cash dividends on its common stock at an initial agg

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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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Managing User Access with Workspaces: A Product Manager Interview

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Many teams on a single Mention account, is that manageable ? That’s a question we’re about to answer with Astrid Mancel, Product Manager at Mention. Her squad just released Workspaces, a new feature to make it a breeze to use Mention for numerous users. Astrid Mancel, Product Manager. Hello Astrid, can you tell us about your job and your squad?

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Milliman’s 2022 Fixed Indexed Annuity Industry Experience Studies show policyholder behavior is highly sensitive to interest rates and benefit guarantees

Wink Intel

Recon ® platform helps annuity companies better manage risks. SEATTLE , Dec. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Milliman, Inc., a premier global consulting and actuarial firm, today announced the results of its two 2022 Fixed Indexed Annuity Industry Experience Studies, which analyze policyholder behavior across 15 companies spanning 16 years. The two studies cover surrender behavior and partial withdrawals, including income utilization for guaranteed lifetime withdrawal benefit (GLWB) riders.

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T-Swift dominates the Billboard Hot 100

Domo

Taylor Swift released her latest album “Midnights” at the end of October 2022 and for the week of November 5th, 2022 it held all of the Top 10 spots on the Billboard Hot 100. This seemed quite impressive but we thought it would make sense to go to the data and see just how impressive. Luckily, there is a Python package to pull data from the Billboard charts and using Domo’s Jupyter Notebook integration we can easily pull that data into Domo (I will note that this work was my fi

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“Terrified”: Nearly Half of Investors Check Retirement Balance 3 Times a Week

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Levels of preparedness and confidence vary as retirement fears weigh more heavily on men than women. COLUMBUS, Ohio , Dec. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Investors are feeling increased pressure on their financial and retirement plans in today’s turbulent economic environment, according to Nationwide’s eighth annual Advisor Authority survey , powered by the Nationwide Retirement Institute.

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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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Complete Guide to Google Shopping Ad Extensions, Annotations & Labels for 2023

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G oogle Shopping Ad extensions, annotations & labels are additional contents displayed on Google Shopping ads, apart from the title, price, image & store name, which help your ads stand out in the auction, while enticing shoppers to click on your product ads over your competition. Special offers, reviews & ratings, local inventory ads, sales annotations, price drop annotations, shipping labels, and return policies are additional pieces of information that can be enabled for your Goog

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AM Best Affirms Credit Ratings of Subsidiaries of CUNA Mutual Holding Company

Wink Intel

OLDWICK, N.J.–( BUSINESS WIRE )– AM Best has affirmed the Financial Strength Rating (FSR) of A (Excellent) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Ratings (Long-Term ICR) of “a+” (Excellent) of CMFG Life Insurance Company (CMFG Life) and MEMBERS Life Insurance Company (MEMBERS Life). Both companies are life/health subsidiaries of CUNA Mutual Holding Company (CUNA Mutual) and collectively referred to as CMFG Life Group.

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Best’s Special Report: U.S. Life/Annuity Industry Posts 25% Net Income Increase in Nine-Month 2022 Period

Wink Intel

OLDWICK, N.J.–( BUSINESS WIRE )–The U.S. life/annuity industry reported a 25% increase in net income during the first nine months of 2022, to $31.4 billion from $25.2 billion, according to a new AM Best report, This financial review is detailed in a new Best’s Special Report , “First Look: Nine-Month 2022 Life/Annuity Financial Results,” and the data is derived from companies’ nine-month 2022 interim statutory statements that were received as of Dec. 1, representing an estimated 9

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Jackson Releases Proprietary Research on Retirement Spending Attitudes of the “Golden Generation”

Wink Intel

Jackson Releases Proprietary Research on Retirement Spending Attitudes of the “Golden Generation”. Findings demonstrate pension owners have a propensity toward annuities; reveal opportunity to better educate retirees on the value of guaranteed income solutions. December 06, 2022 04:05 PM Eastern Standard Time. LANSING, Mich.–( BUSINESS WIRE )– Jackson National Life Insurance Company (Jackson ® ), the main operating subsidiary of Jackson Financial Inc.

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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.