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Using ODBC in Excel to Create Sales Reports After Mining Sales Data

Smart Data Collective

Data mining technology has become very important for modern businesses. Companies use data mining technology for a variety of purposes. One of the most important is collecting revenue data to draft financial statements, forecast future sales and make decisions to address revenue shortfalls. These factors are why companies will spend over $12 billion on data analytics for marketing solutions by 2027.

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How to Conduct Competitor Analysis

Cipher

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Let the Voice of the Customer Be Heard: An Interview with Jeff Ernst

Weidert Group

When a customer sees an advertisement, whether it’s an online ad or a commercial on TV, they know they’re being pitched to. They know the company behind the pitch is going to emphasize the highs and ignore the lows. But when they can turn to someone who’s actually done business with that company and get a straight answer about their experience ? That’s effective, and that’s why word of mouth is so powerful.

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Instagram Marketing Will Make or Break Businesses in 2022

Netbasequid

Instagram is the second most popular social network after Facebook. More than one billion people use the visual-first social network monthly, and 500 million people post on Instagram Stories every day. There has been a surge in brands developing a presence on the platform. Oberlo estimates 71% of US businesses have a presence there, in fact. What’s the point of using the platform, and should your business also use 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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Leverage the Full Potential of Your Oracle Cloud Applications Data

Splash BI

On-Demand Webinar. Leverage the Full Potential of Your Oracle Cloud Application Data. Jump to abstract. Webinar Abstract. Whether you have recently migrated to Oracle Cloud Applications, or you’ve been live for a while, there is no denying that valuable enterprise data is stowed away in the Oracle SaaS environment and other non-integrated systems. Extracting data from Oracle SaaS environments using OTBI/BI Publisher etc., has been proven to be adequate for point-in-time needs, but over time, ent

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Selenium is a Great Machine Learning Testing Tool for Web Developers

Smart Data Collective

Machine learning technology has led to some major changes in the world of online c ommerce. Many web developers are using machine learning to streamline many aspects of the design process. They are also using AI to improve the quality of their designs and create more engaging features that wouldn’t have been possible with traditional JavaScript or other programming language code.

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AIG Names Investment Chief for Corebridge Spinoff

Wink Intel

American International Group has picked Sabra Purtill to oversee investments for Corebridge Financial — an AIG spinoff that could come to life with about $256 billion in invested assets. The New York-based insurer is preparing to use Corebridge as the vehicle for turning the AIG Life & Retirement business into a separate company. Click HERE to read the full story via ThinkAdvisor.

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Should You Quit Your Job? Here’s What the Data Says

Zoominfo

You’ve probably heard about the Great Resignation at least a hundred times by now. If you aren’t one of the 47 million people who quit their job last year , I bet you’ve taken a second to consider it. For many folks, thinking about leaving is chalked up to a few key variables. According to a recent Pew Research Center survey , these include low pay, lack of opportunity, and a lack of respect.

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Eagle Life Insurance Company® Announces New Indices and Growth Potential Options for FIA Products

Wink Intel

WEST DES MOINES, Iowa–( BUSINESS WIRE )–Eagle Life Insurance Company ® , a provider of fixed and fixed index annuities, has announced several enhancements designed to broaden diversification options and boost growth opportunities on its fixed index annuity portfolio. New indices and rider enhance growth, diversification options. Eagle Life is adding two new index options and a Performance Rate Rider to the Eagle Select ® Focus Series and Eagle Select ® Income Focus fixed index annu

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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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5 Trends Driving Profitable Business Transformation

Dataversity

In today’s post-pandemic business world, only one thing is certain: change. For companies, this puts a bigger onus than ever before on agility, adaptability, and flexibility. It also means companies need to step out of their comfort zones and try new approaches and methods. Companies will need to implement new methodologies and tools to support […].

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Symetra Introduces Accumulator Ascent IUL

Wink Intel

BELLEVUE, Wash.–( BUSINESS WIRE )–Symetra today announced the introduction of a new version of its Accumulator indexed universal life insurance (IUL) product — Symetra Accumulator Ascent IUL. The flexible-premium adjustable life insurance policy with index-linked interest options provides death benefit protection plus policy cash value growth potential that can help with future income needs.

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Top 11 Big Data Challenges and How to Overcome Them

Data Hut

As the name suggests, the challenges in big data usually occur in handling the vast data, storing, and analyzing the set of information spread across various data stores. And these challenges need to be dealt with effectively so that it does not turn out to be a costly mistake for the organization. As per a study by , Gartner , the average financial impact of bad data quality on an organization is $9.7 million per year.

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Munich Re Life US Enters Into a Definitive Agreement to Acquire Clareto, a Health Information Exchange That Provides Record Retrieval Services to the Life Insurance Industry

Wink Intel

NEW YORK–( BUSINESS WIRE )–Munich Re Life US (Munich Re) today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire MedVirginia, Inc. d/b/a Clareto, one of the leading medical record retrieval companies for the life insurance industry. Through its partnership with more than 25 health information exchanges (HIEs) and electronic health record (EHR) software vendors, Clareto has widespread access to EHRs which will revolutionize the life insurance underwriting process.

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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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Smarten Announces Sentiment Analysis Capability Designed for Business Users!

Elegant BI

Smarten is pleased to announce the addition of Sentiment Analysis features and functionality to its innovative, augmented analytics solution. Sentiment Analysis enables businesses with easy-to-use tools that provide insight into what customers, stakeholders and others are thinking, thereby allowing business teams to improve products and services. Sentiment Analysis can take your business to the next level by helping you to understand what your customers and potential customers think, understand

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Pacific Life to Discontinue New Sales of Pacific PremierCare Choice and Pacific PremierCare Advantage Life Insurance Products

Wink Intel

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif.–( BUSINESS WIRE )–Effective May 2, 2022, Pacific Life’s Pacific PremierCare suite of products will no longer be available for new sales. This includes Pacific PremierCare ® Choice one-year, five-year, 10-year, and lifetime premium whole life insurance products with long-term care (LTC) benefits 1 and Pacific PremierCare Advantage Universal Life Insurance with Long-Term Care Benefits 2 in California.

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Techniques to Ensure Successful Augmented Analytics Implementation!

Elegant BI

If your business is ready to implement a BI tool and augmented analytics solution, there are some things you will need to do first. If you plan correctly, you will enjoy a successful implementation. If you do not perform an assessment, understand your requirements and choose the right option, you are likely to fail in your initiative and your ROI and TCO will not meet expectations.

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Remember when there were only 12?

Wink Intel

As a part of my job, I try to take complex indexing methods on indexed insurance products, and describe them in easy-to-understand terms. (Yes, I read sample contracts and try to communicate them in plain language!). I just want to say that I cannot stand low interest rate environments because they result in more complex indexing methods!! ARGH! (In a world of complicated products, we don’t need help making things more complicated.).

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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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AIG Life & Retirement Introduces 5-Year Index Annuity for New York

Wink Intel

NEW YORK–( BUSINESS WIRE )–AIG Life & Retirement, a leading provider of annuities, today announced the launch of Power Index 5 NY SM , a 5-year index annuity developed exclusively for New York and the latest addition to The Power Series of Index Annuities ®. Power Index 5 NY is issued by The United States Life Insurance Company in the City of New York (US Life), a member company of American International Group, Inc (NYSE: AIG).