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AUGUST 25, 2022

Digital geopolitics, emanating from cross-country politics, is rapidly becoming an issue that multinational CIOs must step up to lead, according to Gartner. Gartner predicts that by 2026 about 70% of multinational enterprises will adjust the countries in which they operate by hedging to reduce their geopolitical exposure. The research firm defines geopolitics as the geographic influence on power relationships in international relations.

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AUGUST 29, 2022

For the past forty years CIOs have labored to retrofit, rearchitect, and ultimately replace underfunded and underappreciated legacy infrastructures in hopes of delivering the full benefits associated with periodically occurring waves of transformative emerging technologies. Debate now rages in IT and digital communities regarding what will be the seismic technological shift of the 2020s.

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Chris Webb BI

AUGUST 22, 2022

If you aren’t active on Twitter or LinkedIn (or you don’t spend a lot of time on them) you may not have heard about the new EvaluateAndLog() function. It’s not documented yet and not mentioned on any of the official blogs, but you can read about it in the last two posts on Jeffrey Wang’s blog here: Introduce the DAX EvaluateAndLog Function.

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AUGUST 5, 2022

Everyone needs a source of energy to sustain life and stay productive. A person needs food, cars need fuel, Instagram influencers need likes, and businesses need leads. But to get such “nutrition”, you need to constantly act: buy food for cooking, come to the gas station, write posts. The same thing happens with leads: to find them and close a deal, you need to perform an extensive search.

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In our latest edition of Navigating ESG Comms Through the Cosmos - Scorpio Edition, 3BL embraces the perspective of one of the zodiac's most misunderstood signs: Scorpio. While this sign often has a darker view of the world, they do not shy away from shining a light on controversial topics. This month we take a deep dive into corporate pullback of DEI and how companies can utilize astrological advice to reinvent its social impact communication.

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Smart Data Collective

AUGUST 30, 2022

The market for cloud technology is booming. Companies spent over $405 billion on cloud services last year. The sudden growth is not surprising, because the benefits of the cloud are incredible. Enterprise cloud technology applications are the future industry standard for corporations. Cloud computing has found its way into many business scenarios and is a relatively new concept for businesses.

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Intelligence Node

AUGUST 29, 2022

What to expect this spooky retail season As retailers worldwide work their way through the remainder of 2022, it’s time to brace for the big leagues. The major holidays of. The post The Gore and Glamor of Halloween Trends in 2022 appeared first on Blog.

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CIO

AUGUST 16, 2022

Elaborating on some points from my previous post on building innovation ecosystems, here’s a look at how digital twins , which serve as a bridge between the physical and digital domains, rely on historical and real-time data, as well as machine learning models, to provide a virtual representation of physical objects, processes, and systems. Keith Bentley of software developer Bentley Systems describes digital twins as the biggest opportunity for IT value contribution to the physical infrastructu

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Chris Webb BI

AUGUST 29, 2022

So far in this series (see part 1 , part 2 and part 3 ) I’ve looked at how you can create a Power Automate custom connector that uses the Power BI Enhanced Refresh API to kick off a dataset refresh. That’s only half the story though: once the refresh has been started you need to know if it has finished and, if so, whether it finished successfully or not.

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AUGUST 19, 2022

When was the last time you were pleased to see a well-crafted cold sales email? Yeah, we thought so. Emailing as a way of sales prospecting has gotten a bad rap over the last few years, and for a good reason. Overtly sales-y subject lines, phony personalization, bland content…even the salespeople themselves are tired of such emails. Let’s say you worked with your sales team to produce an accurate price quote.

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Smart Data Collective

AUGUST 30, 2022

Analytics technology is very important for modern business. Companies spent over $240 billion on big data analytics last year. That figure is expected to grow as more businesses discover its benefits. There are many important applications of data analytics technology. One of the most important is with helping companies set their prices correctly. Analytics Can Be Essential for Helping Companies with their Pricing Strategies.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 30, 2022

We’re all familiar with the “four Ps” of marketing: product, price, promotion, and place. Well, now we need to add a fifth P to the mix: privacy. Privacy compliance has become an essential part of modern-day marketing. Even though the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) went into effect in 2018, data collection and processing can still leave marketers feeling uncertain.

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Intelligence Node

AUGUST 23, 2022

Table of Contents: What is web scraping Types of web scrapers How do web scrapers work Uses of web scraping in retail How to pick a web scraping tool Final. The post What is Web Scraping in Retail? Uses and Benefits appeared first on Blog.

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CIO

AUGUST 18, 2022

With 65 million vaccine doses to administer at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, Luigi Guadagno, CIO of Walgreens, needed to know where to send them. To find out, he queried Walgreens’ data lakehouse, implemented with Databricks technology on Microsoft Azure. “We leveraged the lakehouse to understand the moment,” the CIO says. For Guadagno, the need to match vaccine availability with patient demand came at the right moment, technologically speaking.

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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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Chris Webb BI

AUGUST 21, 2022

If you’ve read part 1 or part 2 of this series you’ll know how you can create a Power Automate custom connector to call the Power BI Enhanced Refresh API and get fine-grained control over your refreshes. In this post I will take a look at the two parameters in the Enhanced Refresh API for datasets that use incremental refresh : applyRefreshPolicy and effectiveDate.

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AUGUST 17, 2022

With many business ventures, you have to invest a lot of money upfront without any guarantee that your business will succeed. By choosing dropshipping, you don’t have to risk all your money — you can get started with a minuscule budget and by investing only a few hours of your time weekly. First-time entrepreneurs often prefer this business model to others — it’s just easy to get started and doesn’t require paying for a warehouse or showroom.

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Smart Data Collective

AUGUST 4, 2022

A growing number of businesses are relying on big data technology to improve productivity and address some of their most pressing challenges. Global companies are projected to spend over $297 billion on big data by 2030. Data technology has proven to be remarkably helpful for many businesses. However, companies also encounter a number of challenges as they try to leverage the benefits of big data.

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Zoominfo

AUGUST 24, 2022

Go-to-market (GTM) tech stacks are complicated — and for good reason. Modern sales and marketing teams need various tools to help them do their jobs. With the right tools you can create complete, 360-degree customer views that make running targeted campaigns and personalized sales motions easier. Unfortunately, problems arise when too many apps produce, use, and store disparate data points on the same leads and accounts.

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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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Vable

AUGUST 9, 2022

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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CIO

AUGUST 1, 2022

Concerns about a looming recession have not derailed the booming IT job market. In the first half of this year, 115,000 new IT jobs were added, according to consulting firm Janco Associates. Even with inflation, high energy costs, and the invasion of Ukraine, IT hiring continued at a record-setting pace, but keeping tech talent still poses challenges.

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Chris Webb BI

AUGUST 14, 2022

In part 1 of this series I showed how you could create a very simple custom connector for Power Automate that allows you to call the Power BI Enhanced Refresh API. However, I didn’t show what I think is the main reason you’d want to build a custom connector: the ability to refresh specific tables or partitions in a dataset rather than the entire dataset.

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AUGUST 3, 2022

Among the industries that remained profitable amidst the pandemic was print on demand (POD), currently valued at USD 4.90 billion. The rapid shift to online shopping, as well as the clamor for personalization in recent years, has made POD an attractive option for marketers. Projections for the print on demand market show that it will continue to grow in the coming years.

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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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Smart Data Collective

AUGUST 11, 2022

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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Zoominfo

AUGUST 22, 2022

Ask any seasoned marketer and they’ll tell you that strong segmentation is the key ingredient to efficient, successful campaigns. From the marketer’s point of view: you get more precise with your messaging and personalization, gain a better view of your total addressable market (TAM) , spend your budget more efficiently, and improve your reporting. From the audience’s point of view: they won’t get bombarded with irrelevant content and messages, but will receive content that’s actually of interes

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IT Business Edge

AUGUST 25, 2022

What do you think about when you hear the words “the future of finance?” For most people, images of mobile payments, online banking, and other cutting-edge technologies come to mind. But what about decentralization? If you’re unfamiliar with the term, decentralized finance (DeFi) is a subset of blockchain technology that focuses on financial applications powered by distributed ledgers.

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CIO

AUGUST 18, 2022

The nonsense was tucked away in a PowerPoint slide, as so much nonsense is. “We’ll help you institute best practices, followed by a program of continuous improvement,” the offending bullet said. Now, I’m willing to shrug at a bit of harmless puffery from time to time. And maybe this puffery was harmless. But I don’t think so. As my pappy used to say, ‘If someone sells this and someone else buys it, they have something in common: They’re both schmucks.

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