December, 2022

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Podcast Episode: A Practical Guide to Competitive Intelligence

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Tis’ the season for a brand new episode of Into the Fray: The Competitive Intelligence Podcast !

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IT leaders face reality check on hybrid productivity

CIO

CIO Ted Ross believes the honeymoon is over for breakneck productivity when it comes to hybrid work, and he’s not the only one. Tech employees at the City of Los Angeles IT agency who were forced to work remotely in the early pandemic days were very efficient, Ross says. “Fully into the pandemic we had a 34% increase in project delivery,” he adds. But since then, productivity and innovation have waned, in part because of fading relationships between once in-person teams, along with a slew of new

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How Vulnerable Are Supply Chains to Hacking?

Smart Data Collective

It’s easy to sound paranoid when talking about cyber security. Threats actually are everywhere. In your local coffee shop. Lurking on the first page of your favorite search engine. In your email inbox. One small mistake can bring business empires to their knees. It happened to Marriot. It happened to Yahoo. It happened to the Irish healthcare system.

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Is Power BI A Semantic Layer?

Chris Webb BI

The short answer: yes. And it’s a metrics layer and a metrics store and it’s headless BI too for what it’s worth. I’ve been meaning to blog about this question for a long time now, for two reasons: Customers migrating to Power BI often ask me if Microsoft also has a product or service that can act as a semantic layer, so I need to explain that Power BI is already a semantic layer.

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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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5 Current Trends in Big Data for 2022 and Beyond

Smart Data Collective

The world of big data is constantly changing and evolving, and 2021 is no different. As we look ahead to 2022, there are four key trends that organizations should be aware of when it comes to big data: cloud computing, artificial intelligence, automated streaming analytics, and edge computing. Each of these trends will continue to shape the way companies use data in the coming years.

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Due diligence is ever more critical as the battle for cloud sovereignty intensifies

CIO

In the last few weeks, the IT industry has seen some very interesting activity from global hyperscale cloud providers surrounding their cloud sovereignty ambitions, and their scrutiny by the regulators covering some basics compliance requirements, like the European Union’s (EU) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) Firstly, AWS made a public pledge called the “AWS Digital Sovereignty Pledge”, consisting of a commitment to provide “the most advanced set of sovereignty controls and features

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Big Data Analytics in eLearning: Aspects Everyone Should Know

Smart Data Collective

With technological advancement, data revolutionizes many business processes. Experts assert that one of the leverages big businesses enjoy is using data to re-enforce the monopoly they have in the market. Big data is large chunks of information that cannot be dealt with by traditional data processing software. It needs to be analyzed with premium tech tools to deduce insights germane to user experience as well as scaling businesses.

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Lead Generation: Tips for Creating Effective Landing Pages

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Landing pages are a popular tool used in inbound marketing to attract customers and generate leads. But simply creating a landing page and waiting for the leads to come isn’t enough. You need to create effective landing pages that encourage a visitor to become a lead. What are landing pages? A landing page is a dedicated page that seeks to drive leads and conversions.

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Power BI DirectQuery Mode And Degenerate Dimensions

Chris Webb BI

A few weeks ago my colleague Dany Hoter wrote a post on the Azure Data Explorer blog about how using columns on fact tables as dimensions in DirectQuery mode can lead to errors in Power BI. You can read it here: [link]. In the post he mentioned that he could reproduce the same behaviour in SQL Server, so I thought it would be good to show an example of this to raise awareness of the issue because I think it’s one that anyone using DirectQuery mode on any data source is likely to run into.

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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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8 Social Media Trends & Their Impact on Marketers in 2023

Tinuiti

The social world moves fast and with all that’s happened in 2022, including economic headwinds and uncertainty of consumer demand, it’s time to keep your head on a swivel as we move into 2023. Trends are constantly changing, new platforms are emerging, and the competition is picking up… is your brand ready? We’ll help get […].

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5 Brands Making Strides to Unlock Retail Sustainability Amid Climate Change

Intelligence Node

A New Era of Sustainable Retail The final sprint leading up to the year 2023 has made for some powerful headlines in the realm of sustainability. With calls of ‘greenwashing’. The post 5 Brands Making Strides to Unlock Retail Sustainability Amid Climate Change appeared first on Blog.

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PepsiCo transforms for the digital era

CIO

For any IT leader new to an organization, gaining employee trust is paramount — especially when, like PepsiCo’s Athina Kanioura, you’ve been brought in to transform the way work gets done. Kanioura, who was hired away from Accenture two years ago to serve as the food and beverage multinational’s first chief strategy and transformation officer, says earning employee trust was one of her greatest challenges in those early months.

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How to Plan a Cybersecurity Strategy for Your Small Business

Smart Data Collective

Do you think a small business owner need not worry about cyberattacks? 46% of all cyberattacks impact businesses with less than 1000 employees. Small businesses have fewer resources to invest in the security paradigm. That’s why; hackers find it easy to attack such vulnerable systems instead of large corporations who have spent millions of dollars on cybersecurity.

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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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14 Foolproof Ways to Increase Email Engagement

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Building relationships with email subscribers is a lot like starting a new relationship in real life. The first date is exciting, but whether or not the relationship goes the distance is determined by what you do next. If you fail to maintain a high level of email engagement, your subscribers might ghost you and become inactive, or break up with you completely by unsubscribing.

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What’s New In Analysis Services 2022?

Chris Webb BI

There was a time when a new release of SQL Server – and therefore a new release of SQL Server Analysis Services – was the most exciting thing in the world for me. New functionality! New things to blog about! Not so now that my focus, and Microsoft’s, is on Power BI and we get cool new functionality there every month. All the same there are still a lot of people running SSAS on-premises and SQL Server 2022 has just been released, so what’s new and is it worth upgrading?

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Advertising on Walmart Marketplace: Ad Types & Tips [2023 Update]

Tinuiti

Amazon might have the lion’s share of inventory and sellers in the online marketplace space, but they’re not the only major player on the block. Despite some early challenges, Walmart Marketplace has made great strides in recent years, with more exciting updates on the near horizon. Walmart is the largest retailer in the US with […].

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15 Ways to be on Top of Google Search

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Seasoned SEO experts and beginners all have one thing in common – they all want to get their websites (or those of their clients) to the top of search engine results. Or, if they’ve already gotten there, they want to make sure they stay there. With so much competition and ever-evolving algorithms, it can be extremely challenging to get your website to the top of Google.

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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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The Top Cloud Security Threat Comes from Within

CIO

One of the biggest cloud security threats your company faces isn’t malicious. In fact, it originates from inside your IT organization. Accidental misconfigurations pose one of the leading security vulnerabilities IT organizations contend with in the cloud. According to a recent study , 79% of companies had experienced a cloud data breach in the past 18 months—and 67% of respondents had identified security misconfiguration as the top security threat.

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Discover the Power of Analytical Insights in Your Business Data

Smart Data Collective

Data analytics is not a new term, as it’s the same as interpreting information. It has been going on in various fields for many years and is now being incorporated into the business. The primary purpose is to predict or have future insights. Today, business data and analytical insights are the most sought-after to increase revenue and improve corporate decisions.

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10 Best Keyword Research Tools to Use in 2023

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While Google is getting better and better at search intent, you should get better at giving the best match for their searches. Keywords are important indicators of how people use to search. The exact match keywords are no longer precise matches, and they will now match with the intent of a search. You should focus on finding close variants of these exact match keywords to reach more people and grow organic traffic to your website.

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Eighteenth Blog Birthday: On The Question Of “Wouldn’t It Be Great If Power BI Did This?”

Chris Webb BI

Every year, on the anniversary of the first-ever post on this blog, I write a post reflecting on what has happened to me professionally in the past year or discussing a non-technical (but still work-related) subject. Two years ago I wrote a post about people who ask the question “Why don’t you add this one simple feature to Power BI?”, something which seems even more relevant now than when I first wrote it.

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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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8 Social Media Trends & Their Impact on Marketers in 2023

Tinuiti

Social 8 Social Media Trends & Their Impact on Marketers in 2023 By Tinuiti Team Dec 22 2022 The social world moves fast and with all that’s happened in 2022, including economic headwinds and uncertainty of consumer demand, it’s time to keep your head on a swivel as we move into 2023. Trends are constantly changing, new platforms are emerging , and the competition is picking up… is your brand ready?

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Bold 2023 Data Predictions

TDAN BI

Special thank you to Altair for providing the following set of bold predictions for 2023. The data world continues to change rapidly and you may want to consider these predictions when planning for the new year. The rise of generative AI startups: Generative artificial intelligence exploded in 2022. In this next year, we will see text […].

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Digital Transformation and the Evolving Role of CIOs

CIO

By Chet Kapoor, Chairman & CEO of DataStax Enterprises have been talking about digital transformation for quite a while. It’s about rethinking how we use technology to drive new or improved strategy, people, and operations to meet changing business and customer needs. But what does digital transformation mean for the CIO? How has their role evolved through the three stages of transformation, and what does this mean for the future?

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Cloud Technology is the Future of Medical Billing Software

Smart Data Collective

Cloud technology has upended the medical industry in recent years. Healthcare organizations around the world spend over $56.3 billion on cloud technology. Cloud computing offers a number of important benefits for healthcare providers. One of the biggest advantages of cloud technology is that it helps make medical billing more efficient. A cloud-based medical billing software program automates billing in order to help practices get paid faster, improve workflow efficiencies, help practice the IT

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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