mention
JANUARY 11, 2023
LinkedIn is a powerful social networking tool that business professionals can use to grow their businesses. The goal of this post is to help business owners and professionals like you understand the impact of LinkedIn. It can build your online presence, drive attention to your brand, and even boost leads and sales. For example, did you know that 98% of salespersons with more than 5000 connections outperform their peers?
CIO
JANUARY 20, 2023
Business intelligence definition Business intelligence (BI) is a set of strategies and technologies enterprises use to analyze business information and transform it into actionable insights that inform strategic and tactical business decisions. BI tools access and analyze data sets and present analytical findings in reports, summaries, dashboards, graphs, charts, and maps to provide users with detailed intelligence about the state of the business.
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Smart Data Collective
JANUARY 16, 2023
Companies around the world are projected to spend over $300 billion on machine learning technology by 2030. There are a growing number of reasons that companies are investing in machine learning, but digital marketing is at the top of the list. SEO, in particular, relies more heavily on machine learning these days. More Companies Are Discovering the Benefits of Using Machine Learning for SEO A few years ago, we wrote an article pointing out that machine learning is rewriting the rules of SEO.
Crayon
JANUARY 30, 2023
As a Customer Success Manager here at Crayon, I have seen over 100 CI programs in action. Nearly all of them have the same success criteria: “Enabling the sales team to win competitive deals and transforming their approach to the competition from reactive to proactive”. At a high level, these are the ideal criteria for a well-run CI program—but what does success look like at a more granular, day-to-day level?
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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
Chris Webb BI
JANUARY 2, 2023
The new DAX window functions (announced here , more details on Jeffrey Wang’s blog here and here ) have generated a lot of excitement already – they are extremely powerful. However one important benefit of using them has not been mentioned so far: they can give you much better performance in DirectQuery mode because they make it more likely that aggregations are used.
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mention
JANUARY 16, 2023
Are you looking to maximize your engagement rate and reach on Instagram in 2023? The timing of your posts can have a significant impact on how many people see your content on social media. But with so many variables to consider, it can be tough to know exactly when the best times to post are. That’s where our interactive tool comes in! Here at Mention, we have analyzed 110 million Instagram posts from 1 million Instagram users to help you find the most effective times to post on Instagram
CIO
JANUARY 23, 2023
With a career path that wound through R&D, product development, advanced supply chain, and technology, Praveen Jonnala is well positioned to lead a global IT organization as well as take the reins of operations and other core business functions. Jonnala stepped in as CIO at network infrastructure provider CommScope two years ago after more than a dozen years spent at the company in various roles leading business and technology transformation.
Smart Data Collective
JANUARY 9, 2023
In today’s world, data is more widely available to businesses than ever before. Whether it’s data about customer demographics , product colors that tend to sell better, or which cold email scripts are the most effective, organizations have the power to utilize data to help them inform their decision-making process in a variety of ways. However, while the immense amount of data available to organizations unlocks new possibilities — it can also make cleaning organizing, interpreting, and analyzing
Crayon
JANUARY 25, 2023
In the world of sports, a team that wins three or more championships in the span of only a few years is considered a dynasty. Today, Crayon is celebrating a dynasty of our own in the competitive intelligence market. Crayon has, for the third year in a row, been named a leader in the PMA Pulse.
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3BL’s in-house experts merge the celestial wisdom of astrology with current environmental, social, governance (ESG) communication trends to offer a unique perspective and practical advice on sharing your company’s commitments effectively. 3BL’s new “Navigating ESG Comms through the Cosmos” series begins with Virgo season! In this edition, we delve into: How businesses have responded to environmental disasters over the past few months and why you can expect a continued focus on the climate crisis
Chris Webb BI
JANUARY 29, 2023
Dynamic M parameters are incredibly useful in Power BI when using DirectQuery mode because they allow you to pass values from your report direct to your data source query, bypassing Power BI’s own SQL (or whatever query language your source uses) generation layer. However it isn’t obvious how to pass any value you want: dynamic M parameters must be bound to slicers or filters, and they must be bound to tables in your dataset, which means that at first glance it seems like you can onl
Aqute Intelligence
JANUARY 19, 2023
We have blogged before about competitive intelligence companies, but we did not discuss a related type of competitive intelligence provider: competitive intelligence software companies. Below is our current list of competitive intelligence software specialists. We have focused on companies that specifcally target competitive inelligence, rather than more general software including social media monitoring, press monitoring or business analytics, that also plays some role in competitive intelligen
mention
JANUARY 18, 2023
What product will you buy the next time you are in a supermarket — the one belonging to a respected brand or a no-name? If you don’t want to risk it or experiment, you’d rather go for Coke instead of Coke-like substitute, or Lays instead of chips you’ve never heard of. You’d often pay more for the products you know from TV advertisements. The way you think and how you feel about a product will often influence your buying decision.
CIO
JANUARY 12, 2023
First Tech Credit Union is a San Jose-based financial institution with more than $16 billion in assets. As the eighth largest in the country, it primarily serves tech companies and their employees, but still has a lot of manual processes in place. “We’re very early in our automation journey,” says Mike Upton, the organization’s digital and technology officer.
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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
Smart Data Collective
JANUARY 2, 2023
Data analytics technology is becoming more important for marketing than ever before. Companies are projected to spend over $27 billion on marketing analytics by 2031. One of the many ways that marketers are leveraging data analytics is SEO. Data-driven SEO can be very beneficial for any company trying to boost organic search traffic to their product pages.
Crayon
JANUARY 23, 2023
When your win/loss data is disconnected from your competitive intelligence tool, trying to understand your differentiators is like trying to appreciate the Mona Lisa from a mere 6 inches away — you kind of get it, but it’s nowhere close to the experience of seeing the full picture (or painting in this case).
Chris Webb BI
JANUARY 24, 2023
SQLBits is happening again this March at the Celtic Manor resort in Wales. It’s the largest in-person Microsoft data technology conference in Europe and probably now the world; it’s also a lot of fun and something I would never miss. I imagine that a lot of you reading this post feel the same way that I do about SQLBits, but it occurred to me that if you’re relatively new in the world of Power BI you might not have heard of it and might not know why it’s such a great even
Zoominfo
JANUARY 31, 2023
Today’s sales teams have the ability to use tools that would simply blow the mind of someone who first came up in the industry just 10 years ago. But despite the speed of innovation in sales tech, there are still large corporations and small startups alike whose main sources of information for targeting are Google, basic contact-scraping software, and LinkedIn Sales Navigator.
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.
mention
JANUARY 4, 2023
Are you thinking of starting a business? If so, there are a few things you should take into consideration before taking the plunge. In this blog post, we’ll go over 15 things every potential business owner should think about before getting started. We’ll cover the serious and technical aspects of starting a business. But we’ll also look at essential issues like having the right mindset and setting meaningful goals.
CIO
JANUARY 16, 2023
There’s no doubt that DevOps has helped many IT organizations achieve their goal of delivering applications and services faster and better than traditional software development processes. Unfortunately, while some IT leaders do a fine job of trumpeting DevOps’ benefits, their teams are headed in the wrong direction , embracing half-baked or completely wrong tools and practices.
Smart Data Collective
JANUARY 15, 2023
Data visualization tools have become very useful for many businesses. Companies use data visualization for trend mapping, data contextualization and various forms of business optimization. Therefore, it should come as no surprise that global companies are projected to spend over $10.2 billion on data visualization technology within the next three years.
Crayon
JANUARY 19, 2023
Your sales team just won a competitive deal. It was a taxing evaluation: multiple demos, a trial period, extensive pricing conversations—the works. Until the account executive on your sales team got that long-awaited email, they really had no idea which solution the buyer would select.
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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.
Chris Webb BI
JANUARY 8, 2023
I’ve blogged about the “dynamic data sources” error and the Web.Contents function several times (most recently here ), main post here , but never about the fact that you can encounter the same error when working with OData data sources and the OData.Feed function. More importantly, while it seems like the solution to the problem is the same for both functions this is not the case!
Aqute Intelligence
JANUARY 31, 2023
Based on our fuller list of competitive intelligence companies, below is the list of companies based in the US or with a mostly US focus - as far as one can judge by their websites. If we have missed anyone out, please tweet @aquteintel AIM , US Aqute Intelligence , US (this is us, woohoo!) Aurora WDC , US Competia , Canada/Switzerland Fletcher/CSI , US, UK Fuld & Co , US, UK, Philippines Inovis, US Intelligentsia , UK, global offices Tyson Heinz , US Proactive Worldwide , US/China Rauch Ass
mention
JANUARY 25, 2023
Creating the perfect Instagram caption is no easy task. You need to channel your most creative self into making something witty and eye-catching to encapsulate the photograph you are posting in just a few words. Of course, finding these magical words can be difficult. However, with the right motivation and some helpful tips on crafting the ultimate caption (emojis included), you’ll develop the art of writing captions that will leave your followers wanting more.
CIO
JANUARY 17, 2023
The CIO role continues to evolve, changing as dramatically as the technology it manages and maintains. Moreover, the pace of the chief IT position’s transformation seems to be accelerating — likewise mirroring the speed of change in the tech stack. Consequently, tech executives must lead, manage, and work differently than they did in the past. How so?
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Shifting to an account-based marketing (ABM) strategy can be both exciting and challenging. Well-implemented ABM motions build engagement with high-value accounts and drive impactful campaigns that resonate with your audience. But where do you begin, and how do you progress from crawling to running? Watch now as Demand Gen experts delve into the essentials of each stage of the ABM process.
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