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OCTOBER 1, 2022

Over the past 184 years, The Procter & Gamble Co. (P&G) has grown to become one of the world’s largest consumer goods manufacturers, with worldwide revenue of more than $76 billion in 2021 and more than 100,000 employees. Its brands are household names, including Charmin, Crest, Dawn, Febreze, Gillette, Olay, Pampers, and Tide. In summer 2022, P&G sealed a multiyear partnership with Microsoft to transform P&G’s digital manufacturing platform.

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OCTOBER 27, 2022

Assembling a team takes more than just finding candidates with the right keywords on their resumes — company culture, soft skills, and communication styles are key to putting together the right combination of talent to help a company grow. And when it comes to an emerging field like competitive intelligence, figuring out where to look for the right hires can be a challenge.

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Smart Data Collective

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Artificial intelligence is drastically changing the future of finance. Financial institutions spent over $10.1 billion on AI last year. One of the many ways that AI is being leveraged in finance is by helping improve the experience of investors. Modern investors enjoy a much smoother trading experience than their predecessors. Thanks to the invention of the internet, everything from conducting trades to downloading comprehensive reports can be completed almost instantly.

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Chris Webb BI

OCTOBER 13, 2022

If you’re monitoring activity in Power BI, for example using Log Analytics , you’ll know that you can capture the DAX queries generated by your published Power BI reports. How do you make sense of them though? You may want to know which tables, columns or measures are being used by a query – maybe so you can work out which ones aren’t being used and can be deleted.

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OCTOBER 28, 2022

Love it or hate it – emails remain the undisputed, most powerful tool for business communication in the world. With over 4 billion global users checking their emails daily and an average ROI of 3600% , there’s simply no room for debate on this matter. Just to put it into perspective, in 2020 there were 40 times more emails sent and received than the entire world population.

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CIO

OCTOBER 27, 2022

It wouldn’t be far-fetched to call ERP (enterprise resource planning) the brain of an organization’s IT infrastructure. After all, an ERP system streamlines, standardizes, and integrates a wide range of vital business processes across diverse business functions. Implementing an ERP solution ranks among the most capex-intensive projects any IT leader will undertake.

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OCTOBER 20, 2022

As we inch closer to the end of another month, you know what that means — a brand new episode of Into the Fray: The Competitive Intelligence Podcast has arrived!

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Smart Data Collective

OCTOBER 16, 2022

Artificial intelligence is driving a number of changes in the financial sector. We pointed out that AI has created new opportunities for investors purchasing real estate stocks. However, it is also creating unique trading opportunities for those using nontraditional investing decisions. One of the ways that smart investors can use AI is with short-selling.

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Chris Webb BI

OCTOBER 10, 2022

It’s very easy to get confused between a Live connections and DirectQuery mode in Power BI: the customers I work with frequently get them mixed up, partly because they are similar concepts, partly because other BI tools use the term “live connection” to refer to what Power BI calls DirectQuery mode. In this post I will explain the differences between these two terms.

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OCTOBER 5, 2022

You can’t improve what you can’t measure. By choosing the right digital marketing KPIs, you can track if your marketing campaigns move a needle and learn what content needs to be optimized to perform better. Let’s explore the core digital marketing KPIs that can help you accomplish your goals. What are Digital Marketing KPIs? Digital marketing KPIs are used to determine the success of your marketing campaigns.

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OCTOBER 27, 2022

When my father immigrated to the United Kingdom nearly 50 years ago, he was motivated to create a better life for himself and his family, and prove to his father back home that starting over in a new country was worth it. My dad worked three to four jobs at a time to support himself and start building a new life. Although incredibly challenging, these hardships shaped the person he became, and paid off for my family.

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CIO

OCTOBER 6, 2022

As an IT leader, being able to foster innovation not only benefits the IT itself, with greater efficiency, effectiveness and value, but the organization it serves and you personally, as it illustrates your ability to be an internal agent of change, a true business partner, and an asset at the strategy table. 1. Define and articulate your definition of IT innovation.

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OCTOBER 26, 2022

This blog is a follow-up to our October 2021 analysis on Leidos. Leidos continues to eat the candy of many of their competitors. Whether you see this as the good candy or bad candy, they seem to be happy to eat it all. Yes, they even eat the candy corn. Read on to refresh your knowledge of the big bad boogeyman – Leidos. Leidos and their customer portfolio…then and now.

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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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OCTOBER 8, 2022

Cloud technology is changing some of the most core aspects of our lives. A growing number of students are finding ways to leverage the cloud to improve their learning experience. Education Technology Magazine has published an article on some of the most surprising ways that cloud technology is changing academia. Most of their focus was on their focus has been on the benefits of using cloud technology from the standpoint of educators.

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Chris Webb BI

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Something I do all the time when performance tuning Power BI is use SQL Server Profiler to monitor query and refresh activity. There’s a handy external tool that lets you open up Profiler with a connection to Power BI Desktop; if you’re using Power BI Premium you can also connect Profiler up to a published dataset using the XMLA Endpoint.

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OCTOBER 1, 2022

Metaverse, a concept that Meta (ex-Facebook) created hype about in 2021, has attracted a humongous amount of attention. Companies from all over the world, whether big or small, are trying to explore opportunities to onboard this technology to keep up with the cutthroat competition in their respective industries. However, Metaverse is not the only universe that the world is familiar with today.

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OCTOBER 18, 2022

Not so long ago, many startups found it easy to attract significant venture capital investment. However, investors today expect to see sophisticated user-attraction models and established growth trajectories from even seed-stage startups , making lead generation mission-critical for businesses hoping to secure additional investment. The good news? Lead generation has matured immensely as a marketing discipline over the past decade, with more tools and data available than ever before.

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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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OCTOBER 10, 2022

What is transformational leadership? The transformational leadership approach encourages, inspires, and motivates employees to innovate and create the change necessary to shape the future success of the company. This is accomplished by setting an example at the executive level through authenticity, a strong sense of corporate culture, employee ownership, and independence in the workplace.

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Intelligence Node

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Table of Contents Gearing Up for the 2022 Holiday Shopping Season A Blast from the Past: Looking Back at the 2021 Holiday Shopping Season 2022 Holiday Shopping Trends & Predictions. The post 6 Retail Trends that will Dominate the 2022 Holiday Shopping Season appeared first on Blog.

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Smart Data Collective

OCTOBER 1, 2022

We have previously talked about ways that big data is changing the world of sports. Formula 1 teams are among those most affected. Ever since the Oakland A’s switched their recruitment policy from a players’ running speed and strength to a more sophisticated and nuanced look at the on-base slugging percentage, the world of sports has become more and more accustomed to utilizing sports analytics in their team-building.

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Chris Webb BI

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Do you have a a large dataset in Power BI Premium or Premium Per User? Do you have more than six tables that take a significant amount of time to refresh? If so, you may be able to speed up the performance of your dataset’s refresh by increasing the number of tables that are refreshed in parallel, using a feature that was released in August 2022 but which you may have missed.

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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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OCTOBER 14, 2022

Were the hieroglyphs of Ancient Egypt humanity’s original form of “big data” collection? Many people believe that cave paintings were made specifically to record and store vast amounts of complex information, including things like maps, astronomical charts, and population data. It makes sense: human instinct has long sought to organize and understand the world that surrounds us.

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OCTOBER 10, 2022

Are you still relying on old-school link building strategies to improve your rankings ? If so, chances are you’re not seeing much success. This guide will show you 20 strategies to gain more high-quality backlinks and brand mentions from various channels and relevant sites. Tactics like guest blogging, blog commenting, forum discussions, Quora answers, and promoting content on social media still work to a degree.

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CIO

OCTOBER 21, 2022

When Curt Garner became Chipotle’s first CIO in 2015, the only technology used for online restaurant ordering was, “believe it or not,” a fax machine, he says. Seven years later, the Newport Beach, Calif.-based company is piloting a system with a robotic arm dubbed “Chippy” that prepares the fast-casual chain’s famed fried salt-and-lime chips homemade every day without human labor, with the aim of tailoring output to the daily needs of each restaurant.

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Intelligence Node

OCTOBER 30, 2022

Despite rapid technological progress, most businesses miss out on lucrative sales. They struggle to decode what’s working and what isn’t and find it hard to deploy all of the contextual. The post How to Dominate Retail with Omnichannel Pricing appeared first on Blog.

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OCTOBER 27, 2022

The fast-paced world of cybersecurity waits for none, and even seasoned professionals can find that years have passed them by if they take a short hiatus and stop staying up to date. Given the nature of this sector, it’s often compared with statecraft, with the constantly evolving threat matrix making it essential to stay on top of developments, and regularly upskill in order to better respond to challenges.

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Chris Webb BI

OCTOBER 24, 2022

A few weeks ago I wrote a post showing how you can use the new EvaluateAndLog DAX function to diagnose performance problems relating to the use of the Switch function. Did you know that calculation groups can experience similar performance problems though? In some scenarios limited evaluation takes place for all calculation items, not just the one you expect; luckily you can use EvaluateAndLog to diagnose this too.

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OCTOBER 26, 2022

Achieving dependable and ongoing business growth can seem like a pretty big challenge, perhaps even impossible when the global business ecosystem is in a state of economic turbulence, with the threat of a major recession expected to hit in 2023. McKinsey reports that about 25% of companies don’t grow at all , and between 2010 and 2019, only one out of every eight companies saw annual revenue growth of 10% or more.

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