CIO
OCTOBER 24, 2023
As CIOs prepare for the next wave of digital transformation, they must demonstrate shorter-term business impacts from technology investments and achieve larger innovation goals that evolve the organization’s business model. But perhaps more importantly, they must learn from their previous big digital wins — and avoid repeating all-too-frequent mistakes that cause transformations to fail or lag behind expectations.
Crayon
OCTOBER 24, 2023
If you visit Bob Boyle’s LinkedIn profile , you’ll see that he became a product marketing manager (PMM) in January 2023. But if you have a conversation with him, you’ll quickly realize that he started doing product marketing long before that.
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Smart Data Collective
OCTOBER 6, 2023
Data analytics technology has helped retail companies optimize their business models in a number of ways. One of the biggest benefits of data analytics is that it helps companies improve stability during times of uncertainty. There are inevitable ups and downs that every industry experiences, and recognizing these ebbs and flows can fundamentally impact your business.
mention
OCTOBER 4, 2023
4.8 billion people around the world use social media , making up approximately 59.9% of the global population. If you don’t have an online presence, you can’t reach your target audience and make them aware of your business. Social media makes it easy to get your online brand noticed , so you need to have one. With the right social media marketing plan, you can increase your online brand presence.
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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.
Chris Webb BI
OCTOBER 15, 2023
In the Power BI/Fabric community everyone is excited about the recent release of Semantic Link : the ability to analyse Power BI data easily using Python in Fabric notebooks. Sandeep Pawar has an excellent blog post here explaining what this is and why it’s so cool. Meanwhile in the Excel community, everyone is excited about the new integration of Python into Excel.
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CIO
OCTOBER 30, 2023
In today’s digitally transforming world, time is of the essence. Whether you’re looking to deliver a new product release, fix an issue, or enhance a service, the longer you make customers wait, the worse for your business. As you seek to boost agility and speed your organization’s digital transformation, there are some proven principles you can apply.
Zoominfo
OCTOBER 10, 2023
The rapid adoption of modern go-to-market (GTM) is creating immense opportunity for businesses in every sector and vertical. As companies in highly competitive industries look for new vectors to drive efficient and sustained growth, they’re increasingly turning to global markets. However, while the opportunities available in overseas expansion are remarkable, so too are the challenges of working with B2B data across international borders.
Smart Data Collective
OCTOBER 3, 2023
Healthcare providers are investing more heavily in big data technology, as they strive to deal with growing challenges such as declining operating margins and an increasingly complex regulatory environment. However, many healthcare providers lack the technology or knowledge to use data prudently. One study found that 56% of hospitals do not have any data analytics or governance strategies.
mention
OCTOBER 6, 2023
Here at Mention, we’d be the first to tell you how important digital marketing has become when it comes to doing business in the modern age. As more companies shift their marketing efforts online, looking beyond the ways to use various marketing channels and deeply examining the intricacies of social media PR and affiliate marketing , it’s critical that they also prioritize cybersecurity.
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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.
Chris Webb BI
OCTOBER 29, 2023
If you’re a fan of using Log Analytics for monitoring Power BI activity , then you may have noticed there’s some new data in the ApplicationContext column of the PowerBIDatasetsWorkspace table. Up until recently the ApplicationContext column only contained IDs that identify the report and the visual that generated a DAX query (something I blogged about here ); it now contains additional information on the type of Power BI report that generated the query and an ID for the user session
FedSavvy
OCTOBER 24, 2023
ThunderCat Technology is a Service-Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) delivering technology services and solutions to government organizations, educational institutions, and commercial companies. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, ThunderCat Technology employs about 125 personnel and primarily provides support in systems integration, IT solutions and services, data storage, networking, applications, cybersecurity, and big data.
CIO
OCTOBER 31, 2023
It’s no secret that banks and fintech companies must meet compliance and regulatory standards that are much stricter than what traditional tech companies are forced to comply with. The question becomes: How do you meet strict regulatory and compliance standards while keeping up with the rapid pace of innovation in technology? As the vice president of enterprise architecture and technology strategy at Discover Financial Services, I think about this question often as we work to design our tech sta
Zoominfo
OCTOBER 20, 2023
Research, outreach, reminders, and tracking all limit the time your sales team has to connect with prospects and solve their problems. And although email is an extremely effective communication channel, it’s also one of the most time-consuming. Email automation makes the job a lot easier — but your automated emails can’t waste the prospect’s time or come off as hollow or impersonal.
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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
Smart Data Collective
OCTOBER 8, 2023
Data breaches are becoming much more common these days. PC Magazine reports that 422 million people were affected by data breaches last year. Preliminary research suggests data breaches are going to be even worse this year. A growing number of companies are recognizing that they need to take proactive measures to help bolster their data security. Software companies are among those most heavily affected, so they are taking dramatic measures.
mention
OCTOBER 20, 2023
Your brand is important, so know it’s best to repurpose content for your business to reach new audiences. You search through your most popular blog posts and find ways to give more information to your existing customers and make something fresh for new clients. This one piece of information becomes more blog posts, white papers, social media posts, and YouTube videos.
Chris Webb BI
OCTOBER 22, 2023
Back in 2021 I wrote a post showing how you can link a DAX query generated by a Power BI report in Log Analytics to a visual in a Power BI report. In that post I showed how you can get the unique IDs for each visual in a report using Performance Analyzer, an approach which works but has drawbacks. Then, in 2022 I wrote another post showing how you can get the same IDs using the Power BI Embedded Analytics Playground, which again works but isn’t perfect.
Domo
OCTOBER 26, 2023
What about security? That’s the question on everyone’s minds when it comes to Domo’s generative AI capabilities. The allure of models like GPT-4 lies in their potential to significantly boost productivity and creativity. However, this enticing promise is accompanied by a cautionary tale. It’s important to note that these benefits come at a cost: the necessity of sending data to external servers for processing.
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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
CIO
OCTOBER 17, 2023
The cloud market has been a picture of maturity of late. The pecking order for cloud infrastructure has been relatively stable, with AWS at around 33% market share, Microsoft Azure second at 22%, and Google Cloud a distant third at 11%. (IBM, Oracle, and Salesforce are in the 2-3% range.) Revenue growth remains solid across the industry, but slowing somewhat, with none of the Big 3 outperforming the others enough to materially alter the balance of power.
Zoominfo
OCTOBER 19, 2023
More than ever, selling in today’s economy means discerning precious signals from a sea of noise. From VPs and CMOs to entry-level reps and account managers, everyone is inundated by data. Without a modern go-to-market strategy that can turn signals into action, the flood of data can mean greater administrative overhead, higher margins of error, and even lost revenue.
Smart Data Collective
OCTOBER 19, 2023
Many businesses use big data technology to bolster efficiency. One study from Zappia found that 97.2% of companies say that they use data analytics in some capacity. While only 24% call themselves data-driven, the figure is growing significantly. Big data is changing the business models of many organizations. However, many companies are still struggling to figure out how to utilize data analytics and AI properly.
mention
OCTOBER 13, 2023
Email marketing is one of the most powerful ways of reaching out to your audience. Unlike any other platforms in email marketing, you don’t have to depend on a third party to send out your emails. When you depend on any third-party platform like social media to market your business, you have to depend on them for your campaigns as well. Your followers will see your content as long as the social media platform decides to display it to them.
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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.
Chris Webb BI
OCTOBER 1, 2023
This week, one of my colleagues at Microsoft, Nat Van Gulck, showed me a cool new open-source tool he’s been working on to make VisOps for Power BI much easier: PBI Inspector. What is VisOps? I’ll admit I didn’t really know either, so being lazy I asked Nat to write a few paragraphs describing the project and why it will be useful: Great progress has been made over the years with software development CICD tooling and processes (aka DevOps), just not so much with BI report visua
Dataversity
OCTOBER 24, 2023
In the current economic environment, employee productivity, efficiency, and well-being have become even more critical to organizational success, mandating that leaders spend more time understanding and deriving insights from employees’ digital footprints and data. But too often, businesses make strategic decisions without factoring in workforce data.
CIO
OCTOBER 24, 2023
Diversity, equity, and inclusion have become important social issues. In the wake of the George Floyd and Breonna Taylor murders of 2020, companies made massive, highly publicized efforts to correct for systemic bias and improve the mix of race, gender, and lived experiences in the workplace. According to a recent study from Pew Research, most employed adults in the US think this is a good thing.
Domo
OCTOBER 3, 2023
Making well-informed, data-driven decisions is the hallmark of a modern business leader. With oceans of data at our fingertips it’s easy to dismiss the dinosaurs of yesteryear, who made decisions using quaint and archaic methods such as “seat of the pants” and “gut instinct.” I jest, of course. However, it certainly is comforting to convince ourselves that decision-making is now a science, rather than an art.
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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
Smart Data Collective
OCTOBER 25, 2023
In the vast realm of technology, chatbots have emerged as a revolutionary tool, bridging the gap between humans and machines. These digital assistants, initially designed to follow pre-set scripts, have now evolved into sophisticated entities capable of understanding and responding to complex human emotions and queries. But what’s the secret behind their enhanced conversational abilities?
mention
OCTOBER 11, 2023
“Should you set up shop as a marketing generalist or a specialized expert ?” It’s a timeless question that every up-and-coming digital marketing agency ponders upon. In a fervent bid to capture every conceivable client, many agencies ambitiously bill themselves as the jack-of-all-trades, ready to tackle any digital task that comes their way. And why not?
Alpha Sense BI
OCTOBER 19, 2023
One of the most significant dilemmas captivating the attention of the investment management community today is the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) vs. Coinbase (COIN) lawsuit. This past June, the SEC sued COIN , a U.S.-based cryptocurrency exchange platform, for failing to register as a securities exchange with the markets regulator. The Howey Test, an important tool for evaluating blockchain and digital currency projects by determining whether or not a transaction is an “investment co
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