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JUNE 5, 2023

Digital transformation is indeed a cornerstone of business strategy today, as 89% of enterprises see digital business as core to their growth, according to Gartner’s Board of Directors 2023 Survey. Equally telling is another statistic from that research: Just 35% of these enterprises have achieved their digital goals or are on track to do so. “This underlines the need for organizations to embrace change and adopt a more agile and forward-thinking approach to digital transformation skills in orde

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Crayon

JUNE 23, 2023

From the very first time Rachel Foskett, VP of Global Product Marketing at MiQ, met with Crayon, she had high expectations for her onboarding experience — and she knew that to run a thriving CI program she would need to start by generating goodwill for competitive intelligence across her company.

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mention

JUNE 14, 2023

In 2023, almost 5 billion people will have used social media. With an increasing number of users and social media content, businesses are struggling to cut through the noise. A lot of them miss valuable conversations with customers actively looking to buy their products. Or worst, ignore negative comments about their products on social media. Remaining indifferent to social mentions about your brand, comment sentiment and missing on analyzing emerging trends related to your industry leads only o

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Chris Webb BI

JUNE 11, 2023

Earlier this year a new feature was added to Power Query in Excel and Dataflows that very few people noticed: the abilty to export all the queries in the Power Query Editor to a template file. The reason few people noticed it was that, when the feature released, the only place you could import a template file was in a Power Platform dataflow. The documentation for exporting from Excel and importing to a Power Platform dataflow is very detailed and can be found here: [link] With the release of Fa

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Smart Data Collective

JUNE 21, 2023

Artificial intelligence has changed marketing in extraordinary ways, which is why the market for AI in the marketing profession is booming. Marketing companies spent over $35 billion on AI in marketing research alone last year, but they are likely to spend as much on AI-driven SEO. Search engine optimization (or SEO) is a broad and highly complicated area and if you are a new business owner discovering it for the first time, it can feel terribly overwhelming.

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CIO

JUNE 13, 2023

The pace of innovation is relentless. CIOs must watch for the next generation of emerging technologies because new software can go from the dreams of some clever coder to an essential part of every IT shop in the blink of an eye. Once wild and seemingly impossible notions such as large language models, machine learning, and natural language processing have gone from the labs to the front lines.

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Crayon

JUNE 14, 2023

For the third installment of our new Win/Loss Wednesdays series , we had the pleasure of chatting with Brad Rosen , President at Sales Assembly, and Nick Siddoway , President & CEO at TruVoice from Corporate Visions.

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JUNE 9, 2023

Are you struggling to generate leads for your B2B business? According to a recent study, only 17% of marketers believe they are generating enough leads for their sales teams. With the fierce competition in the market, it’s no surprise that many businesses struggle to generate a steady stream of qualified leads. But fear not! Lead generation tools can be a game-changer for your B2B sales strategy.

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Chris Webb BI

JUNE 18, 2023

One of my most popular blog posts of the last few years is this one on the “Visual has exceeded available resources” error in the Power BI Service: [link] This error only used to appear in the Power BI Service, but the good news is – and trust me, this is good news – it may now appear in Power BI Desktop too following the May 2023 release.

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Smart Data Collective

JUNE 22, 2023

Taking the world by storm, artificial intelligence and machine learning software are changing the landscape in many fields. Earlier today, one analysis found that the market size for deep learning was worth $51 billion in 2022 and it will grow to be worth $1.7 trillion by 2032. One such field is data labeling, where AI tools have emerged as indispensable assets.

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Tinuiti

JUNE 28, 2023

Press Release Tinuiti Selected by Footwear Unlimited as Performance Media Agency of Record Jun 28 2023 Footwear Unlimited has tapped Tinuiti, the largest independent performance firm in the US, to manage Client Growth, Growth Media, Affiliate, SEO, and Analytics for the Frye brand. NEW YORK, NY – April 27, 2023 – Tinuiti , the largest independent performance marketing firm across Streaming TV, Google, Meta, and Amazon, has been named the Performance Media Agency of Record for Footwear Unlimited.

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CIO

JUNE 8, 2023

As companies vie for talented tech workers to meet skills gaps in their organizations, the demand for certain tech roles has increased. There’s a strong need for workers with expertise in helping companies make sense of data, launch cloud strategies, build applications, and improve the overall user experience. This demand has driven up salaries for IT roles, especially those around development, engineering, and support.

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Crayon

JUNE 27, 2023

Compete Hub is a real-time, dynamic feed that gives your sales reps the competitive insights they need to succeed on their next call.

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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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JUNE 16, 2023

The most important benefit of getting your brand or business up on Instagram’s Explore page is reach. Like other Instagram built-in features like Reels and Stories, the Explore page is free advertising, allowing you to connect with non-followers and increase brand awareness. No two Explore pages are the same. Instagram’s algorithm curates each user’s Explore page based on their current interests and suggests accounts to follow.

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Chris Webb BI

JUNE 4, 2023

Maybe the fourth- or fifth-most exciting Power BI-related announcement last month (admittedly it was an exciting month) was that Log Analytics for Power BI datasets is now GA and you can now link multiple Power BI workspaces to a single Log Analytics workspace. This, for me, means that enabling Log Analytics has gone from being useful to essential for anyone interested in monitoring Analysis Services engine activity in an enterprise Power BI/Fabric deployment.

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Smart Data Collective

JUNE 5, 2023

Big data technology is changing our lives in tremendous ways. One of the most significant changes has been the invention of smart homes. Market analysts expect that the market for smart homes will be $worth 581 billion by 2032. Think about this for a moment: what if your house could think for you? Better yet, what if it could think about you? Imagine a world where your home understands your habits, preferences, and even your routine, then uses this information to cut costs and save you money.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 28, 2023

It’s the day of a new product launch. You’ve got butterflies, your team is excited, and you know your customers are going to be impressed. In order to make the launch a success, it’s crucial that you set clear goals, plan future steps, and earn a competitive advantage. Traditional marketing plans lay out these steps, but to really move the needle, you’ll need to dig a little deeper.

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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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JUNE 28, 2023

Amazon Web Services (AWS) on Tuesday unveiled a new no-code offering, dubbed AppFabric, designed to simplify SaaS integration for enterprises by increasing application observability and reducing operational costs associated with building point-to-point solutions. The fully managed AppFabric offering, which has been made generally available, is designed to help enterprises maintain SaaS application interoperability without having to develop connectors or workflows in-house while offering added se

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Aqute Intelligence

JUNE 27, 2023

Monitoring your competitors’ websites can give you early notice of new product announcements, new customers, changes in their product portfolio, new approaches in their go-to-market messaging and other information. Website monitoring is an easy tool for competitive intelligence. 1. InfoMinder InfoMinder can be used to track companies, products, events, news, and jobs.

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JUNE 21, 2023

Any business wants to improve its visibility on Google searches, and it requires optimizing a website, Google Ads and a Google Business Profile (formerly Google My Business). Having a well-optimized Business Profile on Google helps customers quickly find, learn more, and engage with your company. The best part of it is that the service is completely free.

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Chris Webb BI

JUNE 25, 2023

A few months ago my colleague Rui Romano gave a really good talk on Power BI monitoring for admins and developers, and it’s now available on YouTube here: If you’re interested in learning about all the options available for monitoring Power BI (including Rui’s excellent solutions for reporting on Power BI admin data and the gateway logs as well as some that I’ve never looked at such as Microsoft 365 Defender) this is a must-watch!

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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

JUNE 8, 2023

The field of academia is more dependent on big data than ever before. Educational institutions reportedly spent over $13 billion on big data in 2020. Expenditures on big data in academia are projected to be worth over $57 billion by 2030. As colleges and other educational institutions invest more heavily in big data, they are going to take advantage of different forms of technology that help them leverage it more effectively.

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FedSavvy

JUNE 21, 2023

Would you be persuaded to buy from someone who had no plan on how to deal with inevitable problems in executing a project? No? Onward and upward as we continue our Deadly Sins series ! Sin #15: Never tell me the odds U.S. Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), Medical Consultation and Support Services IDIQ Protest Decision Date : April 6, 2021 This competition involved a rather large Firm Fixed Price (FFP) IDIQ covering an incredible array of health services

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CIO

JUNE 14, 2023

Data and big data analytics are the lifeblood of any successful business. Getting the technology right can be challenging but building the right team with the right skills to undertake data initiatives can be even harder — a challenge reflected in the rising demand for big data and analytics skills and certifications. If you’re looking to get an edge on a data analytics career, certification is a great option.

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Aqute Intelligence

JUNE 23, 2023

Most technology companies use patent searches as one way of tracking their competitors’ activities. Patent searches are both an early warning about a competitor’s product roadmap , and a lagging indicator (because by the time a patent is published, the competitor is already making progress in that work). No competitive intelligence team in the technology industry should ignore patent searches.

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JUNE 12, 2023

Social media has become an increasingly vital component of any business’s online presence. As far as digital visibility goes, social media activity and interactions are pivotal in how a company can reach a wider audience, engage with potential customers, promote its products or services, and generate vital brand awareness. Collectively, these strategies help business owners ‌scale and grow their companies in the long run, while managing their reputations and creating new revenue streams.

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Zoominfo

JUNE 12, 2023

Last week, ZoomInfo co-hosted an event with Bain & Co. at Forrester’s B2B Summit North America. Our session included go-to-market efficiency insights from ZoomInfo CEO Henry Schuck and CMO Bryan Law, as well as Bain Partner Mackenzie Bushy and Dell SVP of Global Sales Operations Prabha Ramakrishnan. Here are some of the most important takeaways from the discussion, including essential research on effective go-to-market tactics and the results of our “speed to lead” experiment. 1.

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Smart Data Collective

JUNE 30, 2023

AI has quickly revolutionized operational processes across a wide variety of industries and organizations. One field that is beginning to take advantage of the many benefits of utilizing AI technology in its operations is healthcare. Specifically, AI tech is helping nurses thrive in a number of impactful, exciting, and groundbreaking ways. Developing a deeper understanding of how nurses incorporate AI technology into their work is critical to gaining a more thorough perspective on how healthcare

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