February, 2016

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How You Can Become a Conversation Rockstar

Cooperative Intelligence Blog

So much about life revolves around effective communication. As a primary research expert, I am always looking to for ways to motivate others to share. You need to understand what makes them comfortable to share. I recently read Traci Brown ’s book, Persuasion Point: Body Language and Speech for Influence. While the book focuses on closing sales deals, the same tactics will work to promote sharing when conducting competitive intelligence collection or win/loss interviews.

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BI Users Want Data Governance NOT Data Anarchy: Open the Playground

Elegant BI

Most of us have long since outgrown the school playground but let’s revisit the old neighborhood for a moment, shall we? Imagine that you are a small child and you want to explore all that the playground has to offer. You want to try the swings, the teeter-totter, the swinging bars, the slide – you want to try it all. It is the job of the teachers and parents to keep you safe and, to allow you access to only those parts of the playground that are age appropriate and suitable for your

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Power BI Publisher for Excel

BI Insight

Update: Publish your Excel (M365) reports to Power BI Service The Excel Pulisher to Power BI Service is not available as an add-in anymore. It is now a built-in feature within the Excel app itself. You can now publish your Excel reports directly from the Excel itself into your Power BI Service. Follow the steps … Continue reading Power BI Publisher for Excel.

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How savvy CIOs are creating revenue in the cloud [INFOGRAPHIC]

Domo

According to Gartner’s 2016 CIO Agenda Report, “In the next 5 years, CIOs expect digital revenues to grow 16% to 37%.” The report outlines the digitalization of the enterprise as one of the leading contributing factors. The transformation of the CIO role could be challenging for old-school CIOs unwilling to adopt new technology. But for the modern CIO, a shift in technology means massive opportunity for CIOs willing to experiment with digital platforms.

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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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What Makes Document Management Software HIPAA Compliant?

Better Buys

If you work in the healthcare industry, you’re likely very familiar with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, or HIPAA. This act was established to protect the privacy of individuals receiving healthcare, and it guides virtually every facet of information handling in the healthcare industry. However, healthcare professionals aren’t the only ones […].

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ElegantJ BI in Gartner Market Guide and Magic Quadrant for BI – 2016

Elegant BI

ElegantJ BI team is glad to announce that ElegantJ BI has been mentioned in Gartner’s Market Guide for Enterprise-Reporting-Based Platforms published just yesterday! Also, ElegantJ BI is mentioned in the list of “ Other Modern BI Platform Vendors ” in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence and Analytics Platforms Report – 2016 published earlier this month!

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SSRS 2016 and Power BI

BI Insight

Without a doubt SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) is one of the most powerful reporting tools for several years. There are tons of features that you can use to make a report that suits your customers’ needs. Despite programmability and extensibility are key strengths of Reporting Services platform when it comes to creating dashboards, SSRS … Continue reading SSRS 2016 and Power BI.

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Power BI and iFrame

BI Insight

Power BI is growing very quickly and there are tons of fantastic features added to it during the past few months. So there are lots of Power BI subjects we can talk about these days. In this article I want to represent a new feature added to Power BI Service which is “Publish to Web”. … Continue reading Power BI and iFrame. The post Power BI and iFrame appeared first on BI Insight.

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Connect Live Power BI to SSAS Multidimensional

BI Insight

In one of my previous posts I explained how to use Power BI on top of your SSAS Multidimensional using Data Import Scenario. You can also find definitive explanation about “Managing Analysis Services Multidimensional Model” here. In this post I show you how to connect live your SSAS Multidimensional model with Power BI. “Connect Live … Continue reading Connect Live Power BI to SSAS Multidimensional.

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Successfully Leveraging BI Tools. What BI Professionals Say is Important

Elegant BI

Survey Participants were asked to rate items relative to how their organization found certain factors to be importance in achieving success in BI efforts. Click here: [link].

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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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White Paper : Find and leverage key data in the enterprise with BI tools

Elegant BI

Without a true and complete picture of all available business intelligence, an enterprise cannot effectively plan for success, solve problems or capitalize on opportunities.

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Power BI Publisher for Excel

BI Insight

Update: Publish your Excel (M365) reports to Power BI Service The Excel Pulisher to Power BI Service is not available as an add-in anymore. It is now a built-in feature within the Excel app itself. You can now publish your Excel reports directly from the Excel itself into your Power BI Service. Follow the steps … Continue reading Power BI Publisher for Excel.

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Case Study: Fabric Yarn Manufacturer Achieves Business Intelligence, Data Integration & Analysis Goals

Elegant BI

A large India-based synthetic fabric manufacturer asked ElegantJ BI to provide business intelligence solutions and services to create a scalable, comprehensive business intelligence tool and support confident decision-making and data analysis. The business improved financial analysis related to cash flow, debtors and aging, and to analyze vendors, pricing trends and procurement, and achieved integrated data for analysis and reporting, in a uniform, multidimensional information architecture that

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SSRS 2016 and Power BI

BI Insight

Without a doubt SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) is one of the most powerful reporting tools for several years. There are tons of features that you can use to make a report that suits your customers’ needs. Despite programmability and extensibility are key strengths of Reporting Services platform when it comes to creating dashboards, SSRS … Continue reading SSRS 2016 and Power BI.

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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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Power BI and iFrame

BI Insight

Power BI is growing very quickly and there are tons of fantastic features added to it during the past few months. So there are lots of Power BI subjects we can talk about these days. In this article I want to represent a new feature added to Power BI Service which is “Publish to Web”. … Continue reading Power BI and iFrame. The post Power BI and iFrame appeared first on BI Insight.

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Connect Live Power BI to SSAS Multidimensional

BI Insight

In one of my previous posts I explained how to use Power BI on top of your SSAS Multidimensional using Data Import Scenario. You can also find definitive explanation about “Managing Analysis Services Multidimensional Model” here. In this post I show you how to connect live your SSAS Multidimensional model with Power BI. “Connect Live … Continue reading Connect Live Power BI to SSAS Multidimensional.

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Content Management in the Time of Breaches: 4 Points to Protect Yourself

Better Buys

The following is a guest post from Jeff Frankel, Executive Vice President and Principal at docSTAR Sharing data may seem at odds with protecting it in a world of massive security breaches. The 2014 Ponemon Institute Cost of Data Breach Study estimates that globally, the average cost of a data breach to a company was $3.5 million in […].

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Gartner’s 2016 BI Magic Quadrant: Insights from Tableau, Qlik and Logi

Better Buys

Every year, Gartner assesses the market for business intelligence software. Its annual analysis has become a valuable go-to source for anyone researching this buying space, especially outsiders. With the release of Gartner’s 2016 BI & Analytics Magic Quadrant report, it seems the market is resetting itself in order to reach a common goal: Empower the […].

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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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Business Intelligence Growth & Value: 7 Telling Stats [Infographic]

Better Buys

Business intelligence (BI) has revolutionized, well, business. By shifting standard practices to data-driven initiatives and transforming key roles to include teams of high-level data professionals, big data analytics has given companies the ability to effectively grow their business and raise the competitive bar. As data discovery becomes crucial to organizations, BI tools have become more […].

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Achieve Data Democratization with the Right Self-Serve BI Tool

Elegant BI

Achieve Data Democratization with the Right Self-Serve BI Tool. Data democratization does not involve the process of diversifying data so that there is something for everyone. It involves the democratization of meaningful ACCESS to data! If you don’t think your business users need data, you need to think about the tasks you assign these users every day.