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29 Signs You Need a Break From Marketing

Digital B2B Marketing

'Over time, your role in marketing begins to permeate every part of your life. You adopt behavior, language or perspective that is completely natural to you, but doesn’t make sense to anyone around you. Just maybe, that means it is time to take a break. If more than a handful of these describe you, it is time to get to know, again, what the world beyond your marketing bubble is like.

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How to send SSIS logs (errors) through email

BI Insight

First of all I want to explain the process of sending SSIS Logs through email for better understanding. As you might know you can save SSIS logs in several ways for administration purposes. In this article our focus is on how to send SSIS logs to the administrator whenever an event like a package failure … Continue reading How to send SSIS logs (errors) through email.

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Business Intelligence for the Conscientious Employee…Or, Why Am I Accountable for Things I Can’t Control?

Elegant BI

Every business employee has heard the words, ‘empowerment’ and ‘accountability’. But, how can an employee be accountable for results without being empowered to make decisions? How can a company empower an employer to make decisions if employees don’t have accurate, timely, clear information with which to make these decisions? If your business is struggling with these issues, it’s important to understand the role business intelligence tools can play in solving your problems.

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The Biggest Missed Opportunity in B2B Lead Generation

Digital B2B Marketing

'When the success of your business is less important than the success of your marketing, something is seriously wrong. Yet this is exactly how most B2B marketers approach lead generation today! You don’t care about the number of leads your sales team has. Instead you care about the number of marketing sourced leads. We all know B2B marketing measurement is imperfect, yet we momentarily suspend all reservations in order to judge our effectiveness based on results attributed to our efforts i

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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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Good B2B Marketing ROI Is Just Average

Digital B2B Marketing

'What is a good ROI on marketing? If you can increase net income by 50 cents for every dollar spent on marketing, that’s good, right? The more you spend, the more money you make. But what if you learned your primary competitor was getting $1.50 in income for every dollar spent on marketing? 3x the return you are getting on marketing! All of a sudden your marketing looks pretty ineffective!

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How to send more precise SSIS logs (errors) through email

BI Insight

First of all you need to read my previous article called “How to send SSIS logs (errors) through email” as the processes are pretty the same. However, you need to create some changes in the Execute SQL Task (ref.: section “J” number 5 and 12 of “How to send SSIS logs (errors) through email”). As … Continue reading How to send more precise SSIS logs (errors) through email.

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Installing SQL Server 2014 CTP1

BI Insight

After downloading the SQL Server 2014, mount the media file downloaded and run “setup.exe” In SQL Server Installation Centre click on “Installation” Click on “New SQL Server stand-alone installation or add features to an existing installation” Note that if you have any of previous versions of SQL Server installed on your machine the setup process … Continue reading Installing SQL Server 2014 CTP1.

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Installing SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) 2012 integrated mode with SharePoint 2013

BI Insight

Reporting services 2012 integrated with SharePoint 2013 In this post I’m going to describe installing SSRS 2012 integrated mode with SharePoint 2013. As some guys are pretty new to SSRS 2012 or SharePoint or even SSRS integrated with SharePoint, I am explaining the situation from scratch. Requirements: SQL Server 2012 Enterprise (or Business Intelligence) edition … Continue reading Installing SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) 2012 integrated mode with SharePoint 2013.

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Tell us how BI has helped (or CAN help) with empowerment and accountability

Elegant BI

Tell us how BI has helped (or CAN help) with empowerment and accountability. Betsy says: How can an employee be accountable for results without being empowered to make decisions? How can a company empower an employer to make decisions if employees don’t have accurate, timely, clear information with which to make these decisions? This is a question many businesses are pondering.

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How to send SSIS logs (errors) through email

BI Insight

First of all I want to explain the process of sending SSIS Logs through email for better understanding. As you might know you can save SSIS logs in several ways for administration purposes. In this article our focus is on how to send SSIS logs to the administrator whenever an event like a package failure … Continue reading How to send SSIS logs (errors) through email.

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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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How to send more precise SSIS logs (errors) through email

BI Insight

First of all you need to read my previous article called “How to send SSIS logs (errors) through email” as the processes are pretty the same. However, you need to create some changes in the Execute SQL Task (ref.: section “J” number 5 and 12 of “How to send SSIS logs (errors) through email”). As … Continue reading How to send more precise SSIS logs (errors) through email.

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Count tables’ references and tables’ foreign keys

BI Insight

There are some cases that you do not have any documentations for the database that you are working on and you need to investigate the entity relationships and so on. We can understand the database entity relationships better if we can find the number of references to the table or the number of tables’ dependencies. … Continue reading Count tables’ references and tables’ foreign keys.

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Count tables’ references and tables’ foreign keys

BI Insight

There are some cases that you do not have any documentations for the database that you are working on and you need to investigate the entity relationships and so on. We can understand the database entity relationships better if we can find the number of references to the table or the number of tables’ dependencies. … Continue reading Count tables’ references and tables’ foreign keys.

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I Like Lists But I LOVE Business Intelligence Tools!

Elegant BI

I Like Lists But I LOVE Business Intelligence Tools! I like lists! Lists keep me organized and help me get things done. What lists don’t do is to give me all the information I need to make the right decision, establish the right priority or the make right direction. That’s where business intelligence tools come in! With business intelligence tools and Corporate Performance Management solutions my team can effectively fulfill business obligations, and I can do my part to meet corporate objectives

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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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How to store a SQL Server database diagram into a file and share it with others?

BI Insight

Sometimes you might feel you need to store the database diagrams in a file basis. I’ve faced to this feeling specially when I was testing some databases which were under development. I didn’t like to create the whole database diagrams that I’ve created before in a database that a new version of it is newly … Continue reading How to store a SQL Server database diagram into a file and share it with others?

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How to hash sensitive data for maximising security in SQL Server 2005 and later versions?

BI Insight

SENSITIVE DATA! It’s an interesting topic! In this post I’m trying to explain how to hash data to increase security during ETL. Assume that we have sensitive data stored in several secured source systems. The source systems are located in different countries and different regions. As the source systems themselves are secured, how we can … Continue reading How to hash sensitive data for maximising security in SQL Server 2005 and later versions?

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How to hash sensitive data for maximising security in SQL Server 2005 and later versions?

BI Insight

SENSITIVE DATA! It’s an interesting topic! In this post I’m trying to explain how to hash data to increase security during ETL. Assume that we have sensitive data stored in several secured source systems. The source systems are located in different countries and different regions. As the source systems themselves are secured, how we can … Continue reading How to hash sensitive data for maximising security in SQL Server 2005 and later versions?

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What is Hekaton?

BI Insight

First of all, I’d like to point to the fact that there is almost always a bottleneck with OLTP database’s performance that is related to disk speed. So in-memory processing can improve the current poor performance with disk-based tables significantly as well as achieving scalability. In a very simple and quick explanation, Hekaton is new … Continue reading What is Hekaton?

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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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How to define database owner SQL server wide

BI Insight

What does it actually mean that the database doesn’t have a database owner?! It seems odd, but, it is possible. In some cases that the database is created by an application it really happens that the database doesn’t have any database owner. For instance, the databases generated by CRM Deployment Manager doesn’t have database owner. … Continue reading How to define database owner SQL server wide.

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How to define database owner SQL server wide

BI Insight

What does it actually mean that the database doesn’t have a database owner?! It seems odd, but, it is possible. In some cases that the database is created by an application it really happens that the database doesn’t have any database owner. For instance, the databases generated by CRM Deployment Manager doesn’t have database owner. … Continue reading How to define database owner SQL server wide.

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Installing SQL Server 2014 CTP1

BI Insight

After downloading the SQL Server 2014, mount the media file downloaded and run “setup.exe” In SQL Server Installation Centre click on “Installation” Click on “New SQL Server stand-alone installation or add features to an existing installation” Note that if you have any of previous versions of SQL Server installed on your machine the setup process … Continue reading Installing SQL Server 2014 CTP1.

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How to drop tables database wide using T-SQL

BI Insight

There are some cases that we need to drop all tables database wide. For example when we have a test database and we need to delete all tables from the database and recreate some other tables for testing we need to drop each table manually using the GUI. Assume we have 50 tables in the … Continue reading How to drop tables database wide using T-SQL.

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A Practical Guide to Business Intelligence Governance

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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Drop tables from selected schemas database wide

BI Insight

In my previous post called “How to drop tables database wide using T-SQL” I’ve explained that how we could delete all tables database wide in SQL Server. But, what if there are some other schemas other than “dbo” and some tables that are created in those schemas? If we just delete “[dbo].” from the code … Continue reading Drop tables from selected schemas database wide.

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Microsoft SQL Server 2014 Community Technology Preview 1 (CTP1) is ready to download

BI Insight

SQL server 2014 Community Technology Preview 1 (CTP1) is ready to download here: [link] Key Features Project code-named “Hekaton” One of the most exciting features in this version is a project code-named “Hekaton” that provides in-memory OLTP capabilities. As Hekaton is built into core SQL Server database it will improve the performance of the database … Continue reading Microsoft SQL Server 2014 Community Technology Preview 1 (CTP1) is ready to download.

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How to drop tables database wide using T-SQL

BI Insight

There are some cases that we need to drop all tables database wide. For example when we have a test database and we need to delete all tables from the database and recreate some other tables for testing we need to drop each table manually using the GUI. Assume we have 50 tables in the … Continue reading How to drop tables database wide using T-SQL.

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Drop tables from selected schemas database wide

BI Insight

In my previous post called “How to drop tables database wide using T-SQL” I’ve explained that how we could delete all tables database wide in SQL Server. But, what if there are some other schemas other than “dbo” and some tables that are created in those schemas? If we just delete “[dbo].” from the code … Continue reading Drop tables from selected schemas database wide.

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What Regulations Will Impact Sustainability Comms in 2024?

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

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Microsoft SQL Server 2014 Community Technology Preview 1 (CTP1) is ready to download

BI Insight

SQL server 2014 Community Technology Preview 1 (CTP1) is ready to download here: [link] Key Features Project code-named “Hekaton” One of the most exciting features in this version is a project code-named “Hekaton” that provides in-memory OLTP capabilities. As Hekaton is built into core SQL Server database it will improve the performance of the database … Continue reading Microsoft SQL Server 2014 Community Technology Preview 1 (CTP1) is ready to download.

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Three different approaches for creating a BISM in SSAS 2012, Tabular vs. Multidimensional vs. PowerPivot

BI Insight

SSAS 2012 supports three different approaches for creating a BISM (Business Intelligence Semantic Model): 1. Tabular a. Uses relational modelling constructs like such as tables and relationships b. Uses xVelocity in-memory analytics engine for sorting and data calculations c. Needs to use SSDT (SQL Server Data Tools) to implement d. Can import data from relational … Continue reading Three different approaches for creating a BISM in SSAS 2012, Tabular vs.

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Installing SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) 2012 integrated mode with SharePoint 2013

BI Insight

Reporting services 2012 integrated with SharePoint 2013 In this post I’m going to describe installing SSRS 2012 integrated mode with SharePoint 2013. As some guys are pretty new to SSRS 2012 or SharePoint or even SSRS integrated with SharePoint, I am explaining the situation from scratch. Requirements: SQL Server 2012 Enterprise (or Business Intelligence) … Continue reading Installing SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) 2012 integrated mode with SharePoint 2013.

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Three different approaches for creating a BISM in SSAS 2012, Tabular vs. Multidimensional vs. PowerPivot

BI Insight

SSAS 2012 supports three different approaches for creating a BISM (Business Intelligence Semantic Model): 1. Tabular a. Uses relational modelling constructs like such as tables and relationships b. Uses xVelocity in-memory analytics engine for sorting and data calculations c. Needs to use SSDT (SQL Server Data Tools) to implement d. Can import data from relational … Continue reading Three different approaches for creating a BISM in SSAS 2012, Tabular vs.

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What Questions Are Brands Asking About Their ESG Initiatives Ahead of 2024?

Temperatures are rising (and not just metaphorically) as key stakeholders anxiously anticipate the outcomes of COP28. While companies reconsider their 2024 environmental sustainability strategies, there is another aspect of ESG that deserves exploring, the social sector. In the latest edition of "Navigating ESG Comms Through the Cosmos - Sagittarius Edition", 3BL hones in on this sign’s bold quality of asking questions others are burning to know the answers to.