October, 2016

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Feed Your Organization: Avoid Packaged BI. Choose ‘Fresh’ BI Tools!

Elegant BI

In a way, choosing a business Intelligence tools is like choosing the right food. In recent years, we have all become more aware of the difference between packaged foods and fresh foods. Today, businesses are becoming more aware of the differences between ‘packaged’ BI tools and self-serve BI tools that provide ‘fresh’ views and data analysis.

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Use KPI in Table, Matrix and Card Visualisations in Power BI

BI Insight

One of the coolest features in Power Pivot is the ability to define KPIs based on calculated measures. You can create KPIs in SSAS Tabular as well. Unfortunately, this feature is missing from Power BI. In this post I show you a very simple way to import KPIs and use them in Table, Matrix, Multi-row … Continue reading Use KPI in Table, Matrix and Card Visualisations in Power BI.

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5 Ways Sales Software Turns More Leads Into Deals

Domo

Data’s nothing new to the sales landscape. In fact, sales teams have more information at their disposal than ever before. And they’re using that data to do everything from identify opportunities to improve performance. Yet, even with all that data, so many sales teams still struggle to close deals and hit quotas. Why is that? A new study by GetApp surveyed 200 consumers and 250 sales professionals shed light on the problem.

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Advisors and Business Owners collaborate with BI4Cloud

BI4Cloud

Cloud Accounting systems are eliminating many of the data entry and reconciliation chores of running accounting software. Bank feeds, invoice scanning, automated and machine learning are making bank reconciliation a button press. These systems all have web based databases so access to data and reliability is greatly improved. These systems have open interfaces or API’s so many add-on applications can be inexpensively sourced.

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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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How Applicant Tracking Supports Talent Acquisition: 4 Steps

Better Buys

When searching for the perfect new hire, many tools are at a recruiter’s disposal to develop a rich talent pool, including applicant tracking systems (ATS). These systems have existed for decades, but have recently undergone vast improvements. What started as a solution for storing resumes has become a way to streamline the talent acquisition process. […].

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Grow Your Ad Sales Business In Ways Competitors Can't Match

Audience Partners

With thousand of subscriber addressable campaigns for MVPD partners under our belt, Audience Partners is adept at bringing the right tool to the job based on your campaign goals and objectives. Audience Partners has invested nearly a decade in developing an MVPD purpose-built ad targeting and activation platform to maximize your campaign performance, ensure more precise and granular targeting, target the same users across channels, and synchronize your cross-media messaging.

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Webinar Materials: Power BI Under the Hood

BI Insight

I’d like to thank you all for attending the webinar held on 30th September 2016. I talked about some amazing under cover aspects of Power BI Desktop model. In this session you learnt: how to find Power BI Desktop local port number how to connect to Power BI Desktop model from Excel and SQL Server … Continue reading Webinar Materials: Power BI Under the Hood.

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How We Systematically Overvalue Content Consumption

Digital B2B Marketing

Let’s get right to the point. B2B marketers today are not optimizing programs to reach and engage their best prospects. Sure, we talk about a buyer journey or about carefully mapping content. But at the end of the day, what are we doing? We are scoring leads high if they consume a lot of content and we are optimizing our program to increase lead scores and content consumption.

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Franchise and Multi-Unit Reporting

BI4Cloud

The Power of Detail. When a franchisor needs to crunch through the numbers to fathom which franchisee needs to be under the spotlight, use Bi4Cloud as the one reporting and charting tool that can dig into the detail and delivers top to bottom. Dashboard to Detail – Alert to Action – Outlier to Outcome – Overview to Insight. Franchise and Multi-Unit Reporting.

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Tableau vs Excel: Comparing Core Features and Functions

Better Buys

Many feel Tableau and Excel are competing solutions. Others think the tools are like apples and oranges. Both tools are used for data analysis. However, each takes a different approach to exploring data and finding key insights. Here’s a deeper look into what makes the two different: Spreadsheet vs Data Visualization The simple explanation: Excel is a […].

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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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App Of The Week: Campaign Scorecard

Domo

The Domo Appstore allows you to tailor our industry-leading business intelligence platform to the specific set of challenges facing your company. With roughly 1,000 unique applications available for purchase, the Appstore provides all the tools you need to ask and answer your most pressing business questions. In our App of the Week series, we’re looking at just a few of the many apps our customers are using to get more out of their data.

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Look, But Don’t Touch! The Gap Between Data Visualization & Data Discovery!

Elegant BI

At some point in your life, you have probably been told to ‘look, but don’t touch.’ When it comes to business intelligence, the flaw in the logic of solution design often subjects business users to this same philosophy. With most BI tools (even those we call ‘self-serve’), we limit the users to looking but we don’t allow them to touch and manipulate the data for deep dive analysis.

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Data Classification in Power BI

BI Insight

In many corporations depending on the type of data is being used there could be different types of the sensitivities that should be applied to that data. Data Classification fulfills in Power BI Service this matter very easily. In today’s post you’ll learn how to setup Data Classification in Power BI Service. First of all … Continue reading Data Classification in Power BI.

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Use KPI in Table, Matrix and Card Visualisations in Power BI

BI Insight

One of the coolest features in Power Pivot is the ability to define KPIs based on calculated measures. You can create KPIs in SSAS Tabular as well. Unfortunately, this feature is missing from Power BI. In this post I show you a very simple way to import KPIs and use them in Table, Matrix, Multi-row … Continue reading Use KPI in Table, Matrix and Card Visualisations in 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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Great Data Governance and Self-Serve BI – YES! It’s Possible

Elegant BI

We all know the definition of the word ‘anarchy’! The dictionary describes ‘anarchy’ as: ‘a state of disorder due to absence or non-recognition of authority.’ When it comes to data governance, no business wants to risk data anarchy. Data Anarchy occurs: When valuable, critical data sources reside in the same repositories as ungoverned data components.

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Webinar Materials: Power BI Under the Hood

BI Insight

I’d like to thank you all for attending the webinar held on 30th September 2016. I talked about some amazing under cover aspects of Power BI Desktop model. In this session you learnt: how to find Power BI Desktop local port number how to connect to Power BI Desktop model from Excel and SQL Server … Continue reading Webinar Materials: Power BI Under the Hood.

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Data Classification in Power BI

BI Insight

In many corporations depending on the type of data is being used there could be different types of the sensitivities that should be applied to that data. Data Classification fulfills in Power BI Service this matter very easily. In today’s post you’ll learn how to setup Data Classification in Power BI Service. First of all … Continue reading Data Classification in Power BI.

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Blended Learning & LMS: Keys to Boosting Your Training Performance

Better Buys

According to a 2015 24X7 Learning report, Understanding the Learner, only 12% of learners stated they apply new skills and knowledge learned from training to their job. With an average of $1,229 and 34.4 hours being spent per employee on training, that’s a lot of company time and money wasted. Using blended learning methods with your employee […].

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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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ATS Cost Comparison: 4 Most Common Pricing Structures

Better Buys

How much does applicant tracking software cost? How can I compare prices? Many organizations are looking into applicant tracking software (ATS) for help with attracting, reviewing and hiring candidates. ATS solutions provide a simple and paper-free way to handle the recruitment process, and they’ve improved a great deal recently. Here, we’ll explain the basic costs […].

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IT and Accounting Pros Can Satisfy Standards and Security Compliance and Reporting with BI Tools

Elegant BI

In the new world of government regulation, the technology (IT) team and accounting team are both required to monitor, manage and report on financial and regulatory and business process compliance. These auditing requirements are meant to ensure that financial, planning and operational systems are adequately controlled and protected. Industry and governmental compliance requirements are meant to ensure the adequacy and integrity of auditing processes and regulatory compliance including business p

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Halloween By The Numbers

Domo

Here, at Domo, we really dig Halloween. Just check out some of our Halloweens past. We’re also really into data, if you haven’t heard. That’s why these wicked Halloween stats from the National Retail Federation caught our eyeballs! They surveyed 6,791 consumers back in September to find out that more than half of all Americans plan on celebrating Halloween in some form this year, and what their plans for celebrating are.

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