June, 2015

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How agile is your supply chain? | McKinsey & Company

Competitive Insights

Our research shows that ten operating practices are tied to higher service levels and lower inventory costs. A McKinsey Quarterly article. Source: How agile is your supply chain? | McKinsey & Company. The post How agile is your supply chain? | McKinsey & Company appeared first on Competitive Insights.

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How to Solve the Marketing Skills Gap In Your Company

Digital B2B Marketing

A few weeks ago I was talking to Maureen Blandford about marketers, marketing technology, and the need for all of us to move faster. Our conversation turned to skill sets and the current digital and technology skills gap in marketing today. A thought I had in that conversation has been gnawing at me since: “Today’s marketers don’t have the aptitude for marketing technology.” We continue to hear about the skills gap in marketing today and marketers are continuing to get tr

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To Achieve Balance in Enterprise Metrics You Must Understand the Value of Balanced Scorecards

Elegant BI

You believe in your organization! If you didn’t, you would not be in business. But, belief is not enough! To successfully operate your business, you must develop a workable strategy, and monitor and adjust that strategy, to achieve optimum results in an ever-changing market. Imagine a world in which every employee, line manager, business unit manager and executive could easily and quickly find and monitor information and make the appropriate recommendations and adjustments to keep the company on

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What is new for BI in Excel 2016

BI Insight

It’s been awhile that we are waiting for a sensible improvements in Microsoft self-service BI. The good news is that finally there will be some cool new features added to the next version of Excel which is Excel 2016. By some, I mean, well, there not a lot new BI features, but, some. Something is … Continue reading What is new for BI in Excel 2016.

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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 to Implement HR Software Like a Boss: 3 Experts Share Their Secrets

Better Buys

When it comes to buying HR software, it may feel like your organization is teetering on the edge of an abyss. Your investment is the leap, and implementation is the plunge into big data, political struggles, and lost expectations. Lucky for you: We have the parachute, and it’s called change management. It takes courage for an organization […].

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Cultural Change That Sticks – HBR

Competitive Insights

Often when businesses are being realigned to better serve their markets cultural change is required. This is an excellent article on making it work. Start with what’s already working! Source: Cultural Change That Sticks – HBR. The post Cultural Change That Sticks – HBR appeared first on Competitive Insights.

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Gartner Business Intelligence Summit – My Take

Elegant BI

I attended the Gartner Business Intelligence, Analytics and Information Management Summit, 2015 , held in India on June 9 and 10 in Mumbai. This was my first visit to the Gartner Summit, and I came back with some great insights, thoughts and – most of all – a real validation of the direction we are taking with our ElegantJ BI business intelligence and corporate performance management suite and current and future benefits our solutions provide for our customers and partners.

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Leverage Tally ERP and Other Enterprise Apps with Integrated Analytical BI Tools

Elegant BI

The Tally® ERP accounting solutions is one of the most popular accounting software solutions for small and medium sized businesses, helping businesses around the world to manage accounting and inventory records and produce simple reports. If your business uses Tally, and you want to leverage the data within the system for analytical purposes, it is time to consider, business intelligence software that provides an integrated approach, so Tally users can utilize all the sophisticated analytical ca

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Hold Your Dashboards in Your Pocket, Part 2: Use Your Predefined Dashboards on Your Windows Devices

BI Insight

In a previous post, “Hold Your Dashboards in Your Pocket, Part 1: Use Your Predefined Dashboards on Your IOS Devices“, I explained how to use Power BI app on your IOS devices. In this post I express how to use Power BI app on your Windows devices. It’s relatively easy to install and use the … Continue reading Hold Your Dashboards in Your Pocket, Part 2: Use Your Predefined Dashboards on Your Windows Devices.

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What is new for BI in Excel 2016

BI Insight

It’s been awhile that we are waiting for a sensible improvements in Microsoft self-service BI. The good news is that finally there will be some cool new features added to the next version of Excel which is Excel 2016. By some, I mean, well, there not a lot new BI features, but, some. Something is … Continue reading What is new for BI in Excel 2016.

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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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Stop Dreaming, Start Achieving with Awesome BI Tools

Elegant BI

Stop Dreaming, Start Achieving with Awesome BI Tools. Everyone is talking about self-serve BI , but how many vendors really deliver it? Does your organization struggle to deliver flexible, accessible mobile BI tools that can be used effectively by every business user to help the organization achieve results? Can your BI tool deliver results for small companies, and large companies with plenty of support for growth and the flexibility to provide access on all mobile devices?

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Hold Your Dashboards in Your Pocket, Part 2: Use Your Predefined Dashboards on Your Windows Devices

BI Insight

In a previous post, “Hold Your Dashboards in Your Pocket, Part 1: Use Your Predefined Dashboards on Your IOS Devices“, I explained how to use Power BI app on your IOS devices. In this post I express how to use Power BI app on your Windows devices. It’s relatively easy to install and use the … Continue reading Hold Your Dashboards in Your Pocket, Part 2: Use Your Predefined Dashboards on Your Windows Devices.

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Business Intelligence: The Definitive Guide

Better Buys

What’s all this jazz about business intelligence? You’ve come to the right place to find out. We’ve compiled everything you need to know about BI in our latest resource: The Definitive Guide to Business Intelligence After 8 months, 14k words, 50 featured experts, and a ton of Big Data, we’ve put together 7 chapters to answer […].

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CMMS and Beyond: The Highest Standard of Predictive Maintenance

Better Buys

What exactly is predictive maintenance? For starters, it’s a highly accurate way of using data to cut maintenance costs. Hardware advancements have helped Computerized Maintenance Management Software (CMMS) collect a lot of insightful data. With that data, businesses can predict when problems will occur, such as a piece of equipment breaking. Here’s how we define predictive maintenance: Predictive maintenance […].

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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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CMMS and Beyond: The Highest Standard of Predictive Maintenance

Better Buys

What exactly is predictive maintenance? For starters, it’s a highly accurate way of using data to cut maintenance costs. Hardware advancements have helped Computerized Maintenance Management Software (CMMS) collect a lot of insightful data. With that data, businesses can predict when problems will occur, such as a piece of equipment breaking. Here’s how we define predictive maintenance: Predictive maintenance […].

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Business Intelligence: The Definitive Guide

Better Buys

What’s all this jazz about business intelligence? You’ve come to the right place to find out. We’ve compiled everything you need to know about BI in our latest resource: The Definitive Guide to Business Intelligence After 8 months, 14k words, 50 featured experts, and a ton of Big Data, we’ve put together 7 chapters to answer […].

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Document Management System Security: Evaluating 3 Options of Storing Data

Better Buys

How do I know my content is safe in a Document Management System (DMS)? Is my company’s data really secure? Every file a team creates has the potential to leak information. With these storage systems living in the cloud, security becomes a top priority. How do you know for sure those company secrets are in safe hands? While […].

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Handcuffing Users with Packaged BI Dashboards?

Elegant BI

Business intelligence solutions have come a long way in the past five years with continued innovation and transformation from traditional BI to data visualization and data discovery. With the advent of improved BI tools and accessibility, many businesses are using precious IT budgets to add self-serve business intelligence to their solution infrastructure and put the power of self-serve BI tools into the hands of their employees and business users.

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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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Retailers Bemoan the Woes of Ineffective Business Intelligence

Elegant BI

If your business wants to make most of business intelligence , it must consider democratization and distribution of critical BI tools and data across the enterprise. Click here: [link].