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QR Code Generator: What Is a QR Code & How To Create One

mention

QR codes have become a ubiquitous tool in our daily lives, allowing us to quickly access information, promotions, and services through our smartphones. With the rise in popularity of QR codes, many QR code generators have emerged, allowing businesses and individuals to create custom QR codes for various purposes. In this article, we will explore the different types of QR code generators available and their features, as well as provide tips on how to choose the best QR code generator for your nee

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How to Create a Competitive Analysis Template in 2023

Netbasequid

As the first quarter of 2023 hurtles by, it’s a good time to catch up with what other brands have been up to. It’s what the best performers do: According to Emerald , 90 percent of Fortune 500 companies use competitive intelligence to gain an edge over their competitors. A competitive analysis will tell you all you need to know about your competitor’s activities and performance and help you identify hidden opportunities and mitigate emerging threats.

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Building a vision for real-time artificial intelligence

CIO

By George Trujillo, Principal Data Strategist, DataStax I recently had a conversation with a senior executive who had just landed at a new organization. He had been trying to gather new data insights but was frustrated at how long it was taking. (Sound familiar?) After walking his executive team through the data hops, flows, integrations, and processing across different ingestion software, databases, and analytical platforms, they were shocked by the complexity of their current data architecture

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How SafeGuard Cyber Increased Win Rates with Battlecard Adoption

Crayon

In our fifth installment of the Crayon Customer Corner, we sat down with Dan Dearing — Senior Director of Product Marketing at SafeGuard Cyber. As a competitive intelligence team of one who maintains 19 battlecards and tracks nearly 40 competitors across his entire competitive landscape, Dan understands the importance of generating adoption for your CI program.

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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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Understanding The “A Measure Is Used In Cross Highlighting” Error In Power BI

Chris Webb BI

When interacting with a Power BI report you may occasionally get the following error: Couldn’t load the data for this visual We can’t display this visual because a measure is used in cross highlighting. Please remove the measure or cross highlight. What does this mean? The most important thing to explain is that you have not done anything wrong : you have, unfortunately, run into a limitation of Power BI where it can’t generate the query needed for a selection on a visual.

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Accelerating innovation with cloud-native apps on Microsoft Cloud

CIO

The financial services sector is undergoing rapid change as fintechs develop convenient, consumer-focused services that were once the province of traditional banks. We spoke with Siddhartha Gupta, Global Head of Application Modernization on Azure at Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) , about this trend and what financial services organizations need to do to improve their capacity for agility and innovation.

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Google Report Shows Android Users Need VPNs for Data Privacy

Smart Data Collective

Consumers are becoming more concerned about data privacy than ever. Last September, the Government Accountability Office highlighted some of the issues about data privacy. If you have an Android device, you will need to be diligent about protecting against data privacy risks. Some of the risks and potential safeguards to consider are highlighted below.

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12 Top Tools for Competitive Intelligence

Aqute Intelligence

A good competitor research project will use many sources to collect as much information as possible about the target competitor. The two main categories of information for competitor analysis are: Primary fieldwork (let’s think of that as telephone calls similar to traditional market research) – this is sometimes called humint, meaning human intelligence Public sources of information, mainly available online – this is sometimes called osint, for open source intelligence (but includes sources tha

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Reddit Source on Mention: A Business Monitoring Tool

mention

Reddit is a popular social media platform that allows users to share content, discuss topics, and engage in various communities known as subreddits. With over 430 million active users, Reddit is a massive online community that has the power to influence online brands’ reputation positively or negatively. One of the main reasons why Reddit can make or break a brands’ reputation is due to the platform’s user-generated content.

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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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6 best practices to develop a corporate use policy for generative AI

CIO

While there’s an open letter calling for all AI labs to immediately pause training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4 for six months, the reality is the genie is already out of the bottle. Here are ways to get a better grasp of what these systems are capable of, and utilize them to construct an effective corporate use policy for your organization.

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Using Predictive Analytics to Get the Best Deals on Amazon

Smart Data Collective

Predictive analytics technology has had a huge affect on our lives, even though we don’t usually think much about it. Therefore, it should not be a surprise that the market for predictive analytics tools will be worth an estimated $44 billion by 2030. There are many ways that predictive analytics is changing the way we live. One of the biggest changes is that more people are using this technology to forecast prices.

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Top 6 Energy Transition Trends to Watch in 2023

Alpha Sense BI

Last year , the low-carbon energy transition faced seemingly insurmountable headwinds. In early 2022, clean energy costs were on the rise and supply chain issues stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic and Russia- Ukraine war became roadblocks to progress. Further, after many years of easy access to cheap money—and consequently, capital for financing renewable projects—inflation rose to an all-time high of 9.1% within the US by July.

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Five Must-Have Characteristics of Extraordinary Data Scientists

Dataversity

There’s no better time than right now to be a data scientist. Despite recent large-scale layoffs in major tech firms, the future is bright for data managers, analysts, data wranglers, and consultants. In fact, the number of jobs requiring Data Science skills is expected to grow by 27.9% by 2026, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor […] The post Five Must-Have Characteristics of Extraordinary Data Scientists appeared first on DATAVERSITY.

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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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plusserver: Offering a sovereign GDPR-compliant cloud “made in Germany”

CIO

Alexander Wallner, CEO of plusserver, believes the importance of the sovereign cloud services and solutions needed to ensure that data is protected, safe, and compliant cannot be overemphasized. He is also quick to point out that plusserver takes responsibility for the cloud-based operations of its growing customer base, which includes enterprises across industries and throughout Germany’s public and private sectors.

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5 Ways Layered Navigation Improves Business Intelligence Strategies

Smart Data Collective

Big data technology has had a number of important benefits for businesses in all industries. One of the biggest advantages is that big data helps companies utilize business intelligence. It is one of the biggest reasons that the market for big data is projected to be worth $273 billion by 2026. Companies are finding more creative ways to employ data analytics to improve their business intelligence strategies.

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Critical Areas Missing from Your Research: Wall Street Insights (WSI)

Alpha Sense BI

Conducting research that fuels confident business and investment decisions requires access to content from across all key market perspectives. Without a holistic view of the market, you leave yourself vulnerable to missed opportunities, which can seriously impact your bottom line in precarious economic times. While earnings transcripts, sector news journals, and interviews with experts provide integral context to industry trends and intel on market movements, equity research possesses invaluabl

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Is agile project management still the right approach for your library?

Vable

Is agile working still relevant for library and information professionals? In my opinion, "agile working" has simply become "working" but you need to look at the possibilities. As the needs of users change, and as technology evolves, information services must adapt in order to continue to serve their users and organisations well. If we want to inform organisational strategy, prove our value and make a difference, we need a clear plan of action!

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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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Why IT leaders are putting more business spin on security spend

CIO

Gartner projects that spending on information security and risk management products and services will grow 11.3% to reach more than $188.3 billion this year. But despite those expenditures, there have already been at least 13 major data breaches, including at Apple, Meta and Twitter. To better focus security spend, some chief information security officers (CISOs) are shifting their risk assessments from IT systems to the data, applications, and processes that keep the business going.

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Online Traders Need to Take the Threats of Data Breaches Seriously

Smart Data Collective

Data breaches in the financial sector have become a major concern for businesses and consumers alike. With the increasing reliance on digital transactions and data storage, it has become more important than ever for financial institutions to ensure that their data is secure. Unfortunately, due to the complexity of financial systems and the potential for malicious actors to exploit weaknesses in security protocols, data breaches are becoming more common in this sector.

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Announcing a $100 Million Investment Led By CapitalG and the Launch of New Generative AI Capabilities

Alpha Sense BI

For AlphaSense, 2022 was a transformative year: we crossed $100mm in ARR, raised $225 million in a Series D financing round, doubled our valuation, doubled our subscriber base, and acquired two incredible companies, Stream and Sentieo. 2023 is gearing up to be even more pivotal. Today, I’m delighted to announce a $100 million extension to our Series D financing round, led by CapitalG, Alphabet’s independent growth fund, and existing investors, including Goldman Sachs and Viking Global.

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Creating Business Impact Owners at Every Level through Data Experiences—A Q&A with Product Leader Ben Schein

Domo

Think about a time you had a bold question at work—one that you knew getting the answer to would positively impact your company. Did you know where to go to find the answer? How did you dig up—and make sense of—the information? Did the information give you the confidence to make a decision or act on what you found? For Ben Schein , Domo’s Senior Vice President of Product, this is the difference between a rigid business intelligence report and an exceptional data experience.

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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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Buying advice for CIOs as low-code/no-code spending rises

CIO

Faced with a long-running shortage of experienced professional developers, enterprise IT leaders have been exploring fresh ways of unlocking software development talent by training up non-IT staff and deploying tools that enable even business users to build or customize applications to suit their needs. A broad spectrum of tools has arisen to facilitate software development in the enterprise, from no-code platforms like Bubble and low-code drag-and-drop tools , both stand-alone and integrated in

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ChatGPT is Hot—What’s Hotter is Pragmatic AI

IBI

Reading Time: 3 minutes When your (non-technical) mother asks you what ChatGPT is, as mine did last week, you know that data science and analytics have transcended science fiction’s scope and are now part of widespread popular culture. Although Large Language Learning Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT and other forms of generative artificial intelligence are having their disruptive moment in the spotlight, various Gartner Hype Cycles point to other analytics and data science trends that bear watching.

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Getting Started With Incremental Sales – Best Practices & Examples

Datapine Blog

Table of Contents 1) What Are Incremental Sales? 2) Why Do You Need Incremental Sales 3) Incremental Sales Best Practices 4) KPIs To Help Boost Incremental Sales 5) Incremental Sales Challenges To ensure a sustainable level of commercial success in our cutthroat digital age, offering value, driving consumer loyalty, and consistently surpassing your targets are of the utmost importance.

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5 environmental justice hashtags that drove real-world impact

Infegy

It’s been over a decade since hashtag-driven movements like #IceBucketChallenge and #IranElections made it clear that social media activism could indeed propel real-world action. For example, #IceBucketChallenge resulted in a 187% increase in research funding for ALS and #IranElections functioned as an organizing tool for protests over the disputed 2011 election in Iran.

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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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Novanta’s Sarah Betadam on transforming the IT model status quo

CIO

Over the next five years, the healthcare industry is expected to go through dramatic changes as service providers expand value-based care models and equipment manufacturers strive to keep pace in a digital-first world. One factor driving global transformation is the push to bring healthcare services, as well as responsibilities and control, closer to consumers.

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Prospecting Clients: Effective Pricing Strategies for Sales Conversations

Owler

Pricing is an essential component of sales conversations. It can make or break a sale, and positioning it effectively can be challenging, but using the right pricing strategies when prospecting clients can help you close more deals and boost your bottom line. The importance of positioning price effectively in your sales conversations Positioning price effectively means communicating the value of your product or service in a way that proves it is reasonable and fair.

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Using the Intelligence Connector to Identify Influencers and KOLs

Netbasequid

Boosting your brand’s visibility is critical in today’s ever-expanding market. Consumers have more options to pick from than ever before, and it’s essential that you find ways to stand out. Influencers to the rescue! NetBase Quid’s® Intelligence Connector combines your internal data and business intelligence with powerful analytics-ready consumer and market intelligence, so your brand can make data-driven decisions quickly and efficiently.