Sat.Sep 14, 2019 - Fri.Sep 20, 2019

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Big Data Paves The Road For A New Generation Of Investing Apps

Smart Data Collective

Big data is changing the financial industry in a truly astounding way. Countless financial professionals are looking towards machine learning and other new tools to improve the quality of the services that they offer to their customers. K. Hussain of Atos Spain published a white paper on the growing relevance of big data in the finance and insurance verticals.

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10 Tweetable Marketing Productivity Quotes

Zoominfo

Everyone in this line of work strives to increase marketing productivity – but, as with any profession, there are productivity roadblocks around every corner. Sometimes it’s poor planning. Sometimes it’s unanticipated distractions. And sometimes you just need a quick dose of motivation. If you fall into that last category, we have just the thing for you.

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Competitive advantage and how to gain it

Primary Intelligence

A competitive advantage is defined as the ability of a company to demonstrate a perceivable difference in their product that elevates it over that of their competitors. To make your product stand out against the competition, there are a few steps you can take that will have the most impact. Competitive Advantage starts with knowing what the market wants.

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Faces of Fuld: Q&A with Kimberlee Luce, Senior Director, Consumer Products + Retail

Fuld

Kimberlee Luce has more than 20 years of experience in business research and consulting and has a unique blend of expertise rooted in opportunity analysis, competitor strategy and building effective distribution models in highly fragmented markets. She has provided market and competitive intelligence to some of the world’s largest and most ambitious companies taking her to places as diverse as Peru, Nigeria and China.

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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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Machine Learning Is The Latest Stage Of Text To Speech Technology

Smart Data Collective

Machine learning has played a very important role in the development of technology that has a large impact on our everyday lives. However, machine learning is also influencing the direction of technology that is not as commonplace. Text to speech technology is a prime example. Text to speech technology predates machine learning by over a century. However, machine learning has made the technology more reliable than ever.

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10 Link Building Lies You Must Ignore

Moz

Posted by David_Farkas Even though link building has been a trade for more than a decade, it’s clear that there is still an enormous amount of confusion around it. Every so often, there is a large kerfuffle. Some of these controversies and arguments arise simply from a necessity to fill a content void, but some of them arise from genuine concern and confusion: “Don’t ask for links!”.

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KPI Software Helps You Manage with Insight!

Elegant BI

KPI Tools Provide Accurate and Clear Metrics and Measurements! If your business is like most, you are trying to focus on the facts! You want to measure results and make plans, using the facts rather than opinion or guesswork but that can be difficult. Key performance indicators (KPIs) allow you to establish and monitor metrics and measurements that will tell you whether activities, tasks, and processes are getting you to your goals and helping you to meet your objectives.

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How Up-And-Coming Music Companies Use Big Data For Optimal Results

Smart Data Collective

Big data has brought major changes to countless industries. Healthcare, finance, criminal justice, and manufacturing have all been touched by advances in big data. However, big data is also transforming other industries. The music industry is relying more on big data than ever. Darren Heitner wrote a great article on Inc. About the way that big data is revolutionizing the industry.

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Direct Dials: More Than Meets The Eye

Zoominfo

Today’s story features the seemingly simple direct-dial phone number. And I’m here to tell you, there’s a lot more to this piece of contact information than meets the eye. They say absence makes the heart grow fonder. Well, this story starts when I had a great opportunity at a young age to work for a third-generation entrepreneur who taught me the way to really sell business to business over the phone.

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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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Ep. 230 - Phil Ahad - How Insights are Being used Across all Functions, and the Changing role of Insights' Platforms

Happy Market

My guest today is Phil Ahad, Chief Digital Officer at Toluna. Founded in 2000, Toluna produces online surveys and manages a consumer community of over 24 million active members in 68 countries. Prior to joining Toluna, Phil lead marketing and product strategy teams across many different industries, and has held senior-level positions at CoStar, AOL, and ComScore.

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Is Advanced Data Discovery Suitable for Business Users?

Elegant BI

Is Augmented Data Discovery Easy Enough for My Business Users? A data discovery tool is a crucial tool for every business user in your organization. With so many sources of data, in so many locations with your enterprise, it is impossible for users to know whether they have access to complete, accurate data to make decisions. With the right Advanced Analytics Tools , business users can have access to data integrated from disparate data sources and can use that date for Advanced Data Discovery

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AI Paves The Road For Incredible Changes In The Gaming Industry

Smart Data Collective

I recently read a great post from The Verge on the impact of AI on the video gaming industry. Author Nick Statt made a great point about the evolution of AI in the industry. Pratt pointed out that AI has been a factor in the video game industry since the very beginning. Some of the AI tools that we see today resemble those in the 1980 game Rogue. Of course, AI has improved dramatically over the last 40 years.

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How to Automate Pagespeed Insights For Multiple URLs using Google Sheets

Moz

Posted by James_McNulty Calculating individual page speed performance metrics can help you to understand how efficiently your site is running as a whole. Since Google uses the speed of a site (frequently measured by and referred to as PageSpeed ) as one of the signals used by its algorithm to rank pages , it's important to have that insight down to the page level.

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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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The desperate Competitive Intelligence professional?

Academyci

By Dr. Ben Gilad. In May of this year 2019 I posted an article on LinkedIn titled, “Is Competitive Intelligence dead? Yes. No. Depends.” It had 59 comments, which was gratifying. Yesterday there was an advert for a webinar posing an ominous heading of “the end of line for CI?” OK, so it’s riding on the theme of my post, which is OK. I am used to it.

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Can Business Users Leverage Self-Serve Data Prep?

Elegant BI

How About Giving Your Business Users the Power to Prepare Data for Analysis? Can Your Business Achieve Self-Serve Data Prep? Lots of my friends talk about the difficulty of preparing data for analysis and how long it takes to get IT or data scientists or analysts to take on the project, get the data prepared and run reports or perform analytics. Frankly, this problem is a puzzle to me!

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5 Benefits Of Machine Learning In Enterprise Electrical Systems

Smart Data Collective

Machine learning is creating pivotal change in the energy industry. Towards Data Science wrote about the changes that machine learning is bringing to this field. They pointed out that Bill Gates wrote a letter in 2017 to graduate students across the country, which stated that machine learning is going to be the biggest disruptor in this industry. You need to consider the benefits of using an electrical system that relies on machine learning technology.

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5G Vision 2025: Unlocking Strategies for Stakeholders with Dr. Sanjay Gupta and Marios Nicolaou

BIS Research

The technology has significantly evolved in various industries, such as automotive, manufacturing, and construction, in terms of enhanced safety measures, connectivity, cost reduction, and convenience of users. The process of the evolution of communication networks has proven to be an essential part of the network technology ecosystem. The changing paradigm of the consumer as well as enterprise market, requirement of higher bandwidth, increasing data traffic across industries, coupled with conge

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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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Introducing a new news feed for Owler Pro customers

Owler

Today we are excited to introduce an entirely new way to experience the news! Introducing the new news feed for Owler Pro Customers! Check it out here! Over the last few months, we interviewed dozens of users about how we could improve the news experience for Owler Pro. Regardless of their role (e.g., sales, marketing, customer success, superhero), a few points kept coming up.

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American Healthcare Affordability and the Top Concerns of Social Media

Digimind

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Why Local SEO Strategies Require AI Technology – Here’s Why

Smart Data Collective

AI barely played a role in the beginning of online search engines. The earliest search engines accepted payments from companies that wanted to be at the top of the listings. However, AI is becoming more important than ever. Google is using AI to assign SERPs more than ever. Savvy SEO strategists are also using AI too. AI is also important in local SEO, because businesses need to know how to automate essential functions and identify approaches that get the best results.

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How to Onboard Clients with Immersion Workshops - Whiteboard Friday

Moz

Posted by HeatherPhysioc Spending quality time getting to know your client, their goals and capabilities, and getting them familiar with their team sets you up for a better client-agency relationship. Immersion workshops are the answer. Learn more about how to build a strong foundation with your clients in this week's Whiteboard Friday presented by Heather Physioc.

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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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Ep. 231 - MrWeb Series - Isaac Rogers of 20|20 Research on Benefits to Investing in ResearchOps Automation

Happy Market

My guest today is Isaac Rogers, CEO of 20|20 Research. Established in 1984, 20|20 believes in the power of giving consumers a voice, and has spent more than 30 years finding ways to simplify connections between brands and consumers, enabling the consumer to share their stories. Prior to joining 20|20 in 2008, 20|20 has developed methods and tools used worldwide for qualitative and hybrid research studies.

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Tableau explains your data with new natural-language tool

CIO

Self-service analytics tools have long empowered users to produce data visualizations without the need for IT intervention. Recent advances, such as data prep automation, have further lowered the barrier of entry, but this push to democratize analytics surely has its limits. After all, users still have to interpret the data visualizations they produce.

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Important Rotary Joint Selection Strategies In The IoT Era

Smart Data Collective

Big data is changing the nature of mechanical systems in every way imagineable. This means that you need to consider the implications of big data when choosing mechanical components for various systems. Rotary joints are a prime example. How Rotary Joints Impact the Trasnmission of Data. A rotary joint is a device utilized to transfer (pressurized or under vacuum) fluid from a passage supply to a rotating outlet providing a mechanical sealing to the system.

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Smarten Offers 30-day Free Trial of Augmented Analytics Solution on AWS Marketplace

Elegant BI

The Smarten suite of advanced analytics tools is now available for a free 30-day trial on the AWS Marketplace. This augmented analytics solution includes smart data visualization, assisted predictive modeling and a self-serve data preparation assisted by machine learning to help business users without any data science skills to create, use and share predictive models on their own.

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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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MrWeb Series - Graeme Lawrence of Join the Dots I InSites Consulting on Ways Agile Research Fails, and How to Ensure You Don’t

Happy Market

My guest today is Graeme Lawrence, Managing Partner at Join the Dots I InSites Consulting. Established in 1998, Join the Dots is a global consumer insight agency that helps companies make better business decisions through a deep understanding of people. Find Graeme Online: LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/graeme-lawrence-4b930a6/?originalSubdomain=uk Website: www.jointhedotsmr.com Find Jamin Online: Email: jamin@happymr.com LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/jaminbrazil Twitter: www.twitter.com/jamin

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Business Intelligence Tools Can be Easy to Use!

Elegant BI

A Great BI Solution with Easy-to-Use Tools! A great business intelligence tool does not have to be complicated or expensive. If you want to do it right, you should strive for data democratization and look for a BI solution that is designed for business users with average technical skills. BI software that is meant to be used by your business users will allow for quick and accurate decisions, ensure that everyone is working with the right information.