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IT leaders get creative to fill data science gaps

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For the past few years, IT leaders at a US financial services company have been struggling to hire data scientists to harness the increasing flood of incoming data that, if used properly, could improve customer experience and drive new products. To deal with this hiring problem, they’ve had to get creative. They’re not just offering remote work and flexible hours.

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Podcast Episode: Taking a Tiered Approach to Your Competitive Landscape

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Another month is here and you know what that means — a brand new episode of Into the Fray: The Competitive Intelligence Podcast !

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Can Predictive Analytics Help Traders Navigate Bitcoin’s Volatility?

Smart Data Collective

Bitcoin has experienced tremendous price volatility in recent months. Traders are struggling to make sense of these patterns. Fortunately, new predictive analytics algorithms can make this easier. The financial industry is becoming more dependent on machine learning technology with each passing day. Last summer, a report by Deloitte showed that more CFOs are using predictive analytics technology.

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The Best CRM Software for Every Type of Business

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Keeping track of customer demands and communications is becoming an increasingly complex discipline. The buyer’s journey today spans a growing number of touchpoints, and people expect the businesses that they interact with to know more about them as the relationship grows beyond marketing and sales nurture to encompass support , success and even advocacy.

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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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7 traits of inspirational IT leaders

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All successful CIOs know how to instruct, motivate, energize, and even excite their teams. Yet only a relative handful of IT leaders can truly be described as inspirational figures, capable of leading their teams to goals that collegues at other enterprises can only dream about. CIOs who are purposefully positive and responsible, with a focus on integrity, tend to inspire others, says Ola Chowning, a partner at global technology research and advisory firm ISG.

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5 Vital Business Intelligence Tips All Companies Should Embrace

Smart Data Collective

Business intelligence is an integral part of any business strategy. It helps to turn your data or objectives into something meaningful. Business intelligence software can integrate information and present it in dashboards, reports, or graphs. Sixty-four percent of BI users have felt it was very helpful. It is also essential for a business to have a bi consultant who helps the business enhance its data strategy and processes.

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Yet Another Power BI (And Synapse) Book Roundup

Chris Webb BI

I like free stuff and I like books, so of course I like free books – and it seems that the more I provide free publicity for relevant books here the more free books I get sent. I’ve now got enough to merit writing another post covering those I’ve received recently from various publishers and authors. As always these are not reviews, just short summaries of books you might want to check out.

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Why Flexibility Is Driving the Future of Business Success

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During the past few years, business leaders experienced a crash course of invaluable lessons. While there was plenty to learn throughout the pandemic, perhaps the most important takeaway was the value of being agile and flexible in the face of fast-moving changes. The businesses with the resilience to roll with the punches have fared measurably better than those lacking a fast-acting ability to protect operations, technology, and employees from crisis and chaos.

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How to Write a Better Battlecard: Follow the ABCs

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If you’re working with a sales team actively involved in competitive deals, you’re probably familiar with battlecards. Battlecards are a fundamental resource to help your sales team win more deals when frequently faced with familiar competitors.

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How Will Virgo Season Impact Your ESG Communication?

3BL’s in-house experts merge the celestial wisdom of astrology with current environmental, social, governance (ESG) communication trends to offer a unique perspective and practical advice on sharing your company’s commitments effectively. 3BL’s new “Navigating ESG Comms through the Cosmos” series begins with Virgo season! In this edition, we delve into: How businesses have responded to environmental disasters over the past few months and why you can expect a continued focus on the climate crisis

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4 Ways for Data-Driven Startups to Find Electronics Online

Smart Data Collective

Are you planning on running a startup that relies heavily on data analytics technology ? This is a smart decision. A report by Entrepreneur shows that companies that use big data have 8% higher profits. They also cut expenses by an average of 10%. There are tons of great benefits of using big data to run your company. You can improve marketing strategies with big data , improve employee productivity, meet compliance targets and track trends more easily.

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The Need for Speed: Intelligent Lead Routing Means Faster Prospect Connections

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In an ideal world, B2B revenue teams would run with lightning-fast lead response times, streamlined operations, and an aligned sales and marketing team. But can all of that be possible at the same time? Without a doubt. A sales funnel powered by volume and velocity is vital to stay competitive in today’s market. Intelligent lead routing is a key component of that effective, speedy sales motion.

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Data tokenization: A new way of data masking

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While researchers examined the pandemic in relation to how companies managed to keep afloat in such an unprecedented situation, auditors assessed the increased data vulnerability, lack of data compliance, and costs incurred by such events. As businesses were forced to adapt new styles of working and adapt technologies, they struggled to meet security compliance standards like the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and lagged in responding to data breaches.

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Effortlessly Manage Your Social Media Calendar with Publish

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Scheduling content in advance is a great way to stay organized with your brand’s social media presence and online strategy. Through the use of a content calendar tool, the ability to schedule content can now be quick and centralized providing you with a macro view of your online communications. The Calendar View can be found in the Publish tool within the Mention platform.

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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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5 Tips to Improve the Data Security of Software Applications

Smart Data Collective

In today’s world, data is increasingly being shared and stored electronically. Therefore, the need to protect data from unauthorized access or theft is more important than ever. The of data breaches cannot be overstated. Over 440 million data records were exposed in data breaches in 2018 alone. This figure is growing as more people work from home and don’t take adequate precautions.

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3 Proven Ways to Turn Cold Calls into Warm Leads

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Even in today’s data-driven sales landscape, cold calling remains a fact of life for many sales professionals. But cold calling isn’t just a major investment of time and energy, it’s precious time that could be better spent connecting with warm leads — prospects who want to hear from you and are ready to spend. Fortunately, today’s salespeople have a crucial advantage over their predecessors — an abundance of data.

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A Joint Venture Revolutionizes Construction Logistics

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Construction logistics have traditionally been complicated, intensive, and error-prone and, until recently, there was little indication that this was going to change. Ordering can be maddening, delivery points are often overloaded, and larger construction companies average 150,000 receipts annually. Processing those receipts has long been a challenge in itself.

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Data Lake vs. Data Warehouse: What’s the Difference?

IT Business Edge

Data lakes and data warehouses are two of the most popular forms of data storage and processing platforms, both of which can be employed to improve a business’s use of information. However, these tools are designed to accomplish different tasks, so their functions are not exactly the same. We’ll go over those differences here, so you have a clear idea of what each one entails and choose which would suit your business needs.

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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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5 Reasons SoD Protocols Are Vital to Modern Data Security

Smart Data Collective

Data breaches are becoming far more common these days. Security Magazine reports that over 22 billion records were exposed in the over 4,000 publicly disclosed data breaches last year. The actual number is likely higher, since many data breaches are never reported. We have talked extensively about the importance of taking precautions to prevent data breaches.

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Enterprise APIs: Funnel Fresh Business Data Directly Into Your Tech Stack

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Go-to-market (GTM) teams rely on accurate business data to prioritize, engage, and serve their customers to the fullest. But unreliable data spread across siloed, disconnected systems too often impedes a team’s ability to achieve its revenue goals. Application programming interfaces (APIs) make it easy to connect revenue teams with high-quality data across multiple systems.

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How a CIO’s approach to cloud, AI and ML is transforming Nigeria’s Dangote Industries

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Prasanna Burri began his career as a mechanical engineer in India but had a secret passion for IT. His endeavour to get into the technology space led him to learn about enterprise application platforms and he eventually started his ERP career at IBM. Later he joined SAP Labs in the US where he was immersed in product management for cloud technology.

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The ABC’s of Promotional Pricing for a Successful Retail Business

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Understanding Promotional Pricing and its Common Usage Regardless of whether we as marketers or consumers immediately recognize the phrase, promotional pricing has long since had its place in the commercial. The post The ABC’s of Promotional Pricing for a Successful Retail Business appeared first on Blog.

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ABM Evolution: How Top Marketers Are Using Account-Based Strategies

In times of economic uncertainty, account-based strategies are essential. According to several business analysts and practitioners, ABM is a necessity for creating more predictable revenue. Research shows that nearly three-quarters of marketers (74%) already have the resources needed to build successful ABM programs.

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5 Setmore Alternatives that Use Big Data to Manage Appointments

Smart Data Collective

Big data technology has helped businesses improve efficiency in many important ways. Many companies are using big data to streamline many different aspects of their business. They use data analytics tools to improve financial management, One of the ways that many companies are using big data is to improve the way that they manage appointments. They can use data-driven appointment management tools to make this process easier than ever.

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The Three Remote Work Models

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For many employers, the initial scramble to implement remote work policies has now become a durable part of post-COVID work life. In the aftermath of this massive shift, many employers are taking a good look at how they can embrace remote work and build company cultures that help remote employees thrive. Here, we present the three dominant remote work models, their benefits, and how they compare.

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Australia’s IT leadership moves 2022

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Digital transformation has continued to gain space across public and private sectors. As IT is the fuel for digitisation, enterprise technology leaders are increasingly being sought after by companies. CIO Australia consistently tracks the moves of IT leaders. Here’s an update on the moves of Australian IT leaders starting from June 2022. If you want to share your next move with us, please message our A/NZ editor.

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What’s New With Google Vertex AI?

IT Business Edge

Sundar Pichai introduced Vertex AI to the world during the Google I/O 2021 conference last year, placing it against managed AI platforms such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Azure in the global AI market. The Alphabet CEO once said, “Machine learning is a core, transformative way by which we’re rethinking how we’re doing everything.” A November 2020 study by Gartner predicted a near-20% growth rate for managed services like Vertex AI.

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Is Your ESG Communication a Walking Red Flag?

One moment, you're proudly releasing your annual report, and before you know it, six months have passed and attention has shifted. Not communicating your impact consistently to key stakeholders is what we call an ESG communication red flag. Think of red flags as common mistakes that hinder stakeholder engagement. While these slips in communication are rarely intentional, they can have a significant impact on how your ESG efforts are perceived.