Smart Data Collective
DECEMBER 1, 2022
The world of big data is constantly changing and evolving, and 2021 is no different. As we look ahead to 2022, there are four key trends that organizations should be aware of when it comes to big data: cloud computing, artificial intelligence, automated streaming analytics, and edge computing. Each of these trends will continue to shape the way companies use data in the coming years.
CIO
DECEMBER 1, 2022
For any IT leader new to an organization, gaining employee trust is paramount — especially when, like PepsiCo’s Athina Kanioura, you’ve been brought in to transform the way work gets done. Kanioura, who was hired away from Accenture two years ago to serve as the food and beverage multinational’s first chief strategy and transformation officer, says earning employee trust was one of her greatest challenges in those early months.
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Chris Webb BI
NOVEMBER 28, 2022
One of the most popular topics I’ve ever written about here is the dataset refresh errors you get with dynamic data sources and the Web.Contents function in Power BI (see here and here for example). Recently I learned about an interesting new detail regarding this problem that I thought was worth blogging about, and which may help someone trying to troubleshoot it.
mention
DECEMBER 2, 2022
Landing pages are a popular tool used in inbound marketing to attract customers and generate leads. But simply creating a landing page and waiting for the leads to come isn’t enough. You need to create effective landing pages that encourage a visitor to become a lead. What are landing pages? A landing page is a dedicated page that seeks to drive leads and conversions.
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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.
Smart Data Collective
NOVEMBER 29, 2022
The Internet of Things (IoT) has changed our lives in extraordinary ways. A number of new IoT devices have made it easier to manage smart homes and have improved or lives. According to Dell Technologies, there will be over 41.6 billion IoT devices online by 2025 , as more people discover their benefits. More homeowners and businesses are looking for IoT devices to invest in.
CIO
DECEMBER 1, 2022
By Milan Shetti, CEO Rocket Software In today’s digitalized world, customers value transparency and accessibility above all else. As a result, organizations are taking a proactive approach to provide critical content to end users at the click of a button. For over 130 years, Hastings Mutual Insurance Company has served and protected its clients throughout the Midwest.
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FedSavvy
NOVEMBER 28, 2022
Does your capture team want to try a trick play to get a competitive advantage? This can work (perhaps) if you clear it with the referee (a.k.a. your customer), but it can go very badly. Being creative in capture strategy and solution development can help your prospective chance to win (a.k.a. the dreaded Pwin). This is especially important when many competitions are the proverbial game of inches.
Smart Data Collective
NOVEMBER 29, 2022
Cloud technology has driven a number of changes in the financial sector. Alternative financial systems such as cryptocurrency trading have also changed as a result of cloud technology. We have talked about the benefits of using the cloud to trade bitcoins in developing economies like Algeria. However, it can be even more useful for trading newer currencies.
CIO
NOVEMBER 29, 2022
In a bid to help enterprises offer better customer service and experience , Amazon Web Services (AWS) on Tuesday, at its annual re:Invent conference, said that it was adding new machine learning capabilities to its cloud-based contact center service, Amazon Connect. AWS launched Amazon Connect in 2017 in an effort to offer a low-cost, high-value alternative to traditional customer service software suites.
Intelligence Node
NOVEMBER 30, 2022
What is the Price Waterfall? The “Price Waterfall” is a price optimization tool (or technique of analysis) that allows businesses to identify hidden costs. It is used to calculate the. The post Eliminate Margin Leakages with the Price Waterfall appeared first on Blog.
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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.
MarketCulture
NOVEMBER 30, 2022
If you ask senior leaders how customer-centric is the business they lead, the chances are that they will be much more positive than the reality. If you ask 10 people in a business from different functions how customer-centric their business is, they will likely give widely different opinions. If you ask 500 people, you will definitely get a wide variety of views.
Smart Data Collective
NOVEMBER 28, 2022
Last September, various news outlets picked up the story of an AI-generated painting taking first place at the Colorado State Fair’s art contest. To create the winning piece, the contestant entered some text into Midjourney, an online app that creates images based on text input. The result is a piece called ‘Théâtre D’opéra Spatial,’ one of the first AI-generated images to win an art contest.
CIO
DECEMBER 1, 2022
“Our sustainability goals and key performance indicators are important to us. We’re committed to achieve net-zero carbon emissions in areas we can influence by 2030 with a three-pronged approach that includes avoidance, reduction and compensation.” — Arthur Schneider, Head of Sustainability Management One of Europe’s largest IT services providers, Bechtle offers a full IT portfolio to more than 70,000 enterprises and public sector customers in 14 countries throughout Europe.
Intelligence Node
NOVEMBER 30, 2022
What is the Price Waterfall? The “Price Waterfall” is a price optimization tool (or technique of analysis) that allows businesses to identify hidden costs. It is used to calculate the. The post How the Price Waterfall can Increase Profitability? appeared first on Blog.
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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
Wink Intel
DECEMBER 1, 2022
— FOR IMMEDIATE DISTRIBUTION — . NEWS RELEASE. NON-VARIABLE LIFE INSURANCE SALES FALL. Wink, Inc. Releases Third Quarter, 2022 Life Sales Results. Des Moines, Iowa. December 1 st , 2022 – Wink, Inc. released the third quarter, 2022 life sales results in its 101 st edition of Wink’s Sales & Market Report. Wink’s Sales & Market Report is the insurance industry’s #1 resource for life insurance sales data, since 1997.
Smart Data Collective
NOVEMBER 29, 2022
Data analytics technology has had a profound effect on the nature of customer engagement. Analytics is especially important for companies trying to optimize their online presence. Website optimization is absolutely vital for any brand striving to do business online. According to Northern Arizona University, 88% of customers will leave a website due to a poor user experience.
CIO
NOVEMBER 30, 2022
Seemingly since the beginning of time, CIOs have been working to change their IT organizations from “order takers” into “business partners.” They have established business relationship management functions , developed “we are the business” rallying cries, and built leadership development programs emphasizing influence, courage, and business acumen. These efforts have had a positive impact, but an incremental one.
Dataversity
DECEMBER 1, 2022
In early October, The White House published its so-called Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights, a set of guidelines encouraging tech companies to deploy artificial intelligence more responsibly. The guidelines are not binding but have been conceived to persuade tech companies to further protect consumers, including explaining why an automated system is in use.
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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
Wink Intel
DECEMBER 1, 2022
Non-Variable UL. Sales for the third quarter of 2022 were $766 million, compared with sales of $717 million for the third quarter of 2021. Third quarter non-variable life sales were down nearly 3% when compared to the previous quarter and up nearly 7% as compared to the same period last year. Non-variable universal life (UL) sales include both indexed UL and fixed UL product sales.
Smart Data Collective
NOVEMBER 28, 2022
It’s hard to overestimate the value that data insights have come to represent to today’s businesses. Investments in analytics tech have risen commensurately, with some 73 percent of respondents telling IDC that they expect to spend more on data-focused software than any other category in 2023. While emphasizing data analytics has become the standard for the business community as a whole, smaller teams are often the exception.
CIO
NOVEMBER 29, 2022
By Milan Shetti, CEO Rocket Software If we’ve learned anything over the last few years facing a global pandemic, stalled supply chains, rising inflation, and sinking economies, it’s that change is the new normal in today’s markets. In response, organizations have invested heavily in digital transformation. IDC forecasts that global spending on digital transformation will reach $2.8 trillion by 2025 — more than double what was spent in 202 As organizations amp up their digital transformation init
Netbasequid
NOVEMBER 30, 2022
Facebook and Twitter are two of the top social platforms where consumers gather. On these sites, people discuss anything and everything from family and food, to brands they love and hate. Social media monitoring tools can assist companies in staying on top of all this chatter. Consumers view social media as an extension of themselves, and as such, it’s a part of their daily routine.
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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
Dataversity
NOVEMBER 28, 2022
Many companies have been criticized in recent years for mismanaging data. For example, a major social media conglomerate recently came under fire for reports that user data was accessible to employees, leading lawmakers to call for an investigation by the F.T.C. This has piqued concern for data privacy once again and shines a light on the lack of […].
Domo
NOVEMBER 28, 2022
The World Cup is underway, and it’s already one for the history books. It’s expected that more than 5 billion people (more than half the planet) will tune in and watch the crowning event of the beautiful game. While this historic event has been happening for nearly 100 years, this year’s tournament has continued to shape the game and introduce new elements never before seen.
CIO
NOVEMBER 29, 2022
Just hear those phone lines jingling, ring ting tingle-ing too. After the last slice of Thanksgiving pie has been served, millions of people will rush out the door to score the best deals of the year. Then they’ll call: about shipping delays, return policies, order details, discount codes, you name it – on top of all the other inquiries your contact center normally handles.
Netbasequid
NOVEMBER 28, 2022
From its lowly beginnings as a compliance issue in the second half of the last century, patient engagement has evolved into a superpower enhancing health outcomes, reducing healthcare costs, and boosting satisfaction with the process. If that doesn’t sound miraculous enough, patient engagement has been shown to reduce mortality rates. Different studies compared the outcomes of people living with chronic illnesses and found less mortalities among those who were actively engaged in the treatment p
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.
IBI
NOVEMBER 29, 2022
Reading Time: 4 minutes. Getting innovative value from data today depends on leveraging data in the cloud—and at scale. This means that a small number of private mega-cloud platform companies based primarily in the US and China have an outsized impact on innovation. There’s further risk that this handful of companies will fail to meet EU privacy needs for data sovereignty at a time when innovation demands more and more data to fuel artificial intelligence projects.
Timo Elliot
NOVEMBER 26, 2022
The power of artificial intelligence is showing us what the prescriptive future of computer systems should look like. This Diffuse The Rest algorithm lets you scribble a picture, add a description, and it paints what you imagined. I’m just about to get on a plane to Dubai for a partner conference, so I quickly scribbled what I imagined my arrival might look like, and added a description.
CIO
NOVEMBER 28, 2022
Education is changing. In part, this shift is driven by students, who increasingly demand virtual and hybrid learning experiences that better match the ways they like to consume content at home. Meanwhile, virtual education has become an essential element of resilience for educational institutions by ensuring that students don’t fall behind during closures.
BI Insight
NOVEMBER 28, 2022
As you may already know, Power BI is not a report-authoring tool only. Indeed, it is much more than that. Power BI is an all-around data platform supporting many aspects you’d expect from such a platform. You can ingest the data from various data sources, transform it, model it, visualise and share it with others. … Continue reading Content Endorsement in Power BI, Part 1, The Basics.
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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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