CIO

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The economy may be looking uncertain, but technology continues to drive the business and CIOs are investing big in 2023. At the same time, they are defunding technologies that no longer contribute to business strategy or growth. It’s not a stretch to say that across the board, CIOs are continuing to invest in some form of AI. Upgrading cloud infrastructure is critical for deploying broad AI initiatives more quickly, so that’s a key area where investments are being made this year.

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Smart Data Collective

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Artificial intelligence technology has massively disrupted the financial sector. Joe McKendrick posted an article in Forbes on the role that AI will play in the coming democratization of financial services. There are many other reasons AI and big data technology is changing finance. One of the biggest is that more financial institutions are using predictive analytics tools to assist with asset management.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

By George Trujillo, Principal Data Strategist, DataStax Increased operational efficiencies at airports. Instant reactions to fraudulent activities at banks. Improved recommendations for online transactions. Better patient care at hospitals. Investments in artificial intelligence are helping businesses to reduce costs, better serve customers, and gain competitive advantage in rapidly evolving markets.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

We’re excited to announce that our annual Sustainability Report has just been published. At ZoomInfo, we are dedicated to the sustainability of our business, people, and communities. This means fostering an environment and building a platform of products that makes our employees and customers proud. This report looks at our environmental, social and governance responsibilities over the past year, along with our short- and long-term goals.

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Aqute Intelligence

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

In almost every competitive intelligence project, sales is an important focus. What is the competitor doing to succeed in sales? What is their messaging? How do they price proposals? Most companies want to know many of the same questions about their competitors. Across the hundreds of research projects that we have conducted, these are the top ten questions about competitors’ sales activities that our customers want answered.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

For many of today’s global enterprises, it’s a struggle to adapt quickly to emerging challenges. With supply chain issues and the impending recession, digital transformation remains a pressing strategic imperative. However, key digital transformation milestones remain out of reach for far too many teams. To make real strides in each of these areas, Value Stream Management (VSM) has emerged as an urgent demand.

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Zoominfo

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

For many sales professionals, today’s business environment is unlike anything they’ve ever seen. Broad economic and societal shifts — amplified by the COVID-19 pandemic and continued technological disruption — are resulting in longer sales cycles, more discerning buyers, intensifying competition, and lingering uncertainty. To better understand the challenges and opportunities facing our customers and their businesses, we surveyed thousands of ZoomInfo users.

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FedSavvy

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

In November 2021, we examined what contractors are winning FEDSIM bids and with what federal customers. GSA FEDSIM contracting is always a hot topic so we’re exciting to bring to you some updated analysis on FEDSIM spending and winners. Top winners of FEDSIM contracts Figure 1 – Top 10 winners of FEDSIM opportunities, FY2018-FY2022. Source: USASpending.gov Booz Allen Hamilton came out on top (again) as winning the largest number of contract opportunities and received the highest obligations over

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Smart Data Collective

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

Over the last few years, the demand for student loans and financial aid has significantly increased as many employers are now dismissing applicants who are without college educations. While this was always the case for certain niches in the past, it’s becoming an increasingly popular practice even among retail and part-time positions that usually don’t have such harsh restrictions on their employees.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic led many organizations to further adopt public clouds, and geopolitical conflicts have demonstrated the importance and need for sovereign clouds. Today, many organizations are already embracing or are moving to multi-cloud environments, but this multi-cloud reality does not come without its challenges. As the nature of the cloud evolves, so does the strategy in which organizations must approach these challenges.

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Intelligence Node

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Product page optimization and management in 2023 Scrolling through the endless aisles of eCommerce offerings, even among the first few search results on a given SERP (Search engine results page), The post How Product Content Optimization Helps Brands Maximize Their Share of Shelf appeared first on Blog.

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FedSavvy

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

You may know Jacobs from their series of surprising takeaway wins executed in recent years. As some of the recompetes for these wins approach, it’s important to explore how Jacobs has changed as a competitor over the past five years. Strategic Developments The most apparent indication of change at Jacobs is their rebranding effort. In August 2022, Jacobs implemented a new holding structure, which renamed Jacobs as “Jacobs Solutions, Inc.” from “Jacobs Engineering Group, Inc.

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Smart Data Collective

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

We have talked extensively about some of the changes machine learning has introduced to the marketing profession. According to one analysis, companies that used machine learning in their marketing strategies boosted sales by up to 50%. There are a number of ways that companies can boost their marketing strategies with machine learning technology. One of the biggest benefits involves using machine learning to improve the performance of their social media marketing strategies.

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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

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CIO

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Aside from commercial real estate dealers, office equipment vendors were among the hardest hit by the massive office evacuation following the pandemic. But the death of the office was much exaggerated, say some affected CIOs, who point to an increasing number of corporate mandates for employees to return to the office for at least three days per week as the telltale of better business ahead for them.

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WideNARROW

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Why is it essential to understand customer pain points? As a Competitive or Market Intelligence professional, understanding your customers' pain points is critical to developing a winning strategy. Identifying the key challenges and frustrations that your target audience faces can help you to gain a competitive edge by developing products, services, and messaging that meet their specific needs.

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TDAN BI

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

In the publishing industry, there are a lot of things we can measure. However, if there is no strategy underlining how and why we collect data and who can access it, the value is lost. Not only that, but we can put our business at serious risk of non-compliance.

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Smart Data Collective

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

We have talked extensively about some of the biggest changes brought on by artificial intelligence technology over the last few years. Two of the many fields that has been affected by breakthroughs in AI is web development and mobile application development. We previously talked about some of the benefits of using AI to create great mobile applications.

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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

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CIO

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Straumann Group’s Sridhar Iyengar has a bold mission: To transform the nearly 70-year-old company’s data and technology organization into a data-as-a-service provider for the global manufacturer and supplier of dental implants, prosthetics, orthodontics, and digital dentistry — and to provide business stakeholders machine learning (ML) as a service as well.

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Alpha Sense BI

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

We are proud to announce we achieved ISO/IEC 27001 certification. This international standard of information security management recognizes our commitment to protecting sensitive information and our ongoing efforts to ensure the security of our infrastructure and operations. The process of obtaining the certification was a comprehensive and collaborative effort.

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Domo

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

We have done a number of blog posts on inflation and other economic indicators using data from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. However we know the world (and Domo’s user base) goes beyond just the United States so we went in search of data to help tell the broader global story of inflation. Luckily, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) collects this inflation information on many countries and cross-national organizations.

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Smart Data Collective

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Businesses around the world spent over $545 billion on cloud technology last year. A growing number of companies are discovering that it offers tremendous benefits, but there are also some downsides to it. What Are the Benefits of Cloud Computing for Businesses? Cloud computing is a term used to describe the use of computing resources, such as software, hardware, and storage, over the internet.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

“I inherited a gift from the previous CIO,” says Florida Crystals CIO Kevin Grayling. “I had a modern S/4HANA landscape for the majority of the business.” That would have been an enviable situation for many of his contemporaries in the consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry — “Some have 20 or 30 different ERP solutions,” he says — but for Grayling, the 20% of the business still running on a legacy SAP product remained a source of discomfort, and something he wanted to change.

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Dataversity

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

There are several data-driven technologies that are primed to take off this year. Based on what we are seeing with our customers, we can expect a surge in the adoption of emerging technologies like generative artificial Intelligence as well as new software architectures that will transform markets, empower consumers, and deliver new personalized customer experiences. […] The post 2023: Generative AI, IoB-Informed Products, and Other Data-Driven Technologies appeared first on DATAVERSITY.

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Netbasequid

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Now in its eighth year, NetBase Quid’s Global Love List TM has grown and adapted to reflect the increasingly sophisticated and global consumer base. As our society continues to evolve and undergo digital transformation, consumer desires and dislikes will shift as well. We seek to capture this changing insight each year in our Love List. Every day, the top loved international brands from every industry and nation battle online for market share.

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Weidert Group

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Now that it no longer exists in Google Analytics 4 (GA4), the bounce rate’s days as a useful website analytics metric are nearly history. But what does that mean for all the work you’ve invested in addressing bounce rate on your website’s pages? And what metric should you be monitoring instead of bounces? Well, Google didn’t leave a vacuum where bounce rate had been in Universal Analytics (the prior iteration of their analytics) — and frankly, marketers were using bounce rate together with time

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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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CIO

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Theo Blackwell MBE, Chief Digital Officer at the London Mayor’s Office, sits down with CIO UK editor Doug Drinkwater on CIO UK Leadership Live to give a whistle-stop tour on CDO misconceptions, smart city futures, fostering local government collaboration and balancing technological innovation with digital inclusion.

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Dataversity

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

For growth-minded organizations, the ability to effectively respond to market conditions, competitive pressures, and customer expectations is dependent on one key asset: data. But having just massive troves of data isn’t enough. The key to being truly data-driven is having access to accurate, complete, and reliable data. In fact, Gartner recently found that organizations believe […] The post How to Assess Data Quality Readiness for Modern Data Pipelines appeared first on DATAVERSITY.

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E2M

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

These days it’s not enough to have great lawyers on the team, law firms are also competing to build their online presence. 34% of consumers use a search engine when finding an attorney for their legal needs. Hence, a law firm needs the best website to build brand awareness, attract prospects, and generate leads. They also require a skilled developer to make that possible.

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