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How Big Data Has Changed the Financial Industry

Smart Data Collective

The accessibility and value of consumer data has grown substantially in the past several years. These days, nearly every company bigger than a “mom and pop” shop works to gather and analyze terabytes of data from their customers, hoping to better understand and serve them while one-upping the competition. In the financial industry, these efforts are particularly intense.

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4 Ways to Measure the Success of Your Content Marketing Strategy

Zoominfo

Is there a marketing discipline with more variables than content marketing? For one, content marketers have so many different formats and types of content to play around with. The benefits of producing marketing content are proven — but unlike other marketing initiatives, content is difficult to connect to your typical revenue metrics. Simply put, marketers […].

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Which of My Competitor's Keywords Should (& Shouldn't) I Target? - Best of Whiteboard Friday

Moz

Posted by randfish You don't want to try to rank for every one of your competitors' keywords. Like most things with SEO, it's important to be strategic and intentional with your decisions. In this fan favorite Whiteboard Friday, Rand shares his recommended process for understanding your funnel, identifying the right competitors to track, and prioritizing which of their keywords you ought to target.

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Lift Your Business: A Deep Dive Into Voice Search That Will Help Your SEO Strategy

Digimind

Thanks to virtual assistants like Siri, Alexa, and Google Assistant, voice search technology is revolutionizing the way people perform queries and look for content. This is a big jump from the traditional method of searching, where users have to type their questions into a search box.

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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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Navigating Your Career in Electrical Engineering in the Big Data Era

Smart Data Collective

Many careers have been heavily impacted by changes in big data. The big data revolution has had a profound effect on healthcare, marketing and many other fields. One of the fields that has been most affected by big data is electrical engineering. Tom Dietterich, a professor of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Portland State University, has written an article on the impact of big data in this field.

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How the Absence of a Taxonomy Impacts Organisations

Contify

It will be a mistake to view organisations as machines, where separate components performing various functions in a pre-defined, constrained and static manner. This view benefitted us since the time of Henry Ford and through the remainder of the Industrial Age. However, the increasing complexity and speed of change in today’s business environment is forcing organisations to evolve and adapt to these dynamic conditions.

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5 Reasons Why Messenger Marketing Is Important For Your Brand

Digimind

What is Messenger Marketing? Messenger marketing connects businesses directly to customers and prospects through mobile messaging apps such as Facebook Messenger and Whatsapp.

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5 Ways Big Data Has Revolutionized Invoicing Software

Smart Data Collective

Big data is changing the nature of invoicing software in many ways. In 2015, Spend Matters wrote a detailed report on the applications of big data in the e-invoicing industry. This has changed the perception business owners had of invoicing applications, because they often ignored the benefits of it before then. Big Data Transforms Invoicing Software Applications.

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4 Ways to Measure the Success of Your Content Marketing Strategy

Zoominfo

Is there a marketing discipline with more variables than content marketing? For one, content marketers have so many different formats and types of content to play around with. The benefits of producing marketing content are proven — but unlike other marketing initiatives, content is difficult to connect to your typical revenue metrics. Simply put, marketers often have a tough time knowing how to measure content marketing success.

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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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Guidelines on Gathering Terms for Taxonomy

Contify

The preliminary step in developing a taxonomy is gathering candidate terms to be included in the taxonomy. The goal here is to identify terms already being used by users to describe the information. These same users will later use the taxonomy to organise and find information. Selecting terms for the taxonomy should based on the following principle: “The taxonomy is developed for a specific use case and for given users.

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KPIs to Support Business Users and Executives Alike!

Elegant BI

Self-Serve KPIs Provide Metrics in an Easy-to-Use BI Tools Environment! Businesses can no longer afford to make decisions based on gut or opinion. Today’s management teams and directors insist on measurable results and metrics that clearly demonstrate what is working, what should be changed or updated and how to get to the results they want and achieve the objectives they have set.

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Cloud And Big Data Technology Are Disrupting Injection Molding

Smart Data Collective

Injection molding is vital to the mass production of plastics and plastic products. Due to the variety of complications with mold design and mold manufacturing, and the combining of plastics and molding machines, there is difficulty in molding products with high quality and precision. However, Big Data and Cloud technology make the process simpler and improve quality.

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Raise Your BI, Finance or Marketing Game at Domopalooza

Domo

When The DICE Group —a collection of innovation teams within Thomas Jefferson University’s healthcare system—was tasked with finding a way to reduce the time it takes for patients to request appointments, it decided to start by giving them the option to fill out a shorter form and by launching a chatbot. Soon thereafter, the group turned to Domo to help it determine which form (long or short) and which platform (chatbot or standard online questionnaire) was performing best.

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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 Art and Science of Taxonomy Development for Market and Competitive Intelligence

Contify

After painstakingly collecting the market and competitive intelligence from both external and internal sources, why is it then difficult to find when we need it? Because it is not organised properly. It is not organised properly because, unlike structured data in a database, intelligence (actionable information) is inherently unstructured. It doesn’t follow any shape or form and is scattered across the internet on different websites, as well as in different folders across the organisation.

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Data Analytics vs Business Analytics!

Elegant BI

Data Analytics and Business Analytics: An Integrated Approach! What’s the difference between business analytics and data analytics? Business Analytics incorporates the skills, technologies, processes and practices to explore and understand exploration historical business performance and use that insight for business planning and issue resolution. Data Analytics utilizes analytical algorithms and techniques to prepare data, inspect, clean, transform and model, visualize, report, and predict and f

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Information Systems Careers Are the New Frontier of Big Data

Smart Data Collective

Are you looking to capitalize off of your knowledge of big data? There are a lot of careers that talented data scientists can pursue. Information systems careers are among the most promising. IBM Big Data and Analytics Hub has talked about some of the biggest changes impacting the world of big data. They found an interesting quandary that many companies are facing.

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Ep. 301 — How to ask Research Participants a Good Question

Happy Market

In this episode, we’ll hear from insight professionals at top brands and consultancies on their top tips for asking a good research question to participants as well as common mistakes and how to avoid them. Stay tuned for the following weeks to hear the individual episodes of our referenced guests. This episode is in collaboration with Lookback. In conjunction with this episode, Lookback published, "The Art of Moderating Research," and "7 Tips on how to ask the Perfect Questions.

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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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Technology is not a substitute for strategy

Mind Shifts

Do I keep a 30,000 feet overview of what’s happening in my competitive space? You bet. Do I follow those competitors carefully, analyse traffic on their websites, compare their products, prices, keywords, AdWords, page load time, linking roots domain, changing text, quality of photos, mobile optimization, or zillion other minutiae to mine, and obsess over social network chats about them and us?

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Mobile App for Tally – All Access All the Time!

Elegant BI

Tally Mobile App Gets the Job Done – No Matter What That Job Is! Tally® is such a popular application for accounting and related management tools! It is hard to imagine it being more useful than it already is but Tally Mobile App makes this popular application even more useful and beneficial. Tally on Mobile is accessible through iOS and Android devices and provides support in near real-time for managers, users and team members on the go.

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Surprising Effect of Big Data on Negligence Investigation Cases

Smart Data Collective

Like all other sectors, the healthcare industry collects, stores and uses data. The market for big data in the global healthcare sector is expected to reach $42.8 billion by 2024. When a negligence claim is being investigated, this patient data can prove extremely valuable. In this post, we’ll look at how medical and patient data is handled during a negligence investigation claim.

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Better Buys’ Office Equipment Editor’s Choice Awards – 1Q 2020

Better Buys

Better Buys has announced its 1Q 2020 Editor’s Choice Award winners for its office equipment devices. These winners represent the top manufacturers in the industry and were compiled from in-depth analysis of recently-released office equipment products. Each award recipient not only offered the greatest value and functionality but also exhibited unique features.

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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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15 Examples Of Financial Graphs And Charts You Can Use For Your Business

Datapine Blog

The financial health, flow, and fluidity of your business will ultimately dictate its long-term success, which is why monitoring your money matters carefully, comprehensively, and accurately is absolutely essential. In our data-driven digital age, ‘business intelligent’ organizations with the ability to collate, organize, and leverage the insights that are most valuable to their ongoing commercial goals are the ones that are destined to thrive in the long-term.

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Case Study – Smarten Augmented Analytics Implementation for Water and Sanitation Customer of Leading India System Integrator

Elegant BI

This Partner is a leading system integrator for public and private sector organizations in India. This System Integrator has a wide network of consultants and technology experts through which they achieve and support a presence across countries like the UK, US and India. Smarten supported the System Integrator in its effort to serve its water administration customer needs and to leverage technology to help its customer with required analytics.

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Shocking Ways Big Data Changed the Nature of Business Lending

Smart Data Collective

Businesses seeking new capital are facing a couple new changes that they need to be prepared for. Lenders are tightening their actuarial criteria and employing data driven decision making capabilities. If a company is looking to borrow money, they need to understand how big data has changed the process. They need to adapt their borrowing strategy to the new big data algorithms to improve their changes of securing a loan.

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8 Workday Alternatives to Consider

Better Buys

HCM, or human capital management, software is a type of software that your organization can use to manage your workforce. The software covers recruitment to payroll, and everything in between. Managing these aspects on your own is difficult without the right tool. Workday is a leading vendor — offering a comprehensive HCM system for medium […].

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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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Google My Business: FAQ for Multiple Businesses at the Same Address

Moz

Posted by MiriamEllis. How should I get listed in Google My Business if I’ve got multiple businesses at the same address? How many listings am I eligible for if I’m legitimately running more than one business at my location? What determines eligibility, and what penalties might I incur if I make a mistake? How should I name my businesses at the same address?

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Why is it Difficult to Build a Taxonomy?

Contify

Traditionally, we think about information in a single dimension. For example, your own folder system represents a single dimension system, where you might organise information by categories such as prospects, clients, or by name, or by type, or just by year, etc. This single-dimension model is familiar and simple to understand, but very restrictive.

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Data Outsourcing Strategies Can Skyrocket Your Website Brand

Smart Data Collective

Big data is invaluable for leveraging your brand assets. Your website is a prime example. In 2020, the benefits of big data are more accessible than ever. With a few technical skills and a detailed understanding of big data, it is very easy to start your own business from home with the help of data platforms like KissMetrics or even SAS. For example, it has become very easy to build a large online store with platforms such as WooCommerce and use drop-shipping to sell products without having to s