Sat.Mar 30, 2024 - Fri.Apr 05, 2024

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Avoid generative AI malaise to innovate and build business value

CIO

Despite the promise generative AI holds for boosting corporate productivity, closing the gap between its potential and business value remains one of CIOs’ chief challenges. It isn’t for lack of effort, as recent research suggests. Sixty-six percent of C-level executives are ambivalent or dissatisfied with the progress of their AI or GenAI efforts, according to Boston Consulting Group 1.

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Power BI Paginated Reports That Connect To Web Services And Excel

Chris Webb BI

By far the most exciting announcement for me this week was the new release of Power BI Report Builder that has Power Query built in, allowing you to connect to far more data sources in paginated reports than you ever could before. There’s a very detailed blog post and video showing you how this new functionality works here: [link] The main justification for building this feature was to allow customer to build paginated reports on sources like Snowflake or BigQuery, something which had only

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Revenue Models for AI-Powered Mobile Apps

Smart Data Collective

AI technology has led to major changes in mobile technology and has made it easier for mobile developers to monetize their apps.

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10 Ways to Build an Effective Crisis Management Strategy for Business

mention

Months of meticulous planning culminated in the highly anticipated launch of your company’s flagship product. Unfortunately, a critical bug was found in the product. It caused widespread malfunctions and bad user reviews. Public perception fell, and the carefully planned launch crumbled into chaos. While dramatic, this hypothetical scenario highlights the possibility of unforeseen crises impacting any business.

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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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Digital transformation’s fundamental change management mistake

CIO

Over the past decade, CIOs have invested significantly in digital transformation initiatives in an effort to improve customer experiences, build data analytics capabilities, and deliver productivity enhancements with automation. Underpinning these initiatives is a slew of technology capabilities and strategies aimed at accelerating delivery cycles, such as establishing product management disciplines, building cloud architectures, developing devops capabilities, and fostering agile cultures.

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Product Innovations Announced at Domopalooza 2024

Domo

We listened and we heard you. That’s the message we wanted our community to hear behind all the dazzle and fun of Domopalooza 2024. All year long, we gather feedback from our customers. What’s working well for them? What needs improvement? What changes should we prioritize to enhace their lives, streamline processes, or simplify tasks? Then, at Domopalooza 2024, we unveiled a suite of updates that we call “quality of life improvements,” specifically deisgned based on the community’s feedback.

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Unlocking the Power of Data with Process Mining 

Dataversity

Data is invaluable to an organization, but it can also represent a major stumbling block if an enterprise hasn’t optimized how data is used to support processes that run operations. Process mining can play a role in helping organizations get an objective and detailed view of process flows – including fixing bottlenecks and delays that […] The post Unlocking the Power of Data with Process Mining appeared first on DATAVERSITY.

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8 strategies for accelerating IT modernization

CIO

New tech moves from bleeding edge to mainstream at an ever-increasing pace. Consider how fast generative AI went from avant-garde to ubiquity: At under two years, it may be a record. Feats like that have ramped up pressure on CIOs to not just modernize, but modernize faster so they’re ready to seize new opportunities as they arise by having infrastructure that can support emerging technologies and a team that isn’t mired in maintenance mode.

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Get Your Eclipse Glasses Ready! Domo’s Guide to the 2024 Eclipse.

Domo

When the last eclipse happened in 2017, my brother headed to the line of totality, where you can see the moon totally eclipse the sun. He came away with amazing stories to tell. I stuck around in the Bay Area but still got to experience some of the wonder with crescent shadows of non-totality in the streets. That eclipse left me in awe that there could be a greater experience.

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AI Helps Telehealth Companies Manage Chronic Illnesses

Smart Data Collective

AI technology is leading to major breakthroughs in telehealth, which will be very beneficial for healthcare providers across the world.

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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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The Cool Kids Corner: Equity and Privacy

Dataversity

Hello! I’m Mark Horseman, and welcome to The Cool Kids Corner. This is my monthly check-in to share with you the people and ideas I encounter as a data evangelist with DATAVERSITY. This month, we’re talking about personal identifiable information (PII) and the privacy of that data, but also about ways organizations use personal data […] The post The Cool Kids Corner: Equity and Privacy appeared first on DATAVERSITY.

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AI adoption accelerates as enterprise PoCs show productivity gains

CIO

Like other CIOs, Katrina Redmond has been inundated with opportunities to deploy AI that promise to speed business and operations processes, and optimize workflows. “Everyone is running around trying to apply this technology that’s moving so fast, but without business outcomes, there’s no point to it,” says Redmond, CIO at power management systems manufacturer Eaton Corp.

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Master Storytelling, Not Mass Marketing: An Interview with Jay Acunzo

Weidert Group

“Resonance over reach” is how author and consultant Jay Acunzo approaches modern marketing With the explosion of artificial intelligence (AI), it has never been easier to crank out huge amounts of information… mediocre information, boring information, slam-your-head-against-the-wall information. Yet, many businesses (and their marketing departments) continue to churn out mountains of content and participate on every social channel simply because that method was a staple of many marketing methodo

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Analyzing the Role of Big Data in Modernizing American Elections

Smart Data Collective

Big data technology has significantly changed the state of American politics.

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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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How to Ensure Data Quality and Consistency in Master Data Management

Dataversity

In the digital age, organizations increasingly rely on data for strategic decision-making, making the management of this data more critical than ever. This reliance has spurred a significant shift across industries, driven by advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), which thrive on comprehensive, high-quality data. This evolution underscores the importance of master […] The post How to Ensure Data Quality and Consistency in Master Data Management appeared fir

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The complex patchwork of US AI regulation has already arrived

CIO

As artificial intelligence adoption has surged in the past year, many voices have called for regulation to protect people from adverse machine decisions — and regulatory bodies are responding with a complex patchwork of emerging statutes and mandates that CIOs will need to navigate to ensure their AI strategies are compliant wherever their organizations do business.

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AI for B2B Marketing & Sales: Boost Productivity & Get Better Results

Weidert Group

AI’s rise is transforming the B2B marketing landscape at a nearly unbelievable pace. As powerful language models like Open AI’s ChatGPT, Anthropic’s Claude, and Google’s Gemini reshape how people find and consume information online, industrial marketers are grappling with a new imperative: adapt or fall behind. At the heart of this shifting path to purchase is the evolution of search.

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Empower Your SERP Landscape with Latest SERP Features – (Part 3)

GrowbyData

In part three of our exploration into Google SERP features, we continue to unravel the ever-evolving landscape of search engine marketing (SEM) and its impact on digital strategies. As Google’s algorithm continues to refine itself towards delivering a more seamless user experience, businesses must stay abreast of the latest developments. Diving deeper into these features, we dissect their significance, benefits, and strategies for optimization.

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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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Why the Rise of LLMs and GenAI Requires a New Approach to Data Storage

Dataversity

The new wave of data-hungry machine learning (ML) and generative AI (GenAI)-driven operations and security solutions has increased the urgency for companies to adopt new approaches to data storage. These solutions need access to vast amounts of data for model training and observability. However, to be successful, ML pipelines must use data platforms that offer […] The post Why the Rise of LLMs and GenAI Requires a New Approach to Data Storage appeared first on DATAVERSITY.

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EU and US agree to chart common course on AI regulation

CIO

The European Union and the US have agreed to increase co-operation in the development of technologies based on artificial intelligence (AI), placing a particular emphasis on safety and governance. The announcement came at the end of a meeting of the EU-US Trade and Technology Council in Leuven, Belgium, on Friday, and followed this week’s broadly similar pact between the US and UK on AI safety.

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The 10 Best Competitor Analysis Tools for 2024

SpyFu

Understanding what your competitors are up to is critical for making smart strategic decisions. But manually tracking their every move is time-consuming and inefficient. The right software can make competitor analysis more informed, accurate, and efficient. In this post, we'll cover the 10 best tools to help you gain valuable insights and find your competitive edge as you navigate 2024.

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AlphaSense Wins “Best AI Technology” at WatersTechnology Sell-Side Technology Awards 2024

Alpha Sense BI

AlphaSense is proud to announce that we have been named “ Best Artificial Intelligence Technology (Content and Research) ” by WatersTechnology in the 2024 Sell-Side Technology Awards. This recognition of our leading AI-driven search and summarization capabilities, built on our extensive universe of public and private content, reflects our work for more than a decade to develop AI that is purpose-built for business search using the latest in machine learning and NLP technology.

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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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Demystifying Data Analytics Models

Dataversity

In today’s global landscape, organizations worldwide are increasingly turning to data analytics to enhance their business performance. Research conducted by McKinsey Consulting revealed that data-driven companies not only experience above-market growth but also witness EBITDA (Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, and Amortization) increases of up to 25% [1].

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Cisco-led consortium to spread AI expertise in the workforce

CIO

Cisco and eight other companies today announced they would form the AI-Enabled ICT Workforce Consortium, as a venue to share generative AI knowledge and expertise in the workforce, and to help workers gain skills relevant to the newly AI-centric jobs of tomorrow. In an official statement, the companies said that the first order of business would be to create a broad-based report on the state of AI expertise among workers, which would also provide “actionable insights” for companies and their emp

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Automating Pharmacovigilance: Enhancing Drug Safety and Efficiency

WideNARROW

The Evolution of Pharmacovigilance Pharmacovigilance has long been regarded as the cornerstone of patient safety, continually evolving to meet the demands of a dynamic healthcare landscape. Traditionally, pharmacovigilance involved manual processes, relying heavily on human intervention for data collection and analysis. However, as the volume and complexity of pharmacological data have increased, so too has the need for more efficient and accurate methods of monitoring drug safety.

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How to Master a Market Landscape Analysis in Three Steps

Alpha Sense BI

Few things can be more daunting—or exciting—than a blank research slate. Whether you’re entering a new market, investigating nascent growth opportunities, or crafting a strategic recommendation, the first step to transforming that blank slate into a successful outcome is undoubtedly understanding the market landscape. But with the sheer amount of information available, conducting market landscape analysis isn’t always straightforward—even the term itself is vague at best.

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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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DevOps and Data: Lessons Teams Can Learn About Managing Databases

Dataversity

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the outlook for jobs around managing data architecture and databases looks pretty good: The number of professionals with roles around managing data is due to grow by eight percent from 2022 to 2032. However, while the number of roles that work around data is going up, the position of database […] The post DevOps and Data: Lessons Teams Can Learn About Managing Databases appeared first on DATAVERSITY.

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LA Public Defender CIO digitizes to divert people to programs, not prison

CIO

Mohammed Al Rawi was appointed as the first CIO of Los Angeles County Public Defender’s (LACPD) office roughly five years ago, signaling the beginning of an era where technology and justice intersect to help the most vulnerable in the court system. He arrived at a crucial time when the office, laden with paper records and outdated legacy systems, desperately needed a digital overhaul.

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Navigating Insurance Intelligence Trends: The Future Outlook

WideNARROW

The insurance sector, known for its adherence to tradition and reliance on established practices, finds itself on the brink of a monumental transformation. As digital channels continue to reshape the insurance landscape, understanding the pivotal role of artificial intelligence (AI) is paramount. AI presents unprecedented opportunities, ranging from elevating customer satisfaction to streamlining processes and refining risk assessments.

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Make Data Driven Decisions Faster with Owler API

Owler

Say goodbye to the frustrations of inadequate data. Owler API is here to revolutionize how your Large Language Models (LLMs) interact with the world of business and consumers using real-time business news and insights.

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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.