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MAY 23, 2023

By Hock Tan, Broadcom President & CEO Innovation comes in many forms. In Broadcom’s case, it has been through a combination of organic growth and growth through acquisition, which has created Broadcom today – a company built from a heritage of American technology pioneers such as AT&T Bell Labs and Hewlett Packard, among others. Broadcom has grown by building on the innovations of businesses with critical products, a strong track record, and significant long-term growth potential.

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Crayon

MAY 9, 2023

This is a Crayon guest post from one of our partners, PSP Enterprises. Visit the Crayon Partner Directory to learn more!

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Chris Webb BI

MAY 7, 2023

Here’s a recording of a session I did for the Manchester (UK) Power BI user group recently on best practices for DirectQuery mode in Power BI: I’ve done it for a few other groups over the last six months but this is the latest and best version, I think. I’ve worked with several customers using DirectQuery mode since I joined the CAT team and learned a lot along the way.

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Smart Data Collective

MAY 7, 2023

The advent of the digital age introduced a novel conundrum for businesses, and it is adhering to stringent government regulations related to record-keeping. This challenge becomes particularly pronounced for companies that manage extensive reservoirs of data. However, cloud computing has revolutionized how enterprises manage their records and make it easier for businesses to comply.

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According to 3BL and TriplePundit’s Consumer Insights & Sustainability Benchmark two-thirds of U.S. adults actively seek and follow sustainability issues. This leaves room for businesses to fill in the gaps currently seen between consumer expectations and corporate ESG communication. This research reveals what issues consumers care about and how businesses can tailor their communications to different segments of consumers.

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MAY 10, 2023

A website host plays a critical role in improving your site’s performance, and helps you connect with a relevant audience. It’s one of the fundamental elements of running a successful online business. So, it’s essential that you carefully choose one that best fits your needs and requirements. However, selecting the best-suited website hosting is easier said than done.

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CIO

MAY 23, 2023

Efficiency, always a top concern of IT leaders, is the subject of heightened focus in 2023, thanks to ongoing inflation and the threat of recession. Expenditures for cloud services in particular are coming under close scrutiny, at a time when cloud spending is nearly half of many IT budgets. “As more and more workloads migrate to the cloud, managing cloud expenses has become an important priority,” says Dilip Venkatachari, senior executive vice president and global chief information and technolo

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Crayon

MAY 30, 2023

There’s a trope in teen movies where the protagonist’s mom prepares an extraordinary breakfast — eggs, bacon, bagels, fresh fruit, coffee, orange juice — only for said protagonist (annoying, self-absorbed) to absent-mindedly walk out the door with a single piece of bacon.

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Chris Webb BI

MAY 14, 2023

One of the most confusing things about troubleshooting Power BI refresh problems is the way Power BI will sometimes try running a refresh again after it has failed. It means that refreshes seem to take a lot longer than you would expect and also that more queries are run against your data source than you would expect. I don’t have all the answers but I thought it would be useful to highlight a few scenarios where it does happen.

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Smart Data Collective

MAY 4, 2023

If you’re like most small business owners, cybersecurity is probably the last worry on your mind. Between growing a business and dealing with day-to-day tasks, it’s easy to let your cyber presence fade into the background of your thoughts. Unfortunately, as the world becomes more and more digital, cybersecurity risks are growing at a rapid pace. As a small business owner, this means that you and your business could be at risk of being attacked this very second.

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When economic headwinds pick up, sales leaders are the first to sound the alarm — and chart a new course. Longer sales cycles, larger buying committees, increased price pressure, and smaller teams can quickly combine to reduce your margin for error and increase the urgency to find a solution. To thrive in a challenging environment, sales teams need a rock-solid grasp of the fundamentals and the biggest force-multipliers they can get their hands on.

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MAY 23, 2023

Did you know that from 2021, the global content marketing industry is worth over $400 billion? With the ever-increasing importance of digital marketing, content marketing has become an essential part of any successful marketing strategy. However, with so many businesses jumping on the content marketing train, it’s more important than ever to get ahead of the competition and keep up with the latest trends.

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FedSavvy

MAY 23, 2023

“We have a deep bench” and “We have great corporate reachback” are some of my favorite lies. While this is not always flawed, it can most definitely boomerang around to kill your bid. Let’s take a journey down the yellow brick reachback road to see examples of the good and the bad. In this blog we will feature a good use of reachback and a case in which reachback did not work out as intended.

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CIO

MAY 11, 2023

Digital transformation is at the forefront of every modern business strategy, whether it’s adopting the cloud, improving and updating IT infrastructure, or developing data and analytics strategy to drive decision-making. Companies are interested in hiring seasoned pros who have a strong working knowledge of the skills they need to accomplish technology and business goals.

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Crayon

MAY 22, 2023

Few activities are more tedious than sifting through Google Alerts in search of important competitive insights. Not only is it tedious, it’s detrimental to your CI program — because the time you spend sifting through Google Alerts is time you don’t spend on high-impact activities, like training your sales team on the latest versions of your battlecards.

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Chris Webb BI

MAY 2, 2023

Another new metric has appeared in Profiler/Log Analytics recently, added to the end of the query text shown in the TextData column for the Query End event. It’s called WaitTime: What does WaitTime represent? Here’s the technical explanation: it’s the wait time on the query thread pool in the Analysis Services engine before the query starts to run.

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Smart Data Collective

MAY 17, 2023

AI has been the latest controversy, as it may seem to eliminate the need for human working positions in most professions. Artists, especially, were vocal about their concerns about the technology, considering the system’s merging way of creating art. ChatGPT doesn’t seem to think about the importance of artists after it tells a writer they don’t exist but after citing their previous work.

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MAY 12, 2023

If there’s one thing that sets Twitter apart from other social media platforms, it’s its dynamic nature, and the sheer speed at which it changes, based on the ever-changing traction around different topics and conversations. Whether it’s breaking news with global implications that’s on everyone’s mind, or personally tailored to the browsing habits of your individual account, trending topics on Twitter have a profound effect on the way people interact with content and brands on the platform.

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Zoominfo

MAY 23, 2023

It’s enough to ruin any sales professional’s quarter: that prospect your team has spent months engaging — scheduling demos, addressing concerns, comparing features — suddenly decides they’re not ready to buy after all. You can’t stop every account from getting cold feet or misreading their company’s appetite for new solutions. But today’s best-performing go-to-market (GTM) teams are increasingly using intent data to focus their efforts on the accounts that are the most likely to close a deal.

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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

MAY 16, 2023

SAP wants to give new meaning to the resources in enterprise resource planning, going beyond the boundaries of the enterprise and accounting for its impact on the whole planet. The software provider plans to do that by enhancing existing tools for estimating greenhouse gas emissions due to an enterprise’s activities, and adding capabilities for exchanging that data with partners, bringing it all together in a “green ledger” that will record the climate cost of doing business alongside the financ

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Crayon

MAY 18, 2023

For the first installment of our new Win/Loss Wednesdays series , we had the pleasure of chatting with Jayde Phillips , who manages market and competitive intelligence at Egencia, an American Express Global Business Travel company.

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Chris Webb BI

MAY 28, 2023

After my post on tuning Excel cube functions last week there was some (justified) moaning on Twitter about their performance. This got me thinking about other things you could do with cube functions that might improve performance and I had a crazy idea… Late last year two new DAX functions were introduced which didn’t get much attention: ToCSV and ToJSON.

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Smart Data Collective

MAY 11, 2023

The recent slew of bank failures have created a lot of concerns about the state of the global economy. The good news is that big data technology is helping banks meet their bottom line. Therefore, it should be no surprise that the market for data analytics is growing at a rate of nearly 23% a year after being worth $744 billion in 2020. Big data can help companies in the financial sector in many ways.

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A growing body of evidence shows that environmental, social and governance (ESG) initiatives are important to business growth. And it all relies on a simple fact: ESG issues matter to consumers. Consumers see businesses as crucial change agents and are willing to take their business to the competition if their current brand comes up short on ESG. In pursuit of identifying where such trends are today, 3BL Media and TriplePundit partnered with the research technology firm Glow to survey 3,648 U.S.

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MAY 17, 2023

The affiliate marketing spend in the US was up to $8.2 billion in 2022 , a significant rise from $5.4 billion in 2017. With this trend in mind, it’s safe to say that affiliate marketing isn’t going anywhere. But becoming an affiliate marketer takes more than merely knowing what the term means. For one, you must choose the right platform for affiliate marketing.

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FedSavvy

MAY 17, 2023

ASRC Federal is a perennial top GOVCON competitor and we last examined ASRC Federal in July 2021 …so let’s give this high flying Alaskan Native Corporation another look. There is much to consider about ASRC Federal so we will only touch on a few aspects of their business in this blog. Buy, buy, buy! Figure 1 – Highlighted ASRC Federal’s M&A activity since 2013 ASRC Federal – and other ANCs – are not typically synonymous with growing via acquisition.

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CIO

MAY 9, 2023

There’s no denying the fact that cloud technology is headed in many different directions, all aimed at providing rapid, scalable access to computing resources and IT services. Yet as cloud technology evolves, many organizations are becoming more thoughtful and intentional in their transformation journey as they look to close the gap between simply running on the cloud and creating enterprise-wide value, observes Cenk Ozdemir, cloud and digital leader at business consulting firm PwC.

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Intelligence Node

MAY 30, 2023

Retail Sustainability has become an increasingly critical concern for businesses in the 21st century as consumers, especially the younger generations, are becoming more conscious of issues such as pollution and. The post Using Data to Transform Retail Sustainability appeared first on Blog.

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ABM gets better with age — but unfortunately, marketers don't have the luxury of pouring it into an oak barrel for a couple decades to let it mature. In a recent survey with Demand Gen Report, we found 59% of experienced practitioners (those with ABM programs more than a year old) indicated their ABM programs are meeting or greatly exceeding their expectations, while only 45% of novices (those with ABM programs less than one year old) could say the same.

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