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AI poised to replace entry-level positions at large financial institutions

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Global banks and investment firms are currently mulling plans to replace entry-level financial analyst positions with artificial intelligence (AI), with as many as two-thirds of these positions potentially on the chopping block. This anticipated move could completely transform how these companies hire new employees and how they manage and deliver the technology employees use.

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7 Actionable Expert Tips on Brand Reputation Monitoring

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Monitoring the chatter online is challenging because many things are out of your control. Buyers’ preferences and behaviors are constantly flip-flopping. They aren’t afraid of talking about you online using feedback, unfiltered criticism, or praise. That’s why brand reputation monitoring has become more significant for companies than ever before. Online businesses need to keep track of different channels to protect their reputation.

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10 Best Practices For Business Intelligence Dashboards

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Companies around the world increasingly use business intelligence (BI) dashboards. If you use one or intend to, knowing some business intelligence best practices can help you avoid pitfalls. Here are 10 best practices for usiness intelligence dashboards from which you can choose information to display.

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Best Practices For Power BI On Databricks Webinar

Chris Webb BI

I recently took part in a webinar with Denny Lee, Liping Huang and Marius Panga from Databricks on the subject of best practices for using Power BI on Databricks. You can view the recording on LinkedIn here: [link] …or on YouTube here: My section at the beginning covering Power BI best practices for Import and DirectQuery doesn’t contain any new information – if you’ve been following the DirectQuery posts on this blog or read the DirectQuery guidance docs here and here th

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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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Building Trust in the Digital Age: The Role of Data Verification

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Data has famously been referred to as the “new oil,” powering the fifth industrial revolution. As our reliance on data-intensive sectors like finance, healthcare, and the Internet of Things (IoT) grows, the question of trust becomes paramount. Trust is a multifaceted issue when dealing with data and events, and one core component is data verification. […] The post Building Trust in the Digital Age: The Role of Data Verification appeared first on DATAVERSITY.

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SplashBI is recognized as a Leader in Everest Group’s 2024 People Analytics Platform PEAK Matrix® Assessment

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SplashBI is recognized as a Leader in Everest Group’s 2024 People Analytics Platform PEAK Matrix® Assessment [Duluth, Georgia, 11th April] – SplashBI has been recognized as one of the Leaders in Everest Group’s 2024 People Analytics Platform PEAK Matrix® Assessment. This acknowledgement reflects the company’s robust performance and capabilities in people analytics.

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The Role of Visual Hierarchy in Effective Web Design

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Visual hierarchy plays a big role in the design and user experience of your website. The success of a website depends on its ability to guide users effortlessly from point A to point B. That’s where visual hierarchy comes in. It’s about using size, color, and layout to direct attention and make browsing intuitive. When you look at a website, your brain quickly figures out what’s important.

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The AI Playbook: Providing Important Reminders to Data Professionals

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Eric Siegel’s “The AI Playbook” serves as a crucial guide, offering important insights for data professionals and their internal customers on effectively leveraging AI within business operations.

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Moving from Power BI to Microsoft Fabric

Paul Turnley

Fabric is here but what does that mean if you are using Power BI? What do you need to know and what, if anything will you need to change if you are a Power BI report designer, developer or BI solution architect? What parts of Fabric should you use now and how do you plan for the near-term future? As I write this in March of 2024, I'm at the Microsoft MVP Summit at the Microsoft campus in Redmond, Washington this week learning about what the product teams will be working on over the next year or

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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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Expert Insights: Emerging Enterprise Software GenAI Trends

Alpha Sense BI

The past year saw the rise of generative artificial intelligence (genAI) as countless tech companies such as Open.AI (i.e. ChatGPT), Google (i.e.Vertex AI), and Microsoft (i.e. Copilot) launched breakthrough solutions. Heading into 2024, there are no signs of the momentum slowing, reinforcing the reality that AI adoption is essential to thrive in today’s market landscape.

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8 strategies for accelerating IT modernization

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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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French regulator fines Google $271M over generative AI copyright issue

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France’s competition authority fined Google, its parent company Alphabet, and two subsidiaries a total of €250 million ($271 million) for breaching a previous agreement on using copyrighted content for training its Bard AI service, now known as Gemini. The Autorité de la concurrence said Wednesday that the search giant failed to comply with a June 2022 settlement over the use of news stories in its search results, News and Discover pages.

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CIOs rethink all-in cloud strategies

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After years of marching to the cloud migration drumbeat, CIOs are increasingly becoming circumspect about the cloud-first mantra, catching on to the need to turn some workloads away from the public cloud to platforms where they will run more productively, more efficiently, and cheaper. “‘Cloud exit’ became a big theme in 2023 and there’s good odds it’ll turn into a real trend for 2024.

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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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Think you can ignore quantum computing? Think again.

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“It’s been known since the 1990s that a large-scale quantum computer will be able to break many of the crypto systems we rely on for security,” says Dustin Moody, leader of Post Quantum Cryptography (PQC) at the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) in Maryland. In 1994, American mathematician Peter Shor developed quantum algorithms to factor integers and solve the discrete logarithm problem.

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Prioritizing AI? Don’t shortchange IT fundamentals

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Generative AI continues to dominate IT projects for many organizations, with two thirds of business leaders telling a Harris Poll they’ve already deployed generative AI tools internally, and IDC predicting spend on gen AI will more than double in 2024. But the usual laundry list of priorities for IT hasn’t gone away. Fundamentals like security, cost control, identity management, container sprawl, data management, and hardware refreshes remain key strategic areas for CIOs to deal with.

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13 IT resolutions for 2024

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CIOs are readying for another demanding year, anticipating that artificial intelligence, economic uncertainty, business demands, and expectations for ever-increasing levels of speed will all be in play for 2024. Yet, CIOs remain both undaunted by that list and expectant about what they can achieve. They’re articulating ambitions and formulating objectives, turning those would-be challenges into opportunities.

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CIOs not entirely sold on generative AI copilots

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A new breed of AI assistant has set its sights on the enterprise user in recent months, with Microsoft and other vendors promising huge productivity gains that offset the cost. But Microsoft still has work to do on its value proposition. Its Copilot for Microsoft 365, a high-profile offering among the growing list of AI agents, costs $30 per seat per month, with a 300-seat minimum.

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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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Re-imagining Business Workflows with AI-Powered Automation

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Artificial intelligence (AI) is delivering rapid change for Australian business by raising customers’ expectations, generating new competitive challenges, and creating opportunities for new products and services. This rapid change demands a rapid response, but the strength of that response depends greatly on two factors – the agility of systems and processes and the availability of skilled workers to run them.

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Decoding Salesforce’s plausible $11 billion bid to acquire Informatica

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Salesforce’s reported bid to acquire enterprise data management vendor Informatica could mean consolidation for the integration platform-as-a-service (iPaaS) market and a new revenue stream for Salesforce, according to analysts. “With this deal, Salesforce would be the dominant data integration company, making it the starting point for enterprises trying to bring disparate data sources together,” said Hyoun Park, chief analyst at Amalgam Insights.

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IT leaders turn to HBCUs for future IT talent

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Officials at the North Carolina Department of Information Technology found themselves in a position familiar to most IT organizations: aware of the need to do more to attract IT workers given that they — like most employers — faced fierce competition for talent. They also believed they needed to take more responsibility for increasing the diversity of workers in their IT ranks.

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5 key metrics for IT success

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IT leaders are drowning in metrics, with many finding themselves up to their KPIs in a seemingly bottomless pool of measurement tools. The result is wasted time, confusion, and, in some cases, conflicting insights. There are several important metrics that can be used to achieve IT success, says Jonathan Nikols, senior vice president of global enterprise sales for the Americas at Verizon.

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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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AI adoption accelerates as enterprise PoCs show productivity gains

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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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10 highest-paying IT skills for 2024

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IT has always been known as a lucrative industry for job seekers, but in the past year, with increased layoffs, some of that confidence has wavered. According to a report from Indeed , a large part of this shift has come as organizations focus more on adopting AI in the workplace. As a result, AI skills are now among the most sought-after skills, even as companies retrench via layoffs.

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Inferencing holds the clues to AI puzzles

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Inferencing has emerged as among the most exciting aspects of generative AI large language models (LLMs). A quick explainer: In AI inferencing , organizations take a LLM that is pretrained to recognize relationships in large datasets and generate new content based on input, such as text or images. Crunching mathematical calculations, the model then makes predictions based on what it has learned during training.

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From fear to abundance: Rethinking job security in the age of generative AI

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By Chet Kapoor, Chairman & CEO at DataStax Along with the exciting possibilities of generative AI (genAI), there have been concerns around job (in)security and displacement. Leaders are feeling the pressure to implement genAI quickly and automate as much as possible. Some will see this as an opportunity to “get lean” and reduce headcount. Others will keep the people they have and find new ways to become super efficient.

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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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Oracle plans to expand its cloud region across the Middle East

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Oracle’s annual flagship event, CloudWorld Tour returned to the UAE for the second consecutive year to share the company’s latest AI innovations to power UAE’s Digital Economy and its plans across the region. The company that just turned 35 years old in the UAE will continue to invest in local infrastructure to bring cloud capabilities that will help the UAE Government entities and private sector.

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CIOs take aim at SaaS sprawl

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Years into strategies centered on adopting cloud point solutions, CIOs increasingly find themselves facing a bill past due: rationalizing, managing, and integrating an ever-expanding lineup of SaaS offerings — many of which they themselves didn’t bring into the organization’s cloud estate. Salesforce, Workday, Atlassian, Oracle, Microsoft, GitHub, and ServiceNow are but a few of the many vendors whose cloud applications make up the new tech backbone for most enterprises today, in conjunction wit

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4 tips for championing contact center innovation from an award-winning customer experience leader

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Innovation is essential, especially in the contact center as the tip of the spear in customer experience, but how do you activate your modernization plan? I had the opportunity to speak with Mary Daniel, VP of Customer Solutions Center for Aflac, a long-time Avaya customer, at the Gartner Symposium last fall. Mary is a veteran when it comes to customer experience and was most recently named by Constellation Research to the AX100 list , an elite group of executives who are breaking barriers and