January, 2021

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Four Ways Great BAs Can Start The New Year Right!

BA Squared

Review, Renew, and Reconnect in 2021! Don’t let the new year sneak up on you. Now is the perfect time to follow these four simple ways to start the new year off right, and take charge of what you are getting out of your career and life. Take some time to plan your year! I know this sounds funny, but just like product and project planning, we need to have a vision and intention for the year.

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Your Data Won’t Speak Unless You Ask It The Right Data Analysis Questions

Data Pine

In our cutthroat digital age, the importance of setting the right data analysis questions can define the overall success of a business. It is not just important to gather all the existing information, but to consider the preparation of data and utilize it in the proper way, has become an indispensable value in developing a successful business strategy.

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Understanding The Impacts of Social Media: Pros and Cons | Simplilearn

Simplilearn

Information and communication technology has changed rapidly over the past 20 years, with a key development being the emergence of social media. The pace of change is accelerating. For example, the development of mobile technology has played an essential role in shaping the impact of social media. Across the globe, mobile devices dominate in t. Read More.

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Big Data Plays Key Role in Helping Satellites Get Launched into Orbit

Smart Data Collective

Big data is changing the space race in ways that original founders at NASA and other global space exploration organizations never foresaw decades ago. Miriam Kramer, an author with Axios, talked about the growing number of space companies that are finding new ways to utilize big data. They hope new advances in data technology will help them connect with new markets.

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Reduce Bias in Hiring: Structured Interview Questions for Employers

Structured interview questions are a valuable tool for reducing bias in hiring. They help: Ensure all candidates are asked the same questions in the same way Level the playing field so all candidates have a fair chance of being successful Improve credibility, reliability, and validity Download the guide to get the most out of your interview questions!

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The Art and Science of FP&A Storytelling

Timo Elliott

I recently participated in a web seminar on the Art and Science of FP&A Storytelling, hosted by the founder and CEO of FP&A Research Larysa Melnychuk along with other guests Pasquale della Puca , part of the global finance team at Beckman Coulter and Angelica Ancira , Global Digital Planning Lead at PepsiCo. With advanced analytics, flexible dashboarding and effective data visualization, FP&A storytelling has become both an art and science.

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5 Kinds of Software to Streamline Online Business Processes

BA Times

Inefficient processes can cost your business 20% to 30% of revenue loss every year.Inefficient processes can cost your business 20% to 30% of revenue loss every year.

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How to Thrive as a Business Analyst in the New Normal

Analyst Catalyst Blog

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Leveraging Data Science for COVID-19 Vaccine Administration | Simplilearn

Simplilearn

Globally, over 30 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccination have been dispensed throughout 43 countries. In the U.S., over nine million people have had at least one COVID-19 vaccination as of January 12, 2021, with 541,000 people completely vaccinated. As the global COVID-19 rollout continues to unfold, the challenge of vaccine administration. Read More.

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Customer Data Analytics is Critical to the Future of Account-Based Marketing

Smart Data Collective

We have talked at length about the importance of data analytics in the field of marketing. Data analytics offers many useful insights for companies striving to boost their market share. One of the best applications of data analytics is through enhanced account-based marketing. There are a lot of ways to use big data to get a better understanding of a target customer group, which is a vital part of any marketing strategy.

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Business Valuation Software: Free Guide to Valutico Platform

Explore our free guide to Valutico, the platform that revolutionizes automated report generation, offers access to 1 million M&A transactions, enables quick benchmarking, and streamlines the entire valuation process. With Valutico, you gain access to: 30-Minute Valuations: Rapidly producing accurate results. 3TB of Financial Data: The expansive data you need at your fingertips.

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Giving New Life To Industrial Machinery With Connected Customer Experiences

Timo Elliott

The “Better Together” program is a series of conversations is where I give the microphone to SAP customers and partners for an unfiltered look at how they are innovating with SAP’s Business Technology Platform to unlock business value. The first episode focused on the Gates Corporation and how the company has been able to reinvent their products experience using the latest internet of things technology.

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Data Analytics Will Power a Transformation of Supply Chains in the Post-Pandemic Environment

Dataversity

Click to learn more about author Vikas Mathur. COVID-19 exerted a disruptive impact on virtually every aspect of business across every sector — and supply chains were no exception. In a recent report, Deloitte said the pandemic might be “the black swan event that finally forces many companies, and entire industries, to rethink and transform […].

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How to optimise resources in matrix organizations?

BA Times

Matrix organizations have prevailed for decades, predominantly in multi-project environments.

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Being curious about you

Growing Agile

2020 has been a tough year for many, myself included. This pandemic has shifted our lives completely. I haven’t seen my friends in a year. I haven’t met any of the people I’ve worked with in the past year. And the only people I’ve spent time with are those living in my house. For months we’ve been looking forward to a new year and now that it’s arrived, not much has changed, if anything we’re more isolated as we try to keep safe during the second wave.

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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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Top 9 New Technology Trends for 2021 | Simplilearn

Simplilearn

Technology today is evolving at such a rapid pace, enabling faster change and progress, causing an acceleration of the rate of change, until eventually it will become exponential. However, it is not only technology trends and top technologies that are evolving, a lot more has changed this year due to the outbreak of COVID-19 making IT professionals.

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How Machine Learning Enhances Momentum of Cryptocurrency Price Movements

Smart Data Collective

Cryptocurrencies have become very important in the modern economy. They have also created numerous opportunities for informed investors to create diversified portfolios and take advantage of a market for assets that provide an exceptional ROI. Machine learning technology has made cryptocurrency investing opportunities more lucrative than ever. The impact of machine learning on the market for bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies is multifaceted.

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Article: Building a SQL Database Audit System using Kafka, MongoDB and Maxwell's Daemon

InfoQ Articles

In this article, author discusses the importance of a database audit logging system outside of traditional built-in data replication, using technologies like Kafka, MongoDB, and Maxwell's Daemon. By Vishal Sinha.

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Why Now for AI in Manufacturing?

Dataversity

Click to learn more about author Venkat Eswara. Technology always evolves faster than our ability to adapt. AI is becoming mainstream in the consumer and enterprise sectors. So, it’s not a question of if but when AI will become the norm in the manufacturing sector. In fact, it already is. On the one hand, the COVID-19 pandemic has heightened […].

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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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5 Tips for Saying No to Stakeholders

Roman Pichler

Imagine that you are talking to John, a senior salesperson who’s been involved with the product for a while. John mentions the upcoming product release and says, “You really must add the enhanced reporting feature. I’ve spoken to several customers, and they have all confirmed that it is absolutely crucial.” You know, though, that it is impossible to add the feature to the development effort.

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Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast

Growing Agile

A few weeks ago I featured on the Scrum Master Toolbox podcast with Vasco Duarte and Yves Hanoulle. We talked about continuous improvement and the importance of learning to speak up freely as a team… Let me know what you think. The post Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast appeared first on Growing Agile.

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5 Emerging Machine Learning and AI Trends To Watch in 2021 | Simplilearn

Simplilearn

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) are buzzwords that nearly everyone has heard these days. But, even those who aren’t familiar with them encounter these new technologies almost every day. Research shows that 77% of the devices that we currently use have AI built into them. From a bevy of “smart” devices to Netflix recomme. Read More.

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Blockchain: The Fall of Traditional Centralized Systems in Business & Finance

Smart Data Collective

Blockchain is one of the most important technologies to shape the world. One of the biggest industries that has been affected has been finance. The market for blockchain technology in the financial sector is expected to reach over $3 billion by 2024. The question many experts are asking is: “what factors are driving the growth in blockchain in the financial industry?

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Data-Backed Secrets for Minimizing Discounts & Maximizing ROI Post-Holiday

Use data to turn one-off holiday shoppers into repeat buyers and effortlessly drive more sales throughout the year. Our guide will give you an in-depth understanding of what triggers your customers to buy and breaks down campaign examples from leading B2C brands.

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New Microsoft Azure Certifications Path in 2021 [Updated]

Whizlabs

It has been over 3 years when Microsoft announced and released a few major changes in the existing Azure certification path, in 2018 at Ignite Conference. This announcement was no less than the beginning of the modern era of technology. The changes in the certification tracks were made to make the Azure certifications more role-based. Along with the arrival of the new Azure certifications , the news contains the retirement of some of the existing Microsoft Azure exams at the end of 2018.

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Four Ways Embedded BI Brings Productivity into Focus

Dataversity

Click to learn more about author Daniel Jebaraj. The purpose of any enterprise software application is to help businesses be more productive. And given the ever-growing number of applications of every stripe across every industry, you want the applications that you develop and sell to maximize the productivity of your customers. That’s the way to […].

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Developer Platform news: January 2021

Tableau

Geraldine Zanolli. Developer Evangelist. Kristin Adderson. January 27, 2021 - 2:58am. January 27, 2021. Each month, our Developer Platform team pulls back the curtain on recent work to support our developer community during the monthly Tableau Developer Program Sprint Demos. As we start a new year, we’re excited to share important updates, including: Analytics extensions on Tableau Online, Tableau Server in a container, the new file format for Hyper API, and In-Product Extensions Gallery.

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Article: The Brain Is Neither a Neural Network nor a Computer: Book Review The Biological Mind

InfoQ Articles

Underlying much of artificial intelligence research is the idea that the essence of an individual resides in the brain. This is contrary to neuroscience which has discovered that a brain cannot work independently from the body and its environment. Understanding this enables us see what is reasonable to expect from artificial intelligence, as well as technology designed to improve human life.

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The Young BA

This article focuses on my experience starting as a customer service representative and working myself up to become a lead analyst in my organization. I did not start with many special skills or talents but I wanted to reflect on what did help me.