October, 2019

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How Data-Driven Marketing Helps Improve Conversion Rates

Smart Data Collective

According to a recent Adobe report , marketers have identified data-driven marketing as the most important business opportunity for 2019. That clearly indicates the importance that marketers give to data and why you should too. After all, data-driven marketing can help you achieve numerous benefits for your business, ultimately leading to an increase in conversions.

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Text Analytics – Understanding the Voice of Consumers

BizAcuity

Over the decade’s Hospitality Industry wings expand to the new horizon due to the widespread usage of mobiles which allows customers to plan the vacation & visualize the ambiance at their fingertips. Social Media, Blogging & Reviews are the new age connectors among the Millennials, where they post their experiences. Text analytics helps to draw the insights from the unstructured data. .

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What did we learn at the SAP UK “The Journey To The Top” Event?

Timo Elliott

I recently had the honor of delivering the keynote at the “The Journey to the Top” Event at SAP UK headquarters, and you can see my slides and a video in my previous post How Data is Powering The Future of Business: Trends and Opportunities. Here’s what I took away from the event: The world is changing—so we should probably innovate!

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IDC Study: How Blended Learning Impacts Training Success | Simplilearn

Simplilearn

International Data Corporation (IDC) has released a study covering nearly 1000 learning programs from 250 companies to assess what training methods were most popular and which worked best at upskilling employees cost effectively. The IDC InfoBrief, titled How Blended Learning Impacts Training Success (October 2019), examined various combinati. Read More.

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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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KPI Analytics Can Help You Achieve Results!

ElegantJ BI

Multidimensional KPI Analytics Are Beneficial for Every User and Business! Every business manager and most every team member in every organization today understands the need for objective metrics and measurements and knows that senior management and shareholders will not accept guesswork or a lack of clarity on where and how resources and investments are helping or hurting the bottom line.

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Artificial Intelligence and Big Data in Higher Education: Promising or Perilous?

Smart Data Collective

What exactly is artificial intelligence (AI) and what business does it have in higher education? Simply put, AI is an attempt to emulate human knowledge by programming extensive rules into computers. Through machine learning and expert systems, machines can produce patterns within mass flows of data and pinpoint correlations that couldn’t possibly be immediately intuitive to humans.

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Migration Projects-How to Choose Between Onsite & Offshore

BizAcuity

With the IT shift to cloud and business shift to cloud-based data platforms, there is a growing increase in migration projects, which aim at migrating applications and data from a corporate data centre to a cloud platform. The migration may be mandatory because of a merger or acquisition, in which data from another organization has to be migrated to a new or existing environment, or because a business segment has been sold, which requires migration to storage elsewhere.

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Top 10 Management Reporting Best Practices To Create Effective Reports

Data Pine

Management reporting is a source of business intelligence that helps business leaders make more accurate, data-driven decisions. But, these reports are only as useful as the work that goes into preparing and presenting them. In this blog post, we’re going to give a bit of background and context about management reports, and then we’re going to outline 10 essential best practices you can use to make sure your reports are effective.

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The importance of knowing user intent when conducting behavior analysis

Userzoom

When trying to understand customer behavior on your website, a true intent study can help you uncover your visitors’ intentions. This should help answer questions such as, “Why are they coming to the site?” and “What are they trying to do?” Web analytics solutions, such as Google Analytics, will provide statistics on web traffic including number of visitors, page views, bounce rates, where visitors are going etc, but does not answer the why question i.e., the purpos

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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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KPI Analytics Can Help You Achieve Results!

ElegantJ BI

Multidimensional KPI Analytics Are Beneficial for Every User and Business! Every business manager and most every team member in every organization today understands the need for objective metrics and measurements and knows that senior management and shareholders will not accept guesswork or a lack of clarity on where and how resources and investments are helping or hurting the bottom line.

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5 Things You Need to Know Before Attending Your Next Conference | Analyst Catalyst Blog

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Big Data In Hockey Takes The Sport By Storm

Smart Data Collective

While sports analytics is hardly a new idea, how it is being used in hockey has changed dramatically. Coaches no longer have to wait for newspapers to print out statistics. Fans are not left to wonder how their favorite players are truly excelling. What has brought about this change? Big data. Big data has taken all forms of sports analytics by storm, but we are only now really beginning to see what it can do for hockey.

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Challenges in Migrating On-Premise to Cloud Microsoft 365

BizAcuity

Some of the key reasons for businesses to move to cloud are mobility, agility, progressive technology, and a need to stay abreast with the industry trends today. Businesses need powerful solutions that allow them to be more competitive, and there are several options cloud available to them today. Among the alternatives provided by the big three providers including Amazon, Microsoft, and Google, several businesses choose to use Microsoft’s Office 365 offering, since it provides effective function

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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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Make Your Data Relatable

Juice Analytics

I’m a big admirer of Nancy Duarte and her new book DataStory. One thing that Nancy knows is that data communication isn’t just about data visualization — any more than a movie is just about moving images. Audiences are moved by a movie because of so much more: storyline, characters, conflict, context, mood, specificity, meaning, and relatability. She makes this point in a recent HBR article The more data we collect, the more mind-boggling these figures become.

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Product Roadmap Prioritisation

Roman Pichler

Before You Start Prioritising …. Before you order the roadmap items, double-check that you have a validated product strategy in place. You should be able to confidently say why users would want to use your product and why it is worthwhile for your company to invest in it. In other words, you should have valid answers to the following questions: Which user problem will the product solve, or which benefit will it provide?

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KPI Analytics Can Help You Achieve Results!

ElegantJ BI

Multidimensional KPI Analytics Are Beneficial for Every User and Business! Every business manager and most every team member in every organization today understands the need for objective metrics and measurements and knows that senior management and shareholders will not accept guesswork or a lack of clarity on where and how resources and investments are helping or hurting the bottom line.

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Building Business Capability Conference Countdown | Analyst Catalyst Blog

Analyst Catalyst Blog

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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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Leveraging Big Data With State-Of-The-Art Business Dashboards

Smart Data Collective

There are a lot of ways that organizations can leverage big data. Most of them don’t have difficulty collecting the data they need to make more informed decisions. However, they often struggle to conceptualize the data and present it in a format that supports their conclusions. This is one of the areas where a business dashboard can be useful. Big data has made business dashboards possible.

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Migration Projects-How to Choose Between Onsite & Offshore

BizAcuity

With the IT shift to cloud and business shift to cloud-based data platforms, there is a growing increase in migration projects, which aim at migrating applications and data from a corporate data centre to a cloud platform. The migration may be mandatory because of a merger or acquisition, in which data from another organization has to be migrated to a new or existing environment, or because a business segment has been sold, which requires migration to storage elsewhere.

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How to test your website’s iconography

Userzoom

In which our very own UX Researcher, Tom Hayes, investigates the world of online iconography and how you can test whether users understand all your various navigation signs and symbols. What does this icon mean? Now I would be very surprised if anyone isn’t thinking ‘search’ right now. This icon, or variations of it, tend to be used by companies all over the world and users recognise it.

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How to Plan a Successful BI Project (and Manage it)

Sisense

Blog. A Three-Step Guide for BI Professionals. Launching a new business intelligence initiative or project can be tricky: while we’re staunch believers in agile BI and quick wins, it’s important for both the BI person and the business executives to first align their needs and expectations, and to understand what the organization hopes to achieve. The good news is, an efficient business analyst can get it done in a day or two.

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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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KPI Dashboards Should Not be Static, But Rather Dynamic!

ElegantJ BI

KPI Software for an Ever-Changing Business Market! KPI analytics is not just the process of choosing static measurements and placing them on a chart or graph, then reviewing them once every few months to see where your business falls in terms of its projected results and success. A comprehensive, flexible, dynamic KPI Dashboard provides a snapshot of where you are at any given moment and shows you what is working, what needs to change and what devilish details you need to address to improve resu

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Cybersecurity is a Critical Business Decision | Analyst Catalyst Blog

Analyst Catalyst Blog

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Data-Driven Digital Marketing Carves Competitive Edge For SMEs

Smart Data Collective

Big data is playing a vital role in the evolution of small business. A compilation of research from the G2 Learning Hub Shows the number of businesses relying on big data is rising. They cited one study showing that 40% of businesses need to use unstructured data on a nearly daily basis. One of the ways that businesses can gain an edge is with digital marketing strategies that hinge on big data.

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Challenges in Migrating On-Premise to Cloud Microsoft 365

BizAcuity

Some of the key reasons for businesses to move to cloud are mobility, agility, progressive technology, and a need to stay abreast with the industry trends today. Businesses need powerful solutions that allow them to be more competitive, and there are several options cloud available to them today. Among the alternatives provided by the big three providers including Amazon, Microsoft, and Google, several businesses choose to use Microsoft’s Office 365 offering, since it provides effective function

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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.