Analyst Catalyst Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2019

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Smart Data Collective

OCTOBER 2, 2019

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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BizAcuity

OCTOBER 21, 2019

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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Timo Elliott

OCTOBER 3, 2019

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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Simplilearn

OCTOBER 29, 2019

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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Analyst Catalyst Blog

OCTOBER 15, 2019

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Smart Data Collective

OCTOBER 1, 2019

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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BizAcuity

OCTOBER 7, 2019

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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Data Pine

OCTOBER 17, 2019

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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Juice Analytics

OCTOBER 15, 2019

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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ElegantJ BI

OCTOBER 21, 2019

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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Analyst Catalyst Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2019

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Smart Data Collective

OCTOBER 8, 2019

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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BizAcuity

OCTOBER 25, 2019

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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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 7, 2019

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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User Experience 88

Userzoom

OCTOBER 10, 2019

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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Visualization 86

ElegantJ BI

OCTOBER 21, 2019

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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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

Analyst Catalyst Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Cybersecurity 195

Cybersecurity Business Analysis Business Analysis 195

Smart Data Collective

OCTOBER 11, 2019

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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BizAcuity

OCTOBER 7, 2019

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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Phocas

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Phocas is pleased to announce the appointment of Blair Cassidy as the Chief Product Officer (CPO). Cassidy brings more than 19 years of digital product experience to Phocas, most recently serving as the CPO for SLI Systems. Cassidy will lead the company’s efforts in developing innovations that build upon Phocas’ data analytics solutions and its success helping customers better leverage their business data.

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Userzoom

OCTOBER 31, 2019

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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ElegantJ BI

OCTOBER 16, 2019

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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Monitoring 130

Analyst Catalyst Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2019

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Smart Data Collective

OCTOBER 3, 2019

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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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.