September, 2021

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Webinar on Adapting Your Data Science & Data Analyst Career | Simplilearn webinar starts 16-09-2021 15:30

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The explosion of data means that data scientists and analysts need to understand how to manage big data and how to use automation tools to help deal with the data overload. What do you need to do to prepare your career for this emerging reality?Join Simplilearn on Thursday, September 16 at 9 PM IST (8:30 AM PDT / 11:30 AM EDT), when Ronald van Loon.

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5 Data Points that Your 2022 Digital Marketing Strategy Must Include

Smart Data Collective

You must pay attention the data points that matter! Long gone are the days when digital marketing was based on gut feel and what looked good. The industry knows data is critical to a successful strategy. The hard thing is knowing which data points to pay attention to – separating the signal from the noise. With so much of marketing being quantifiable nowadays, it can be easy to get lost analyzing the wrong data and wasting time which could be better spent elsewhere.

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Sixteen Business Analysis Principles

BA Times

A principle can be defined as an underlying fundamental law or concept. Therefore, Business Analysis principles are the basic rules that should be followed to manage changes successfully. The Business Analysis Book of Knowledge (BABOK) does not currently contain an official list of principles for successful change initiatives. However, IIBA’s Agile Analysis Guide provides 7 […].

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Quick Tips: Adding Leading Zero to Integer Values (Padding) with DAX and Power Query

BI Insight

There are some cases that we want to add a leading zero to a digit, such as showing 01 instead of 1, 02 instead of 2 and so on. We have two options to do this in Power BI, doing it in Power Query or doing it with DAX. Adding a Leading Zero in Power … Continue reading Quick Tips: Adding Leading Zero to Integer Values (Padding) with DAX and Power Query.

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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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DataOps Highlights the Need for Automated ETL Testing (Part 2)

Dataversity

Click to learn more about author Wayne Yaddow. DataOps, which focuses on automated tools throughout the ETL development cycle, responds to a huge challenge for data integration and ETL projects in general. ETL projects are increasingly based on agile processes and automated testing. ETL (i.e., extract, transform, load) projects are often devoid of automated testing.

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Webinar Program Preview: Post Graduate Program in Digital Marketing | Simplilearn webinar starts 14-09-2021 15:30

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Digital marketing has transformed business in the last two decades, and the digital economy now relies on it. Social media, email, search engines, and web browsing are now marketing and sales channels that marketers must master. Join us on Tuesday, September 14 2021, at 9 PM IST (8:30 AM PDT/11:30 AM EDT) for a live preview of our Post Graduate P. Read More.

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How AI and IoT Solutions Can Improve Your Business

Smart Data Collective

In today’s modern era, AI and IoT are technologies poised to impact every part of the industry and society radically. Because most businesses devote their primary efforts to developing their brand, software applications, or network, new technologies are apt to transform how they operate. In addition, as companies attempt to draw better significance from the huge datasets gathered by linked devices, the potential of AI is accelerating the wider implementation of IoT.

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How Business Analysts Boost Productivity Within Operations Teams

BA Times

Here’s an undeniable truth: Highly productive companies generate more revenue. However, establishing optimum productivity isn’t always as easy to pull off. This is where Business Analysts (BAs) come in handy. Business analysts can increase your operations team’s productivity by helping them meet the set goals, boost their performance, and drill down on key areas for […].

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Power BI 101, What is Power BI

BI Insight

Many people talk about Power BI, its benefits and common challenges, and many more want to learn Power BI, which is excellent indeed. But there are many misconceptions and misunderstandings amongst the people who think they know Power BI. In my opinion, it is a significant risk in using tools without knowing them, and using … Continue reading Power BI 101, What is Power BI.

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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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The State of NLP: 5 Trends Shaping the Industry

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Click to learn more about author Ben Lorica. Natural Language Processing (NLP) has been on the rise for several years, and for good reason. With the ability to identify new variants of COVID-19, improve customer service, and significantly refine search capabilities, use cases are expanding as the technology proliferates. While some verticals have adopted NLP faster than […].

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Skills Every Business Analysis Team Manager Needs

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Top 10 Online Marketing Trends That Will Dominate 2017 | Simplilearn

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Through the years, the popularity of digital marketing has grown. And businesses of all sizes have built their online presence to promote their services and products. With 150,000 new jobs by 2020, the digital marketing industry is booming, thus making it important for professionals or aspiring professionals in this industry to keep up with the up. Read More.

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How Big Data and AI are Revolutionizing Payments

Smart Data Collective

Data has become an essential asset for companies everywhere. The financial sector has been one of the most affected industries. By interpreting and analyzing the data, organizations can understand and predict trends, improve security and make data-driven decisions. Big data and the artificial intelligence technologies used to leverage it can go beyond market predictions, and you can use data to improve working processes and optimize your return on investment (ROI).

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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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The importance of understanding value

BA Times

Every company has many competing ideas on projects which need to be fulfilled in order to run successfully. Departments will usually get a budget and at times try to deliver as many items as possible, in order to say they have been completed. But are the correct items/functions/projects being delivered to really drive value to […]. The post The importance of understanding value appeared first on Business Analyst Articles, Webinars, Templates, Jobs.

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Can Business Users Really Use BI Tools?

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Don’t Leave Your Business Users Out in the Cold. Give Them BI Tools! Don’t underestimate your business users! They have market, domain and professional expertise that add value to the organization and, with the right BI tools and features, business users can gather, analyze and make decisions using data from all across the enterprise. You don’t have to leave the business intelligence and analytics efforts to IT or business analysts or data scientists.

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Emerging Cybersecurity Trends to Monitor in 2021

Dataversity

Click to learn more about author Gary McCarthy. Cybersecurity has never been as important as it is today. With more people than ever before accessing the internet for work or pleasure, the number of targets for cybercriminals continues to increase daily, as does the number of cyberattacks. In addition, factors such as the ongoing COVID-19 […].

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Power BI 101, What is Power BI

BI Insight

Many people talk about Power BI, its benefits and common challenges, and many more want to learn Power BI, which is excellent indeed. But there are many misconceptions and misunderstandings amongst the people who think they know Power BI. In my opinion, it is a significant risk in using tools without knowing them, and using … Continue reading Power BI 101, What is Power BI.

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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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Top 5 Benefits of Microsoft Certification in Your Career | Simplilearn

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Microsoft Office including MS Excel, MS Word, MS PowerPoint and MS Project etc. are used by individuals both in their personal and professional sphere. In fact, knowledge of Microsoft usage is one of the basic requirements for most of the job profiles. Be it accounting, business analysis, marketing or coding, you need to have adequate awareness of. Read More.

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How AI-Driven Data Analytics Tools Benefit Businesses and Organizations

Smart Data Collective

More and more businesses and organizations treat data as an essential asset. The importance of managing and leveraging data cannot be overestimated. The process of interpreting and analyzing data and putting it into context helps businesses and organizations make informed decisions, predict trends, anticipate expectations, improve security, optimize internal operations, and stay ahead of competitors.

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Do We Need A Skills Matrix?

BA Times

The answer to this question is almost always no. Here’s why… Drivers The stated objectives for creating a person-level skills matrix are usually something like: “We want to match staff to appropriate work by understanding their skills.” “We need to identify skills gaps and shortages across the team/organisation and prioritise areas for individual and general […].

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Factors and Considerations Involved in Choosing a Data Management Solution!

ElegantJ BI

When a business enters the domain of data management, it is easy to get lost in a flurry of promises, brochures, demos and the promise of the future. In the first article in our two-part series, entitled, ‘ Data Warehouse, Data Lake, Data Mart, Data Hub: A Definition of Terms ’, we defined the terms and differences in the market so that businesses can better understand the possibilities of Data Warehouses, Data Marts, Data Lakes and Data Hubs.

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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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Is Unstructured Data the Future of Data Management?

Dataversity

Click to learn more about author Nahla Davies. In an increasingly tech-reliant world, data informs and powers much of our day-to-day lives. Data can be used to enhance AI capabilities, create personalized experiences, or be applied in medical research to help save lives. However, the biggest question remains: What is the best method to store, […].

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5 Awesome Study Tips for CPOA

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Top 17 Career Guidance Tips for Millennials | Simplilearn

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Are you one of the many Millennials who was born between 1982 and 2000? If so, you’ve caused much consternation among academics and employers who struggle to figure out what you want in a career. However, the chances are that you know what you want! Whether your emphasis is on flex-time and doing good or you want a steady paycheck with plenty of. Read More.

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Smart SMBs Are Taking Advantage of Major Advances in Data Security

Smart Data Collective

A surprisingly large number of SMBs think they’re too small to be targeted by hackers. The truth is, cybercriminals sniff out opportunities regardless of the company size and the complacency of the SMBs is what draws them. 2020 was an especially eventful year for small businesses and it has exposed fundamental flaws in the way they handle data.

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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.