Analyst Catalyst Blog

JULY 7, 2020

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Timo Elliott

JULY 3, 2020

I’ve been interviewing customers recently on how digital technologies have helped their organizations be resilient in the current environment. Here’s a short recap of what I’ve so far found works best for non-professionals like myself who still want to be able to put together a polished, edited result. Arrange a Zoom call. There are alternatives, but Zoom seems to have the best quality, for now.

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Smart Data Collective

JULY 26, 2020

Employee engagement is one of the most important metrics for the success of an organization, but it’s an elusive figure. According to one recent Gallup poll , a meager 15 percent of employees define themselves as “engaged” with their work. But what does that really mean? And how can you measure or improve employee engagement in your organization? What Is Employee Engagement?

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Simplilearn

JULY 28, 2020

If you’re pursuing a career in project management, you’re making a smart move. Organizations have recognized project management as indispensable to business success, and have figured out skilled and credentialed project managers are among their most valuable resources. The Project Management Institute reports in a survey that in the U.S., over. Read More.

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BizAcuity

JULY 7, 2020

With the news of the development of promising vaccines making the rounds and the infection curve seemingly stabilizing, the world has progressed into ideating strategies and action plans to safely transition into a post COVID 19 working environment. It’s time casinos too did the same. After almost a two-month hiatus, governments around the world are easing restrictions to allow businesses to bloom back to life.

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Tim Mitchell

JULY 16, 2020

For the better part of 15 years, SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) has been the go-to enterprise extract-transform-load (ETL) tool for shops running on Microsoft SQL Server. More recently, Microsoft added Azure Data Factory (ADF) to its stable of enterprise ETL tools. In this post, I’ll be comparing SSIS and Azure Data Factory to share how they are alike and.

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Growing Agile

JULY 6, 2020

This is the second part of the blog series were we discuss the 12 Agile Principles. In this post we will focus on principles 4-6. 4. “Business people and developers must work together daily throughout the project. “ I recently attended a workshop with Woody Zuill around Mob Programming and it really opened my eyes up to just how powerful it can be for a whole team to be working on the same computer at the same time in the same place.

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Smart Data Collective

JULY 26, 2020

Data pipelines have been crucial for brands in a number of ways. In March, Hubspot talked about the shift towards incorporating big data into marketing pipelines in B2B campaigns. “A modern B2B sales pipeline is a treasure trove of data to model and improve, providing insights that are critical to performance,” writes Hubspot author Dan Tyre. However, it is important to use the right data pipelines to leverage these benefits.

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BI Insight

JULY 31, 2020

A while ago I wrote a blogpost on how to use Unicode characters in Power BI. In that blogpost I used a recursive Power Query function to convert Hex values to Dec values. A few weeks back one of my site visitors kindly shared his non-recursive version of Power Query function which beautifully does the … Continue reading Quick Tips: Converting Hexadecimal, Oct and Binary to Decimal in a Single Power Query Function.

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BizAcuity

JULY 16, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected every fragment of society, bringing the world to a halt. The streets are empty, offices are no longer bustling and commercial spaces have run out of life. To curb the spread of COVID-19, government authorities around the world have imposed strict social distancing protocols that have restricted the movement of people at public places. .

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Tim Mitchell

JULY 23, 2020

When moving data in an extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL) process, the most efficient design pattern is to touch only the data you must, copying just the data that was newly added or modified since the last load was run. This pattern of incremental loads usually presents the least amount of risk, takes less time to run, and preserves the.

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Analyst Catalyst Blog

JULY 21, 2020

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Growing Agile

JULY 13, 2020

This is the third part of the blog series were we discuss the 12 Agile Principles. In this post we will focus on principles 7-9. 7. “Working software is the primary measure of progress. “ Early in my agile career, when I was still a project manager with agile tendencies, I took over a project that was ‘60% done’ When I probed a little I found out that the 60% done meant that 60% of the budget had been spent, the project was far from done.

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Smart Data Collective

JULY 27, 2020

. It is the 21 st century, and technology has experienced radical changes making it more seamless to perform tasks. The massive advancement in technology is increasing the rate of real time monitoring, data collection, and data measurement. The changes in technology enable the massive integration of data into smart home technology and the existing environment site.

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BI Insight

JULY 31, 2020

A while ago I wrote a blogpost on how to use Unicode characters in Power BI. In that blogpost I used a recursive Power Query function to convert Hex values to Dec values. A few weeks back one of my site visitors kindly shared his non-recursive version of Power Query function which beautifully does the … Continue reading Quick Tips: Converting Hexadecimal, Oct and Binary to Decimal in a Single Power Query Function.

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BA Squared

JULY 28, 2020

I have been hearing from so many Business Analysts, Product Owners, and teams that writing good acceptance criteria is a big challenge! And, if this resonates with you; you’re not alone! Why is this such a common pain for teams today? I see a lot of mediocre to downright bad practices happening around acceptance criteria, and these poor practices are not helping teams with the outcomes and results they truly desire!

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Tim Mitchell

JULY 30, 2020

A few years back, I wrote a blog post about using an SSIS object variable as a data flow source. In that post, I described how you could load a set of query results into an object-typed variable in SQL Server Integration Services and then use that in-memory data as a source within a data flow. In the comments and. The post Reusing a Recordset in an SSIS Object Variable appeared first on Tim Mitchell.

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Analyst Catalyst Blog

JULY 31, 2020

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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

ElegantJ BI

JULY 21, 2020

BI Reporting and Tally Solutions Go Hand-in-Hand! The Tally Solutions offering is focused on accounting and finance related activities and tasks and it is very popular in India and in other countries. As Tally expands its reach, it has also expanded its features and functionality as a way to support existing users and to attract new users. One of the most important factors in the new Tally universe is its BI Reporting Tool.

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Smart Data Collective

JULY 31, 2020

AWS has become a surprisingly popular platform. It has over a million customers and generates over $104 billion a year. This can be a great skill to learn for anyone in IT that wants greater wages and job security. Before even considering an IT career , you must understand yourself. What are your ambitions for the new year? Are you just going to sit there and wait for things to happen when you can make a major impact on your career with the right training?

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Roman Pichler

JULY 7, 2020

What are Feature and Component Teams? A feature team is a development team that implements end-user functionality end-to-end. Contrast this with a component team. Such a team owns an architecture building block, for example, a layer, a subsystem, or a collection of components or services, as figure 1 illustrates. Figure 1: Feature vs. Component Team.

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Sisense

JULY 8, 2020

Blog. Analytics and data are changing every facet of our world. In The State of Analytics and BI , we expand on our original research, keeping you ahead of the curve on the world of analytics, data, and business intelligence. If you’re a larger company or an enterprise, odds are you want to increase analytics usage organization-wide. The COVID-19 pandemic has forced companies of all kinds to shift tactics and in some cases pivot their entire business models.

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Tim Mitchell

JULY 13, 2020

I’m happy to announce the publication of my latest book. The SSIS Catalog: Install, Manage, Secure, and Monitor your Enterprise ETL Infrastructure is now available on Amazon in both paperback and Kindle formats. In this book, I introduce the reader to the SSIS catalog and describe how it fits into an enterprise ETL architecture. This book is, by design, narrowly.

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Analyst Catalyst Blog

JULY 28, 2020

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ElegantJ BI

JULY 21, 2020

BI Reporting and Tally Solutions Go Hand-in-Hand! The Tally Solutions offering is focused on accounting and finance related activities and tasks and it is very popular in India and in other countries. As Tally expands its reach, it has also expanded its features and functionality as a way to support existing users and to attract new users. One of the most important factors in the new Tally universe is its BI Reporting Tool.

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Smart Data Collective

JULY 30, 2020

In December, Springer published an insightful article about the value of deep learning for VPNs. The article “Deep learning-based real-time VPN encrypted traffic identification methods” delves into the use of machine learning to improve encryption models. However, there are other ways that machine learning is improving the quality of VPN technology.

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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.

BA Squared

JULY 9, 2020

Business Analysis Skills from 2012 to 2020. In 2012 I wrote a blog for the BA Times on the top 10 skills for BAs. It’s time to see how this has evolved and our roles have become more valuable and essential as a result! To begin, a clarification on the BA role from then to now: In 2012 I called the BA as “A broker of information, getting big picture details from a variety of people, groups, executives, subject matter experts, vendors, technical resources, etc.”.

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Data Pine

JULY 1, 2020

“The goal is to turn data into information, and information into insight.” – Carly Fiorina, former executive, president, HP. Digital data is all around us. In fact, we create around 2.5 quintillion bytes of data every single day, with 90% of the world’s digital insights generated in the last two years alone, according to Forbes. If utilized correctly, data offers a wealth of opportunity to individuals and companies looking to improve their business’ intelligence, operational efficiency, pr

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Tim Mitchell

JULY 1, 2020

SSIS parameters help to ease the process of passing runtime values to SSIS packages. For values that can change over time, using parameters in SSIS is an ideal means of externalizing those runtime values. In this post, I’ll demonstrate how to get started using SSIS parameters. What Problem Are We Solving? To understand the need for ETL parameters, let’s first.

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Analyst Catalyst Blog

JULY 28, 2020

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