August, 2019

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How Data Analytics Tools Eliminate Business Owner Headaches

Smart Data Collective

Big data has the power to transform any small business. However, many small businesses don’t know how to utilize it. One study found that 77% of small businesses don’t even have a big data strategy. If your company lacks a big data strategy, then you need to start developing one today. The best thing that you can do is find some data analytics tools to solve your most pressing challenges.

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AI – The online gaming industry’s new game-changer

BizAcuity

Artificial intelligence – We’ve all heard about it. It’s everywhere, in your cell phone, your social media apps, Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant – you name it. Let’s just agree that it’s become a norm in the technology space and is destined to make an appearance in almost every area of our lives in the coming years.

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Some Real-World Examples of Experience Management, Powered by The Intelligent Enterprise

Timo Elliott

Experience management is about combining experience data (x-data) with operational data (o-data) to optimize every experience that matters in the organization, from the customer journey to an upgrade of your IT systems. In this short keynote presentation from the SAP Festival in Brussels, I give examples of real-life organizations that are using X+O data to listen, understand, and act on business opportunities to fix the “experience gaps” that permeate modern life.

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White Paper – Accelerating Advanced Analytics in an Immature Analytics Culture

ElegantJ BI

For organizations that wish to leverage advanced analytics, the first order of business is to evaluate the maturity of the advanced analytical culture within the organization and among its users and decide whether the entire team is ready to take on the task of accurately analyzing business results, and planning and making course corrections on a daily basis.

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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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How Are The Skills Needed to be a Strong Agile BA Different Than a Traditional BA? | Analyst Catalyst Blog | IIBA

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Why Consumer Data Privacy Is More Important Than Ever

Smart Data Collective

Your corporation might collect thousands of data points on your global customers, or your local business might simply maintain and regularly update an email list of your most interested buyers. Whether you fall into one of these extremes or somewhere in the middle, you’re responsible for collecting and maintaining consumer data. And these days, that data privacy matters more than ever before.

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Prescriptive Analytics – a Winning Bet for Casinos

BizAcuity

The casino business is one that is booming quickly. It has not only tripled in size in recent years but sources predict that it is about to rise to new heights in the coming years. While its operation could throw many challenges your way, it presents even more and bigger opportunities. Ever since the digitization of casinos, casino managers are being exposed to a great deal of data.

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Take Advantage Of The Top 16 Sales Graphs And Charts To Boost Your Business

Data Pine

Billionaire Tilman Fertitta walks into the room. You can’t believe this heavyweight, the CEO and sole owner of multiple restaurant franchises, has given you the time of day. Tilman sits down, settles himself, and glances at the clock. “Well friend,” he says, “I have about three or four minutes before I have to get out of here. What do you wanna know?”.

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Business Intelligence and Analytics for All Users!

ElegantJ BI

Data Analysis for Business Supports Fact-Based Decisions! Business intelligence and analytics are necessary tools for every business today. No business manager or team member can make decisions in vacuum and business intelligence and analytics tools are key to fact-based, data-driven decisions that will ensure positive results, help the business to avoid missteps and critical errors and allow the enterprise to anticipate changes in the competitive landscape and in customer buying behavior.

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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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BA Lens Focus on Agile | Analyst Catalyst Blog

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Build the right thing: How to kick off a software design project with the Discovery Phase

Userzoom

Every project we do at Natural Interaction starts with discovery. This phase is probably my favourite because it’s about gathering evidence. Like Sherlock Holmes, we go about finding the information we need to solve our client’s problem. We meet with the key stakeholders to workshop and ask questions, and we speak to users about what they expect that thing to do.

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How Data Analytics Can Help You Grow Your Business

Smart Data Collective

Setting up a business is probably the most difficult part of every entrepreneur’s journey. It requires dedication, contemplation, a lot of effort, and a bit of foresight. Once you build it from the ground up, you should know that your work doesn’t stop there. On the contrary, the moment you start settling in, you need to do some thinking again. You might wonder why that is necessary.

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Prescriptive Analytics – a Winning Bet for Casinos

BizAcuity

The casino business is one that is booming quickly. It has not only tripled in size in recent years but sources predict that it is about to rise to new heights in the coming years. While its operation could throw many challenges your way, it presents even more and bigger opportunities. Ever since the digitization of casinos, casino managers are being exposed to a great deal of data.

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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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Surviving Agile 2019 w/ Priya Sethuraman

Leading Agile

We’re just days away from the start of the biggest Agile event of the year. Agile 2019 begins in Washington D.C. on August 5th and LeadingAgile will be there in full force. In this episode of SoundNotes, LeadingAgile Executive Talent Lead Priya Sethuraman joins Dave Prior to share some tips and advice for those attending the conference who want to make the most out of their time.

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Business Intelligence and Analytics for All Users!

ElegantJ BI

Data Analysis for Business Supports Fact-Based Decisions! Business intelligence and analytics are necessary tools for every business today. No business manager or team member can make decisions in vacuum and business intelligence and analytics tools are key to fact-based, data-driven decisions that will ensure positive results, help the business to avoid missteps and critical errors and allow the enterprise to anticipate changes in the competitive landscape and in customer buying behavior.

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Is Your Organization Struggling with Agile? | Analyst Catalyst Blog

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How to design a Remote Unmoderated Usability Test

Userzoom

Remote unmoderated usability testing is a flexible and versatile methodology that caters to various research needs. It’s known for its economy with time and money in comparison to a lab-based study, and it can provide statistically valid quantitative data, as well as immediacy to usability issues with video, qualitative, and behavioral data. In the following article, we’ll take you through the seven steps you need to follow to create an effective project plan for all remote unmoderated usa

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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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Big Data Makes Black Hat Hackers More Terrifying Than Ever

Smart Data Collective

Big data is the lynchpin of new advances in cybersecurity. Unfortunately, predictive analytics and machine learning technology is a double-edged sword for cybersecurity. Hackers are also exploiting this technology, which means that there is a virtual arms race between cybersecurity companies and black hat cybercriminals. Datanami has talked about the ways that hackers use big data to coordinate attacks.

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Forrester Has Expanded Its Coverage Of eCommerce In Latin America!

Forrester - Business Intelligence

With a population of over half a billion and two countries that rank among the world’s 15 largest economies, Latin America is firmly on the radar of digital business executives looking to expand their digital offerings. In a recent report, Forrester covers regional and country-level eCommerce trends in the six largest economies in Latin America: […].

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Team TIBCO–SVB is Better Together

TIBCO

Here at TIBCO, we’re all about being better together. TIBCO knows that innovation does not happen in isolation—innovation is a team sport. When provided with the right tools, the right mindset, and the right teammates, the impact of innovation can change the game. Usually, when one thinks about teamwork, they consider traditional sports; football, basketball, etc.

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Business Intelligence and Analytics for All Users!

ElegantJ BI

Data Analysis for Business Supports Fact-Based Decisions! Business intelligence and analytics are necessary tools for every business today. No business manager or team member can make decisions in vacuum and business intelligence and analytics tools are key to fact-based, data-driven decisions that will ensure positive results, help the business to avoid missteps and critical errors and allow the enterprise to anticipate changes in the competitive landscape and in customer buying behavior.

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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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How have BA Professionals adapted to the agile world? | Analyst Catalyst Blog | IIBA

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UX Truth Bombs: How to prepare for hard lessons during user research

Userzoom

Speaking to users, whether for research or testing purposes, provides invaluable insight into how people behave and what they need. The more users we speak to, the more we know. But even the best of us will face some hard truths from users no matter what stage we are in our career. Testing designs, whether it’s the first time or the 100th time, can be an incredibly eye-opening experience.

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5 Business Expenses That Data Can Help Reduce

Smart Data Collective

No matter what industry you’re in, identifying creative ways to cut costs is always an important goal. From small startups to major corporations, cost-saving tactics should be an important area to explore. Even when your business cost and costs of production aren’t growing exponentially, chances are everything around you is. Cost of living is rising; customer acquisition is more difficult than ever in such a competitive landscape; and suppliers are looking to increase their profits by upcharging

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How do you Track Value in an Agile Transformation?

Leading Agile

There are a lot of vanity metrics floating around in Agile. The fact of the matter is it doesn’t matter how many ScrumMasters you run through a CSM class, it doesn’t matter how many people you train, and how many daily standups you run. While those things might be necessary, on their own they don’t provide true value to your organization.

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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.