October, 2017

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Imagine Your Perfect BI Dashboard

ElegantJ BI

A Flexible BI Dashboard is Like a Full Box of Crayons! What if a teacher gave a child a box of crayons with only two colors? Can you imagine the disappointment of that child when they compared their crayon box with the crayons the other children received and realized that the other children had so many other colors from which to choose? You’re probably wondering why I am talking about crayons but don’t worry!

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Utilizing UX and SEO for Better Marketing Results

Userzoom

How to employ UX and SEO for better marketing results. The concept of encouraging customers to buy a product or service remains the same from the days before the internet, but marketing today now relies heavily on digital platforms. Advertisers and marketers have had to adjust to a whole new world of acronyms and procedures. Let’s take a look at two of them and how you can use them for better marketing results: UX and SEO.

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Five Tips for Leveraging Empathy in Product Management

Roman Pichler

Why Empathy Matters. Possibly the most profound challenge in product management is to understand the needs of users and customers. Without developing the right understanding, our chances of creating a successful product are slim. While there are numerous techniques available to uncover user needs—think of direct observation, problem interviews, focus groups, surveys, and MVPs, to name just a few—none of them is truly useful, if we do not empathise with the people that will use our product, if we

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What’s it Like Being an Agile Coach?

Agile Coach

I’ve been pouring through old posts for another purpose, and stumbled across a diary I wrote 8 years ago while working as an Agile Coach in a large organization. As I read through the posts, I realized that the experience I had at this organization shaped my coaching style, and is more-or-less the reason why I wrote Lean Change Management once I realized ‘Agile’ had very little to do with Agile.

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5 Ways You Can Win Faster with Gen AI in Sales

Incorporating generative AI (gen AI) into your sales process can speed up your wins through improved efficiency, personalized customer interactions, and better informed decision- making. Gen AI is a game changer for busy salespeople and can reduce time-consuming tasks, such as customer research, note-taking, and writing emails, and provide insightful data analysis and recommendations.

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How do you Domo? Monster mash edition

Domo

Halloween may be full of all things spooky and scary, but we hope you’re not living a literal business nightmare today. We’re talking sluggish reports, spending hocus pocus, or last quarter’s metrics back from the dead to haunt you. Even if you are, there’s a spell to help you handle it all. It’s not magic, but it feels like it. Domo can help you tackle any business question with live data and real-time insights in an instant.

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Requirements – What’s the problem?

Capiro

Problems and solutions. The definition of requirements in terms of solving problems and satisfying objectives, originally specified by the IEEE, is now widely used. It is referenced by both the IIBA and the BCS international Diploma in Business Analysis. It is the definition that we often refer to at Capiro. In this article for the IREB Requirements Engineering newsletter.

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How to prepare your Think-Out-Loud Study in UserZoom

Userzoom

Helpful tips to start collecting think out loud feedback from participants. So you’ve decided that you’re going to collect think out loud feedback from your participants on your next UserZoom study. Exciting! There are few things as powerful as verbatim feedback from a participant as they experience your site or product. If you haven’t created a think out loud study yet with Userzoom, or you just need a quick refresher, we’re here to help!

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Blog: AgilePM: The World’s Most Popular Framework and Certification for Agile Project Management

IAG Consulting

According to APMG International, the leading global accreditation and examination institute, AgilePM® has become the world’s leading framework and certification for agile project management. As of 2017, over 52,000 exams have been taken globally since its introduction only six years ago in 2011. Most prevalent in the UK, where it was originated, it is also widespread in over 40 countries including Australia, France, Netherlands, Poland, and South Africa.

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Smarter, Better, Faster Data Discovery

ElegantJ BI

The Next, Even Better Gift: Advanced Data Discovery Tools! Have you ever noticed that when you give someone something, they often want more? This is especially true when they really like what you gave them! As the concept of business analytics becomes more main stream and business users embrace the possibilities, they (and their managers) want and expect even more tools and more potential.

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Smarter, Better, Faster Data Discovery

ElegantJ BI

The Next, Even Better Gift: Advanced Data Discovery Tools! Have you ever noticed that when you give someone something, they often want more? This is especially true when they really like what you gave them! As the concept of business analytics becomes more main stream and business users embrace the possibilities, they (and their managers) want and expect even more tools and more potential.

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HR’s Blueprint for a Successful 2025

The HR industry is changing. Did you know… 1. There will be 4M more jobs than workers by 2033 ( BLS ). 2. For 84% of workers, flexibility is a top priority ( FlexJobs ). 3. 75% of employees have used AI at work ( CFO.com ). It’s time to meet the moment! Use Paycor’s guide to design a blueprint for success.

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Smarter, Better, Faster Data Discovery

ElegantJ BI

The Next, Even Better Gift: Advanced Data Discovery Tools! Have you ever noticed that when you give someone something, they often want more? This is especially true when they really like what you gave them! As the concept of business analytics becomes more main stream and business users embrace the possibilities, they (and their managers) want and expect even more tools and more potential.

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Imagine Your Perfect BI Dashboard

ElegantJ BI

A Flexible BI Dashboard is Like a Full Box of Crayons! What if a teacher gave a child a box of crayons with only two colors? Can you imagine the disappointment of that child when they compared their crayon box with the crayons the other children received and realized that the other children had so many other colors from which to choose? You’re probably wondering why I am talking about crayons but don’t worry!

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Imagine Your Perfect BI Dashboard

ElegantJ BI

A Flexible BI Dashboard is Like a Full Box of Crayons! What if a teacher gave a child a box of crayons with only two colors? Can you imagine the disappointment of that child when they compared their crayon box with the crayons the other children received and realized that the other children had so many other colors from which to choose? You’re probably wondering why I am talking about crayons but don’t worry!

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What’s the Right BI Tool for Manufacturing?

ElegantJ BI

Is There a Simple BI for Manufacturing Solution for Business Users? Manufacturing has certainly changed over the past few decades! Global competition is greater today and local or regional manufacturers can no longer hope to achieve a competitive advantage based on location and geography alone. Products, pricing, process, quality and features drive the market and consumers are willing to purchase products from competitors to get more favorable pricing or a better, more suitable product.

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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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What’s the Right BI Tool for Manufacturing?

ElegantJ BI

Is There a Simple BI for Manufacturing Solution for Business Users? Manufacturing has certainly changed over the past few decades! Global competition is greater today and local or regional manufacturers can no longer hope to achieve a competitive advantage based on location and geography alone. Products, pricing, process, quality and features drive the market and consumers are willing to purchase products from competitors to get more favorable pricing or a better, more suitable product.

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3 keys to creating unforgettable customer experiences

Domo

There’s one thing that differentiates the giants from the crowd: their experiences. Whether you’re B2B, B2C, or straddling the line in between, more and more focus is being put on the customer experience. And let’s face it, customers are expecting more from the companies they buy from. In fact, this focus on being customer-centric is what Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce, attributes to their massive success.

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App of the Week: Monitor and Comparative Analytics

Domo

Who doesn’t want to keep tabs on the competition? In a world filled with social media data and information, having the right data and automation setup is key to good market intelligence. The folks over at Dovetale have been hard at work building marketing intelligence tools for influencer marketing. Inspired by months of conversations and work with customers, Dovetale’s team has built features that help brand managers keep constant tabs on competitors and influencers working and engaging w

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Halloween by the numbers 2.0 (Infographic)

Domo

Here at Domo, we love Halloween. We’re looking forward to holding our annual trick or treating event and Halloween costume contest at headquarters this year. We also really dig data. That’s why we love featuring the wicked Halloween stats from the National Retail Federation—a tradition we started last year. This year, the NRF surveyed thousands of customers in September and found that 7 in 10 people plan on celebrating Halloween in 2017, more people than ever before.

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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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Why companies must close the data literacy divide (part 2)

Domo

As many laments the shortage of data science talent, it should be more concerning that the vast majority of U.S. workers are increasingly unprepared to navigate today’s tsunami of data. In 2012, the Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) examined the literacy, numeracy, and problem-solving skills of adults aged 16-65 across 23 countries.

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5 ways real-time analytics can get distributed sales teams on the same page

Domo

It’s 8:30 am in your New York office, 5:30 AM in your San Francisco office, 10:30 at night in Sydney and forecasting report is overdue. Sound familiar? The speed of sales is the speed of now, and sales executives need real-time updates on everything from contract status to deal forecasting to be able to be agile enough to meet the need. But when your sales teams are buildings, time zones, or continents apart, keeping a scattered team on the same page is impossible without access to the dat

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App of the week: Salesforce Bundle

Domo

You have several deals on the verge of closing, several more on the verge of disappearing altogether, and you’re stuck running a report on what happened last week—or worse, last month. Sound all too familiar? You need insights from your CRM, and you need them now. We get it. That’s why we built apps to give you just that. This Salesforce Bundle includes three of our top Salesforce apps and drops your key sales metrics side by side where you can compare and share them with the team.

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5 sessions we’re looking forward to at Dreamforce 2017

Domo

Dreamforce 2017 is going to be amazing. There’s no question about that. When you have keynote speakers like Michelle Obama, Ashton Kutcher, and will.i.am alongside performances by Alicia Keys and Lenny Kravitz, how could it be anything short of incredible? Of course, no one’s going to miss the keynote speakers—and we’d recommend not missing any of the main session speakers, for that matter (see the full lineup of speakers here ).

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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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Top 5 technology trends that will change the way you use business intelligence

Domo

What if you could track your customers’ habits and know exactly what they were going to do—or buy—next? Or what if you could teach your computer to analyze speech, maps, videos, pictures, or handwriting? Even better, what if you had the ability to direct your analytics system to perform functions simply by talking to it? A few years ago, this might have sounded like science fiction, but these capabilities exist today.

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5 companies that are dominating with machine-learning

Domo

No, we’re not talking about sentient killer robots, and yes, AI is more than self-driving smart cars and chat bots. Natural language processing, deep learning, and machine learning are changing the way businesses are interacting with customers and how platforms are serving users. AI is certainly being touted as the next big thing, but many companies have already hit the ground running—and only gained speed since getting there—by building machine learning into the core functions of their business

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4 ways to experience Dreamforce 2017

Domo

Dreamforce 2017 is coming up fast. We’re less than one month away from this year’s event in San Francisco. It’s one of the biggest conferences of the year, and there’s a lot to take in. It’s safe to say you can’t do it all, because really, you can’t. But here are 4 roadmaps to help you make the very best of it all. 1. Catch the keynote speakers.

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4 best practices for turning prospects into customers

Domo

There are literally thousands of articles, lists, and tips about turning prospects into customers out there. Maybe that’s because converting prospects into customers isn’t exactly that easy. In fact, it’s pretty complicated, and what works in one market may not work as well in another—and even then, it’s a moving target at best.

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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.

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Crawl with analytics before running with artificial intelligence (part 2)

Domo

There are many different levels to analytics, starting with descriptive analytics (reports, dashboards) and diagnostic analytics (drill-downs, ad-hoc queries), which focus on understanding the past. The next three levels turn their attention to the future and are increasingly augmented by AI technology. While the potential of predictive, prescriptive or cognitive/autonomous analytics is exciting, there’s some essential groundwork that’s needed at the lower levels.

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Beyond pageviews: 3 metrics every digital publisher needs to pay attention to

Domo

Since the very beginning, online publishers have measured the success of their editorial departments primarily by the number of pageviews and unique visitors they receive each month. To some extent, this makes a lot of sense. The more traffic a website receives, the more ads it can serve to those users, and the more money it can make from selling those ads.

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Communication skills get you talked about

Capiro

Communication and interpersonal skills are the secret sauce of the most successful business analysts and business architects. And the further these professionals go in their careers, the more important these ‘soft skills’ become. We have included two articles by the same author on communication skills. The first covers interpersonal skills in general and provides a ‘top 10’ list of relevant communication skills.

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ElegantJ BI Included in Gartner ‘Market Guide for Traditional Enterprise Reporting Platforms’, September 2017

ElegantJ BI

ElegantJ BI , an innovative vendor in Business Intelligence and Augmented Analytics, is pleased to announce that ElegantJ BI is named as Representative Vendors in the Gartner ‘ Market Guide for Traditional Enterprise Reporting Platforms ‘ report published September 28, 2017. CEO, Kartik Patel says, “We are gratified to once again our Business Intelligence tool is included in the Gartner ‘ Market Guide for Traditional Enterprise Reporting Platforms ‘ report.

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10 Ways to Leverage Buyer Signals and Drive Revenue

In today’s ultra-competitive markets, it’s no longer enough to wait for buyers to show obvious signs of interest. Instead, sales teams must be proactive, identifying and acting on nuanced buyer behaviors — often before prospects are fully ready to make a purchase. In this eBook from ZoomInfo & Sell Better, learn 10 actionable ways to use these buyer signals to transform your sales strategy and close deals faster.