November, 2018

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Automate Testing SSAS Tabular Models

BI Insight

In real world SSAS Tabular projects, you need to run many different testing scenarios to prove your customer that the data in Tabular model is correct. If you are running a Tabular Model on top of a proper data warehouse then your life would be a bit easier than when you build your semantic model … Continue reading Automate Testing SSAS Tabular Models.

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Does Data Democratization Result in Data Anarchy and Bad Business Decisions?

ElegantJ BI

One of the most common excuses used to avoid data democratization and self-serve augmented data discovery is that the organization cannot guarantee data integrity and that, if business users have access to dated, incorrect or incomplete data, the resulting decisions will not be better but rather worse than the decisions made today. Further, this theory says that the distribution of this inaccurate data will have a systemic effect on truth and promote disastrous business decisions.

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Metaphorically Speaking

Leading Agile

Metaphors are used extensively in technical fields. I was pondering some basic questions about them, such as: What is a metaphor ? What is a metaphor not ? How does metaphor aid in understanding unfamiliar concepts? What is the value of metaphor in human communication? What are the limitations and risks of metaphor? Metaphors that have become defining terms.

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Sustainable Pace in Product Management

Roman Pichler

What is Sustainable Pace? Sustainable pace is an important agile principle. The Agile Manifesto defines it in the following way: “The sponsors, developers, and users should be able to maintain a constant pace indefinitely.” The goal is to create a healthy work environment and avoid that people are routinely overworked, lose their creativity, make mistakes, and eventually sacrifice their health.

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New DOL Final Overtime Rules: Quickstart Guide for Employers

There’s a new overtime salary threshold that will impact employers across the country. If you have an employee making less than $43,888 on July 1 or less than $58,656 on January 1, you’re going to have to start paying overtime. Download Paycor’s guide to learn: Which groups of employees are affected? How should you classify employees? Best ways to mitigate risk.

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The Importance of Corporate Due Diligence

The Analyst Agency

The Importance of Corporate Due DiligenceBy Steven Czyrny “Trust but verify” is a phrase that President Reagan once used when he was heading into high-level discussions with the Soviet Union. Today, the advice works perfectly for anyone entering into any kind of business partnership. It’s a fine idea to get excited about any kind of […]. The post The Importance of Corporate Due Diligence appeared first on The Analyst Agency.

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Automate Testing SSAS Tabular Models

BI Insight

In real world SSAS Tabular projects, you need to run many different testing scenarios to prove your customer that the data in Tabular model is correct. If you are running a Tabular Model on top of a proper data warehouse then your life would be a bit easier than when you build your semantic model … Continue reading Automate Testing SSAS Tabular Models.

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Business Intelligence Software for Shipping!

ElegantJ BI

Business Intelligence for Shipping: The Smart Choice! If you work in the shipping and distribution industry, you know how complicated life can be! The industry has come under increasing scrutiny as international trade, national trade, security concerns and other factors impact the shipping enterprise in ports, distribution hubs, and entry points around the world.

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I Just Came from the Future:Effective Product Managers are Time Travelers

Leading Agile

If you’ve met a great product person you’ve met a time traveler. The great ones, in fact, find themselves moving through the dimensions of time in the same day—sometimes even before lunch. It is essential for the success of their products that they can do this well and never get stuck in any one dimension (past, present, future) too long to neglect the needs of the other two.

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The 3 Principles Agile Leaders Should Live By During An Organizational Transformation

Agile Velocity

Today’s Agile leaders manage with a more complete arsenal of skills and techniques than leaders of the past who led fundamentally different teams. For Agile organizations, the days of top-down hierarchy and autonomous decision making have joined the floppy disk as obsolete and outdated concepts in modern business. Leaders still can be effective without following Agile business development principles, but those who embrace the Agile methodology achieve greater success, improve the customer experi

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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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Trust the Process

Juice Analytics

My son and I are really excited about the new NBA season. We are Atlanta Hawks fans, so we’re not too optimistic about this year. We know the team is young and has decided to undertake a rebuilding process. Our mantra for this season is the now familiar “trust the process”. If you’re not aware of the phrase “ Trust the Process ” comes from the Philadelphia Sixers rebuilding efforts over the past couple of years.

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Business Rules Analysis

The BA Doc

Business rules shape the daily operations and business decisions made throughout an organization. Many business rules are derived from policies driven by legal/regulatory constraints. Other business rules are developed.

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Quick Tips: How to Enable Dataflows In Power BI Service

BI Insight

Dataflows (Preview) in Power BI Service has been landed yesterday (6th November 2018). I had a little bit of difficulties to enable this cool new feature so I thought it is good to write a Quick tip about it. While Dataflows is under preveiw at the time of writing this quick tip, the situation may … Continue reading Quick Tips: How to Enable Dataflows In Power BI Service.

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Does Data Democratization Result in Data Anarchy and Bad Business Decisions?

ElegantJ BI

One of the most common excuses used to avoid data democratization and self-serve augmented data discovery is that the organization cannot guarantee data integrity and that, if business users have access to dated, incorrect or incomplete data, the resulting decisions will not be better but rather worse than the decisions made today. Further, this theory says that the distribution of this inaccurate data will have a systemic effect on truth and promote disastrous business decisions.

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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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What’s the Scope of a Unit Test?

Leading Agile

“Unit test” is a funny term. It seems to be the subject of all kinds of debate. Most of that debate is unresolvable, as it involves personal opinion and emotion above all else. Most of the issues people have with the term come down to just two things: The word “unit,” and the word “test.” People can accept the other words in the phrase, as long as we remove those two.

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What’s new in Actian DataFlow version 6.6.1?

Actian

Actian DataFlow is a parallel workflow platform for end-to-end data access, transformation, preparation, and predictive analysis that eliminates performance bottlenecks in your data-intensive applications. Complementary to the Actian Vector analytic database, DataFlow leverages concurrency, parallelism and pipelining to accelerate data movement between locations in your data architecture, creating faster results.

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2018 Data and Visualization Gift Ideas

Juice Analytics

We’re continuing our tradition of the annual data gift guide. These are some of our favorite books and gift ideas for the data scientist, designer or analyst in your life. While you’re here take a look at the Juicebox product page to see what it looks like unwrapped. Happy Holidays! New Books We Love. Books we read in 2018. The Global Economy as You've Never Seen It: 99 Ingenious Infographics That Put It All Together - A pretty interesting way of explaining a subject using infographics.

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Do Business Analysts Need to Know SQL????

The BA Doc

By now, many of us have come across job descriptions for business analysts that ask for some expertise or familiarity with SQL (Structured Query Language). We are seeing more and more of this as the focus on data and in.

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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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Quick Tips: How to Enable Dataflows In Power BI Service

BI Insight

Dataflows (Preview) in Power BI Service has been landed yesterday (6th November 2018). I had a little bit of difficulties to enable this cool new feature so I thought it is good to write a Quick tip about it. While Dataflows is under preveiw at the time of writing this quick tip, the situation may … Continue reading Quick Tips: How to Enable Dataflows In Power BI Service.

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Business Intelligence Software for Shipping!

ElegantJ BI

Business Intelligence for Shipping: The Smart Choice! If you work in the shipping and distribution industry, you know how complicated life can be! The industry has come under increasing scrutiny as international trade, national trade, security concerns and other factors impact the shipping enterprise in ports, distribution hubs, and entry points around the world.

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The Value of Your Work has Echoes

Leading Agile

I work with some really smart people. On a regular basis, they create and do things that challenge and inspire me. This morning I got up and read this post by Dave Nicolette. In it, Dave shares his thoughts on the relationship between Quality, Craft, and Value. He uses the metaphor of the impact a jazz solo has to explain the relationship between these things. .

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Top 5 LinkedIn Marketing Tips

The Analyst Agency

Top 5 LinkedIn Marketing TipsBy Steven Czyrny LinkedIn is more than just a resume site, it’s also a great marketing platform. Read on to learn about the top five LinkedIn marketing tips. LinkedIn boasts half a billion users and 10 million job postings on its platform. Given that the company just went public back in 2011, that growth […].

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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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Architecture & Governance Magazine: “Report Suggests Agile Integration Is the ‘Blueprint for Enterprise Architecture,’ Expert Agrees”

Agile Velocity

By Holt Hackney, Originally Printed in Architecture and Governance Magazine. In the first couple sentences of “Agile Integration: The Blueprint for Enterprise Architecture,” a recently released report by Red Hat, the authors write: “Business success is increasingly based on your ability to react to change. As new disruptive players enter markets and technology upends what consumers expect, organizations increasingly need to change plans in much shorter cycles than ever before.

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Does Data Democratization Result in Data Anarchy and Bad Business Decisions?

ElegantJ BI

One of the most common excuses used to avoid data democratization and self-serve augmented data discovery is that the organization cannot guarantee data integrity and that, if business users have access to dated, incorrect or incomplete data, the resulting decisions will not be better but rather worse than the decisions made today. Further, this theory says that the distribution of this inaccurate data will have a systemic effect on truth and promote disastrous business decisions.

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Business Intelligence Software for Shipping!

ElegantJ BI

Business Intelligence for Shipping: The Smart Choice! If you work in the shipping and distribution industry, you know how complicated life can be! The industry has come under increasing scrutiny as international trade, national trade, security concerns and other factors impact the shipping enterprise in ports, distribution hubs, and entry points around the world.

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Advanced Analytics Tools Can Be Your Secret Weapon!

ElegantJ BI

What is Advanced Analytics, and How Can it Help My Business? What is advanced analytics? Where to start? Advanced analytics takes analysis to the next level by providing sophisticated techniques designed to get to the heart of data and offer insight and answers with which businesses can make more accurate decisions and develop more dependable, accurate plans and forecasts.

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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.