February, 2019

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The Intricacies of Financial Analytics in the Event Industry

BizAcuity

Financial Analytics – An Outlook. In today’s world of competitive businesses, analytics is an essential part of staying competitive especially in this digital era where data is omnipresent. Financial analytics is helping businesses in understanding current and past performance; predict future performance thereby arriving at making smarter decisions.

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Innovation With Purpose Across An Entire Industry: The SAP Plastic Challenge

Timo Elliott

Over 50 tonnes of plastic waste were generated across the European Union last year, according to a study by the World Wildlife Fund , and consumers are increasingly concerned about the potential environmental impacts vividly illustrated in programs such as the BBC’s Blue Planet. Stephen Jamieson , Head of SAP Leonardo in the UK, saw an opportunity to innovate with purpose.

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Is There a Mobile App That Will Help Me Leverage Tally?

ElegantJ BI

How Can I Get More From My Tally Solution? Tally users love the accounting and finance features of the Tally solution and would love nothing more than to take that desktop application on the road. But, without mobile access, these users must do without the crucial support of the Tally solution and the data it contains. Today, there is a Tally Mobile App and that is changing the landscape for users who are on the road, or wish to work from home.

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Quick Tips: Time Dimension with Granularity of Seconds in Power BI and Analysis Services Tabular Models

BI Insight

In an article I posted a while back I showed different methods of creating Time dimension in Power BI and Tabular models. The Time dimension I explained was in Minutes. In this post I show you simple way to create Time dimension supporting Seconds. As this is a quick tip, I only show you how … Continue reading Quick Tips: Time Dimension with Granularity of Seconds in Power BI and Analysis Services Tabular Models.

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The HR Leader’s Workforce Management Guide

In today’s fast-paced business world, effective workforce management (WFM) isn’t just an option—it’s a necessity.

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Listen to Understand: Listening Practices for Product People

Roman Pichler

Listen to Understand, not to Answer. “Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply,” wrote Steve Covey in his book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. It’s true: We often listen with a specific goal in mind, with the intention to reply, to share our perspective, or to convince the other person. As a consequence, we don’t pay full attention to what the other person is saying or filter what is being said; we only hear what supports our view.

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Questioning Agile Dogma

Leading Agile

When I first learned about Agile methods in 2002, the principles seemed to offer an ideal solution to many organizational issues common at the time. When I applied those principles in real-world situations, they worked remarkably well. Today, some of the same principles seem to present impediments or unnecessary challenges for many teams and organizations.

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Building The Intelligent Enterprise

Timo Elliott

A keynote at the SOA People conference, on the theme of Building The Intelligent Enterprise. Slides: ? ?. Building the Intelligent Enterprise from Timo Elliott.

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Is There a Mobile App That Will Help Me Leverage Tally?

ElegantJ BI

How Can I Get More From My Tally Solution? Tally users love the accounting and finance features of the Tally solution and would love nothing more than to take that desktop application on the road. But, without mobile access, these users must do without the crucial support of the Tally solution and the data it contains. Today, there is a Tally Mobile App and that is changing the landscape for users who are on the road, or wish to work from home.

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Implementing On-premises Data Gateway In Enterprises, What I Need to Know?

BI Insight

If you are a Business Intelligence consultant working in Power Platform, Azure Logic Apps and Azure Analysis Services landscape, you probably felt that On-premises Data Gateway is one of the essential parts of your engagements with your customers. Installing On-premises Data Gateway can go smoothly if you already have a well-thought implementation plan otherwise, it … Continue reading Implementing On-premises Data Gateway In Enterprises, What I Need to Know?

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5 Agile Trends We’re Seeing in 2019

Agile Velocity

We’ve been watching companies thrive—and struggle—for a long time. 2019 is our ninth year as a company and marks over 15 years of my personal work with clients as they transition to Agile. Throughout our time as a team, we’ve identified many key issues and problems that affect companies on their Path to Agility. Here are five Agile trends to look out for this year: 1.

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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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Roadmapping and Budgeting with Rapid Estimation

Leading Agile

Organizations tend to do strategy top down and they tend to do that uninformed about organizational capacity and dependencies. A primary cause of an organization’s lack of predictability, lack of quality, all the problems they have, is the inability to balance capacity and demand. Another is the inability to identify and manage dependencies. The portfolio team has to be able to participate in this discussion: What is the capacity of my system?

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The Dawn of Cloud Based BI

BizAcuity

A wise man once said nothing stays the same forever. We don’t know in which context he had said it, but it’s very true in today’s scenario, especially because of technology. Disruption is everywhere. Cloud computing first emerged in the 1950s with the development of microchips and mainframe computers. Users operated these computers through terminal computers for the efficient use of CPU resources.

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Retrospectives Make Better Product Outcomes

EBG Consulting

Frustrated with the outcomes of your products? Are you, as a product manager, struggling with your development team? In my work as a product coach, achieving less than stellar product outcomes is all too common. Surprisingly, the solution to better outcomes may be right under your nose. The answer is in retrospectives. To create and sustain a culture for creating better product outcomes, product leaders encourage and participate in product retrospectives.

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Is There a Mobile App That Will Help Me Leverage Tally?

ElegantJ BI

How Can I Get More From My Tally Solution? Tally users love the accounting and finance features of the Tally solution and would love nothing more than to take that desktop application on the road. But, without mobile access, these users must do without the crucial support of the Tally solution and the data it contains. Today, there is a Tally Mobile App and that is changing the landscape for users who are on the road, or wish to work from home.

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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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Quick Tips: Time Dimension with Granularity of Seconds in Power BI and Analysis Services Tabular Models

BI Insight

In an article I posted a while back I showed different methods of creating Time dimension in Power BI and Tabular models. The Time dimension I explained was in Minutes. In this post I show you simple way to create Time dimension supporting Seconds. As this is a quick tip, I only show you how … Continue reading Quick Tips: Time Dimension with Granularity of Seconds in Power BI and Analysis Services Tabular Models.

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Upcoming Webinar: Agile Case Study: Leading Change At Texas Mutual

Agile Velocity

When disruption knocks on the door, do you fight or take flight? In 2018, Texas Mutual chose to fight. After decades at the forefront of workers’ compensation insurance for the state of Texas, Texas Mutual recognized that they would have to change how they delivered value in order to stay at the top. Cue Agile. In our next webinar, Erik Cottrell will interview Texas Mutual COO and Agile Velocity client, Jeanette Ward.

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Congruence Between Agile Process and Ecosystem

Leading Agile

In a recent SoundNotes Q&A with Mike Cottmeyer , our Fearless Leader fielded questions on a range of topics related to organizational transformation and agility. One key point he made was that any process or method, such as Scrum, LeSS, SAFe, etc., is designed to operate under certain conditions. Each process or method assumes it will be used in an ecosystem that has certain characteristics.

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An Overview of Sales Analytics in Event Industry

BizAcuity

Sales Analytics in simple terms can be defined as the process used to identify, understand, predict and model sales trends and sales results and in this process of understanding of these trends helps its users in finding improvement points. Sales Analytics is used to determine the success of the previous sales drive and forecast in addition to determine how future sales will fare.

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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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Using the Product Canvas to Define Your Product’s Core Requirements

EBG Consulting

The Product Canvas can help address a number of challenges as you transition to a product-centric organization. You may want to take a step back to rethink your product strategy. Perhaps you realize you’re not organized for optimal product development and need to redesign your organization so its structure follows product. Or maybe you need to improve your product management practices.

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White Paper – Organizational Readiness Is Crucial to the Success of an Advanced Analytics Initiative

ElegantJ BI

There are many variables to the success of an advanced analytics solution but the primary pitfalls for this type of project can be traced back to poor planning. If the organization is not ready for self-serve advanced analytics, the initiative will fail. Organizational readiness is, in fact, one of the most overlooked issues in any type of software, system or technology introduction.

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Definitive Guide to Implement On-premises Data Gateway (Enterprise Mode) in Organisations

BI Insight

If you are a Business Intelligence consultant working in Power Platform, Azure Logic Apps and Azure Analysis Services landscape, you probably felt that On-premises Data Gateway is one of the essential parts of your engagements with the your customers. Installing On-premises Data Gateway can go smoothly if you already have a well thought implementation plan … Continue reading Definitive Guide to Implement On-premises Data Gateway (Enterprise Mode) in Organisations.

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Customer-Facing Data Solutions Need a Product Mindset

Juice Analytics

If most customer data initiatives are risky, have low adoption , and often don’t meet their goals, what steps can we take to improve success rates? What we’ve learned at Juice over 10 years and hundreds of implementations is that customer-facing data initiatives succeed when you deliver a product, not a project. You need a product mindset to reduce risks, make customers happy, and deliver revenue.

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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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Skill Sets, Flow, and Transformation

Leading Agile

I’m going to repeat a mistake I often make, and harp on a word choice. I’m aware of the risks. The word of the day is: Developer. This quote from Angie Jones, in a TechBeacon article , illustrates the problematic use of the word: “To become an automation engineer you had to possess the skill set of a developer and the mindset of a tester.” I might re-phrase that to say “skill set of a programmer and mindset of a tester.” Why?

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Becoming a Constellation Mainstay and Launching the Domo Media Suite

Domo

When it comes to selling someone on the power of the Domo platform, there’s nothing more useful than a third-party testimonial. That’s why last week’s announcement that Domo made the Constellation ShortList for Marketing Analytics Solutions—for the fourth time, I might add—was so well received around here. In determining its list for Q1 2019, Constellation Research, a technology research and advisory firm based in Silicon Valley, examined what various business intelligence and analytics provider

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How We Help Companies Improve With Market Research

The Analyst Agency

Market Research: Gain Valuable Insights Here at The Analyst Agency, we offer a full consultancy service to businesses who want to experience growth. One of the ways that we do this is by offering in-depth market research that helps you to identify opportunities for growth within your own business and your industry as a whole. We […]. The post How We Help Companies Improve With Market Research appeared first on The Analyst Agency.

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Data Visualization Tools Make Sense of Confusing Data!

ElegantJ BI

What is Smart Data Visualization? Smart data visualization is a crucial part of advanced analytics. Smart visualization allows business users to view and analyze data to identify a problem, clarify a root cause, identify a business opportunity, and to make confident decisions. Business users can interact easily with visual analytics tools to build a view that will tell a compelling story using guided visualization tools so there is no need for assistance from data scientists or delay in finding,

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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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Only The Best: Expecting The Most From Your Agile Partner

Agile Velocity

I’ve found most executives genuinely want to know, “How do I help our Agile transformation?” Becoming an agile company is new for leaders and teams. Yet, leaders are often left out while teams get the lion’s share of the attention from Agile coaches. As a fellow leader, I feel for them. It’s crucial for leaders to be on board with any type of transformation.

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Why Choose iPaaS for your Hybrid Integration Needs?

Actian

The data your company manages is both diverse and ever changing. Connecting source systems across hybrid infrastructure environments may seem challenging initially, but keeping your connections current with the myriad of changes occurring in your IT environment is where you will truly experience a headache. Implementing an integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) solution, such as Actian DataConnect , can make the process much easier.

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Product-Driven Organizations:The Evolution of Agile

Leading Agile

The Evolution of Agile. Agile has been great. Revolutionary, even. Organizations are producing software faster, creating more cross-functional and collaborative teams than ever before. However, a lot of Agilists are experiencing diminishing returns on their investment to go Agile. Why is that? The reality is that you’ve likely tapped the potential of your Agile practices and you’ve reaped all the benefits of the Agile culture that you’ve instilled already.

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Every Company Needs a Bridge Builder to Close the Data Gap

Domo

Data is the lifeblood of a company’s business, but its value is severely diminished when it’s locked away in silos. That’s why every CIO needs to be a bridge builder. In a recent report , Gartner wrote that most organizations have identified the need to build a data-driven organization, a development reflected by the increasing appointment of chief data officers (CDO).

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Why (and How) to Switch to a New HR & Payroll Platform

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HR and payroll impact every aspect of your business. Choosing the right provider is one of the most important decisions you’ll make. Before you decide, hear first-hand customer accounts in Paycor’s webinar to learn: The three most important things to look for when switching. How to begin your search. What are some of the red flags?