BizAcuity
FEBRUARY 22, 2019
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.
Timo Elliott
FEBRUARY 4, 2019
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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BI Insight
FEBRUARY 26, 2019
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.
ElegantJ BI
FEBRUARY 26, 2019
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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Roman Pichler
FEBRUARY 4, 2019
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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BizAcuity
FEBRUARY 1, 2019
Welcome to the smart age. Technology has spread its roots to almost all realms of business, so much so that ‘smart’ has become today’s norm. That’s a great deal of progress, yes. But it doesn’t mean technology has done everything there is that can be done. Sitting behind our desks, tapping away on our keyboards, we’re constantly on the pursuit to push technology; pick it up and put it a new scenario and see what we can achieve.
Timo Elliott
FEBRUARY 2, 2019
A keynote at the SOA People conference, on the theme of Building The Intelligent Enterprise. Slides: ? ?. Building the Intelligent Enterprise from Timo Elliott.
BI Insight
FEBRUARY 13, 2019
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?
ElegantJ BI
FEBRUARY 26, 2019
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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Agile Velocity
FEBRUARY 11, 2019
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.
Leading Agile
FEBRUARY 25, 2019
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?
BizAcuity
FEBRUARY 8, 2019
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.
EBG Consulting
FEBRUARY 21, 2019
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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BI Insight
FEBRUARY 26, 2019
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.
ElegantJ BI
FEBRUARY 26, 2019
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.
Juice Analytics
FEBRUARY 17, 2019
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.
Leading Agile
FEBRUARY 18, 2019
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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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
BizAcuity
FEBRUARY 15, 2019
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.
EBG Consulting
FEBRUARY 4, 2019
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.
BI Insight
FEBRUARY 13, 2019
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.
ElegantJ BI
FEBRUARY 21, 2019
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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Domo
FEBRUARY 21, 2019
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
Leading Agile
FEBRUARY 26, 2019
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.
The Analyst Agency
FEBRUARY 5, 2019
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.
Agile Velocity
FEBRUARY 15, 2019
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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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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