December, 2012

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Advice for ERP Vendors, Integrators, Consultants: Integrate ERP and BI for GREAT Customer Value!

ElegantJ BI

Advice for ERP Vendors, Integrators, Consultants: Integrate ERP and BI for GREAT Customer Value! Every enterprise is cautious about IT investment. In this crazy, competitive business environment, everyone must consider the value, ROI and TCO of technology solutions. If ERP vendors want to market products and services to value conscious clients, they must provide innovative, cost-effective solutions to help the customer achieve business goals quickly and minimize investment.

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Is Your Retail Operation Naughty or Nice?

Domo

If I were starting a retail company today, my first call would go to Santa to sit on my board. Who better to guide a sprouting retailer on production processes, fulfillment and more importantly, customer experience? While Santa may be too busy at the moment to attend to such a matter personally, I think it is worth our time to consider what makes his operation so successful and maybe figure out a way to apply at least one element into our own companies.

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Function Point Analysis Example: Hands on with Agile Development

Stickyminds

In an earlier article, Dan Horvath explored some history and definitions of agile and how Function Point Analysis (FPA) can be used in the measurement of agile projects. Dan emphasizes that the definition of the project is critical to this process. In this article, Dan demonstrates the use of FPA in agile development through a hands-on example.

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Function Point Analysis Example: Hands on with Agile Development

Agile Connection

In an earlier article, Dan Horvath explored some history and definitions of agile and how Function Point Analysis (FPA) can be used in the measurement of agile projects. Dan emphasizes that the definition of the project is critical to this process. In this article, Dan demonstrates the use of FPA in agile development through a hands-on example.

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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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What the Cloud Wishes It Were

CMCrossroads

Chris Riley writes that when an organization is considering the cloud, it has to consider its approach as well. The cloud was built on the principles of initiating things fast, and only what you need when you need it. The cloud was not built for people who follow the mantras of “set it and forget it” and “plan for everything ahead of time.

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Advice for ERP Vendors, Integrators, Consultants: Integrate ERP and BI for GREAT Customer Value!

ElegantJ BI

Advice for ERP Vendors, Integrators, Consultants: Integrate ERP and BI for GREAT Customer Value! Every enterprise is cautious about IT investment. In this crazy, competitive business environment, everyone must consider the value, ROI and TCO of technology solutions. If ERP vendors want to market products and services to value conscious clients, they must provide innovative, cost-effective solutions to help the customer achieve business goals quickly and minimize investment.

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Don’t Use a Row Boat to Navigate Oceans of Data

ElegantJ BI

Don’t Use a Row Boat to Navigate Oceans of Data I recently joined a cross-functional team to recommend a business intelligence solution, improve planning and better predict results using objective metrics. Our company owns businesses in several industries and wanted to eliminate guesswork and accurately plan and measure results across all businesses.

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Don’t Use a Row Boat to Navigate Oceans of Data

ElegantJ BI

Don’t Use a Row Boat to Navigate Oceans of Data I recently joined a cross-functional team to recommend a business intelligence solution, improve planning and better predict results using objective metrics. Our company owns businesses in several industries and wanted to eliminate guesswork and accurately plan and measure results across all businesses.

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Don’t Use a Row Boat to Navigate Oceans of Data

ElegantJ BI

Don’t Use a Row Boat to Navigate Oceans of Data. I recently joined a cross-functional team to recommend a business intelligence solution, improve planning and better predict results using objective metrics. Our company owns businesses in several industries and wanted to eliminate guesswork and accurately plan and measure results across all businesses.

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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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The Digital Age

Domo

Back in the mid 1990’s I attended a wedding where the father of a friend was showing off his new digital camera. Groups of friends, families and wedding party members were clustered together waiting for their turn to pose for “digital” photo. The process was largely familiar: everyone stands together, smiles, a quick “1-2-3-say-cheese” countdown, and then the camera’s flash deploys leaving the posing subjects blinking awkwardly as their eyes attempt to readjust to the dim lighting of the room.

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A Clear View of Your Data

Domo

The fact that it gets dark earlier this time of year means that we have more time to study the night sky. For thousands of years, mankind has looked to the night sky in wonder while considering the seemingly numberless stars. A great deal of information has been gathered about the stars themselves, and scientists have used their observations about the behavior of the the stars in the sky to determine many things about the universe.

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Driving DevOps Through Shared Knowledge and Control

Stickyminds

For development, a production application should be fully baked and not in what would be considered a “development” state. Tracy Ragan explains that frequent releases are a basic requirement of rapid development methodologies like agile and this impacts the way in which development teams and production control teams must interact.

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Driving DevOps Through Shared Knowledge and Control

Agile Connection

For development, a production application should be fully baked and not in what would be considered a “development” state. Tracy Ragan explains that frequent releases are a basic requirement of rapid development methodologies like agile and this impacts the way in which development teams and production control teams must interact.

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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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DevOps in the Enterprise

CMCrossroads

A great way to establish your software engineering processes, training, best practices, reports, and metrics is to build a center of excellence (CoE). When complete, a CoE is a team, or entity, that provides the leadership and governance in a focus area.

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The Center of Excellence

CMCrossroads

A great way to establish your software engineering processes, training, best practices, reports, and metrics is to build a center-of-excellence (CoE). When complete, a CoE is a team, or entity, that provides the leadership and governance in a focus area. Often the leadership is in the form of items such as, training, documentation, metrics, reporting.

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Driving DevOps Through Shared Knowledge and Control

CMCrossroads

For development, a production application should be fully baked and not in what would be considered a “development” state. Tracy Ragan explains that frequent releases are a basic requirement of rapid development methodologies like agile and this impacts the way in which development teams and production control teams must interact.

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Lessons From Fast-Growth Company CEOs Go Beyond Social Media

Domo

I recently shared my thoughts on why CEOs need to embrace social media. The post was inspired by a study on the social media habits of Fortune 500 CEOs, which showed an alarming absence of these powerful executives on the most popular social networks. Today CEO.com released the findings of a follow up study that compares the social media habits of Inc. 500 CEOs against the Fortune 500 CEOs.

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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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Gain Greater Testing Precision Through Adaptive Test Methods

Stickyminds

Brooke Bowie explains how "adaptive" software testing provides nimble, high-value software test solutions that bend and shift with the changing needs of the market or the environment. High-value testing does not mean that you need to perform all end-to-end testing or run the full suite of tests; this can potentially create a bottleneck and dampen the velocity.

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Gain Greater Testing Precision Through Adaptive Test Methods

Agile Connection

Brooke Bowie explains how "adaptive" software testing provides nimble, high-value software test solutions that bend and shift with the changing needs of the market or the environment. High-value testing does not mean that you need to perform all end-to-end testing or run the full suite of tests; this can potentially create a bottleneck and dampen the velocity.

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Gain Greater Testing Precision Through Adaptive Test Methods

CMCrossroads

Brooke Bowie explains how "adaptive" software testing provides nimble, high-value software test solutions that bend and shift with the changing needs of the market or the environment. High-value testing does not mean that you need to perform all end-to-end testing or run the full suite of tests; this can potentially create a bottleneck and dampen the velocity.

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