Smart Data Collective

APRIL 22, 2019

. When you’re presenting data analytics or any technical information to a non-technical audience, it can be difficult. You have to think about the components of a good presentation in general, but also how to simplify complex subjects and information and make them resonate with your target audience. If you’re someone who understands data analytics well or is highly technical, it can be especially challenging to know how to make your presentation work for the needs of an audience which is differ

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ElegantJ BI

APRIL 26, 2019

Natural Language Processing Makes Advanced Analytics Accessible to Every User! Whether you know it or not, you are familiar with Natural Language Processing. Applications of NLP include search techniques used in Google and other popular tools. The use of natural language processing in self-serve advanced analytics solutions can mean the difference between a simple, yet sophisticated, business user tool and a tool that is only suitable for a data scientist or professional analyst.

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Analyst Catalyst Blog

APRIL 23, 2019

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Leading Agile

APRIL 24, 2019

A Metaphorical Journey. As we guide clients through organizational Transformation, we apply our System of Transformation incrementally via Expeditions. An Expedition is a “journey” from the current state to a goal state, starting wherever the client organization may be in our Compass model, and striving to reach a milestone in the Transformation that we represent as a “Basecamp,” in keeping with a mountain-climbing or hiking metaphor.

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Smart Data Collective

APRIL 24, 2019

Manufacturing is a more powerful and essential part of our industries and economies than ever. But setting these vital enterprises up for maximum success and unrivaled innovation takes information — and that means gathering data. If you represent a manufacturing concern and you’re wondering about the benefits of capturing and analyzing operational data , you’ve come to the right place.

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Sisense

APRIL 24, 2019

In organizations that operate without a data warehouse or separate analytical database for reporting, the only source of the latest and up-to-date data may be in the live production database. When querying a production database, optimization is key. An inefficient query may pose a burden on the production database’s resources, and cause slow performance or loss of service for other users if the query contains errors.

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Analyst Catalyst Blog

APRIL 23, 2019

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Smart Data Collective

APRIL 23, 2019

Influencers are rapidly transforming the digital marketing landscape. Nearly two out of five plan to increase their influencer marketing budgets substantially in the coming year. Only 7% of respondents in a recent poll spent less than $10,000 on influencer marketing. However, many brands are still struggling to cultivate their ideal influencer marketing strategy.

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ElegantJ BI

APRIL 26, 2019

Natural Language Processing Makes Advanced Analytics Accessible to Every User! Whether you know it or not, you are familiar with Natural Language Processing. Applications of NLP include search techniques used in Google and other popular tools. The use of natural language processing in self-serve advanced analytics solutions can mean the difference between a simple, yet sophisticated, business user tool and a tool that is only suitable for a data scientist or professional analyst.

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Leading Agile

APRIL 26, 2019

Agile was designed to work in a particular organizational context. It was designed for a certain kind of team structure. It was designed for a certain kind of governance. It was designed for a certain kind of organizational ecosystem. My fundamental hypothesis is because of a lot of different things, dependencies first amongst them, it’s very difficult to get that context in play.

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Analyst Catalyst Blog

APRIL 23, 2019

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Smart Data Collective

APRIL 20, 2019

Many people believe that digital media is rapidly replacing traditional forms of branding. They believe that advances in big data have made business cards, brochures and direct mail marketing obsolete. Nothing could be further from the truth. We previously published an article on the state of direct mail marketing. We showed that marketers are actually using big data to improve the performance of their direct mail marketing campaigns.

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ElegantJ BI

APRIL 24, 2019

Data Analytics Tools Will Help You Solve Problems and Optimize Business! If your business is looking for more insight, more targeted decisions and improved revenue and agility, data analytics is a necessary component of your strategy. If you are considering data analytics tools, it is important to consider that a data democratization initiative that will provide self-serve business intelligence tools to business users will reap more benefits than static, restrictive data analytics software that

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Leading Agile

APRIL 25, 2019

Metrics are important. Tracking work is important. “What gets measured gets done.” But, if you don’t understand why you’re measuring things, or what the problem you’re trying to solve when you begin measuring things—no amount of metrics is going to help. . In this episode of SoundNotes, LeadingAgile Senior Consultant, Jessica Wolfe and Dave Prior talk about metrics and how important it is to understand what problem you’re trying to solve when you begin using metrics to

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Perceptual Edge

APRIL 21, 2019

To thoroughly, accurately, and clearly inform, we must identify the intended signal and then boost it while eliminating as much noise as possible. This certainly applies to data visualization, which unfortunately lends itself to a great deal of noise if we’re not careful and skilled. The signal in a stream of content is the intended message, the information we want people to understand.

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Smart Data Collective

APRIL 23, 2019

The combination of technologies used to create and run web applications varies in complexity, scalability, and latency. The technology stack you should user to power your web application depends on a variety of factors. Here’s a rundown of each type of tech your web app needs to work , and what to consider before beginning development. How web development works.

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ElegantJ BI

APRIL 24, 2019

The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines the word ‘augment’ this way: ‘to make greater, more numerous, larger or more intense’ If you are wondering how this applies to the term ‘augmented analytics’, you are not alone. Let’s take a closer look at Augmented Analytics and talk about why it has gotten so much attention in the business intelligence world.

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Phocas

APRIL 21, 2019

By taking control of your data, business people are better equipped to drive growth by developing effective strategies, negotiating better prices with suppliers, increasing sales, and managing risks. In this blog, we will outline a few key ways to leverage data to position your company for success.

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Data Pine

APRIL 23, 2019

In today’s business world, competition is fierce across all industries and sectors, which means that to survive and thrive, working with measurable online data analysis and performance metrics is essential. Studies suggest that by 2020, customer experience (CX) will be the main brand differentiator (according to a research conducted by the customer experience consultant company Walker), surpassing factors such as price and product in terms of importance to today’s digitally native consumers.

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Smart Data Collective

APRIL 24, 2019

Big data is changing the nature of email marketing. Although data analytics has played a vital role in split-testing campaign variables, there are other benefits as well. One way that big data is helping in email marketing is improving team collaboration. New tools have made it easier for teams to coordinate with each other on their email marketing strategies.

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ElegantJ BI

APRIL 24, 2019

Data Analytics Tools Will Help You Solve Problems and Optimize Business! If your business is looking for more insight, more targeted decisions and improved revenue and agility, data analytics is a necessary component of your strategy. If you are considering data analytics tools, it is important to consider that a data democratization initiative that will provide self-serve business intelligence tools to business users will reap more benefits than static, restrictive data analytics software that

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Sisense

APRIL 21, 2019

When your organization decides to pull the trigger on a cloud migration, a lot of stuff will start happening all at once. Regardless of how long the planning process has been, once data starts being relocated, a variety of competing factors that have all been theoretical become devastatingly real: frontline business users still want to be able to run analyses while the migration is happening, your data engineers are concerned with the switch from whatever database you were using before, and the

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Juice Analytics

APRIL 21, 2019

Often customer data products or applications go awry because of poor requirements. While customers can describe a billing workflow or a mobile app feature, explaining how data should be used is less clear. Merely documenting a wish list of reports, fields and filters is a recipe for low adoption and canceled subscriptions. To ensure that data requirements are relevant and the solution is useful to customers (profitable too) consider the expression Walking a Mile in their Shoes.

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Phocas

APRIL 25, 2019

Sales methods must adapt to a rapidly changing marketplace. Therefore, it’s crucial that sales teams have access to accurate data in real-time so they can adjust their techniques as needed. Having a clear view of their performance gives them the power to make the adjustments necessary to hit their marks and stay ahead of the competition.

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ElegantJ BI

APRIL 24, 2019

The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines the word ‘augment’ this way: ‘to make greater, more numerous, larger or more intense’ If you are wondering how this applies to the term ‘augmented analytics’, you are not alone. Let’s take a closer look at Augmented Analytics and talk about why it has gotten so much attention in the business intelligence world.

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