Smart Data Collective

DECEMBER 14, 2019

Predictive analytics is one of the biggest disruptive technologies shaping the eCommerce industry. IQLECT published an article on this last year titled The Importance of Predictive Analytics for E-commerce Stores. The article pointed out that companies have lagged implementing predictive analytics technology, due to cost and complexity concerns. However, this has changed as new AI technology has become more widely available.

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ElegantJ BI

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Social Business Intelligence Improves Collaboration and Results! What exactly is social business intelligence? The concept of Social BI is really quite simple. Social BI is similar to social media and social networking, in that it embraces the tasks associated with data analytics and makes these tasks and the resulting data insight a social experience by providing tools and an environment that encourages business users and team members to share data, make fact-based decisions based on that data

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Tim Mitchell

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Visual Studio and its business intelligence variant SQL Server Data Tools share a very powerful but extremely busy interface. If you happen to close out of one of the tool windows by mistake, finding the right menu option to reenable that window can take some practice. Fortunately when working with SSIS packages, there is an easy button to bring back.

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Userzoom

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Getting stakeholder buy-in for user research can be like talking to a brick wall, except the brick wall isn’t just ignoring you, it’s telling your colleagues you don’t know what you’re talking about, sends texts from their phone while you’re trying to explain something, accuses you of inventing the term “UX” and is somehow in charge of how much money you have on a daily basis.

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Smart Data Collective

DECEMBER 14, 2019

Providing excellent customer service needs to be a priority for every business. Think of your customer service department as the personality of your brand. It is also the reason why people will choose your products and services on a repeated basis. It is quite simple really, with no customers, there is no company. The path that consumers travel on to make a purchase, is called the “customer journey.

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Tim Mitchell

DECEMBER 19, 2019

This quick tip is likely to be the most brief of the entire collection, but is also one of the most practical. When testing SSIS packages during development in SQL Server Data Tools, it’s very common to run and re-run the same package numerous times. It’s fairly easy to stop and restart the package each time using the Stop and. The post One-Click Package Restart in SSDT appeared first on Tim Mitchell.

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Analyst Catalyst Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

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Smart Data Collective

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Big data is changing the role of the digital marketing profession. Companies can use big data to improve the effectiveness of their ad targeting, streamlining the user experience and measure the ROI better. Nicole Martin talked about the relevance of big data in digital marketing in her Forbes article. Smart businesses should make sure that their digital marketing agency knows how to leverage big data effectively.

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ElegantJ BI

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Social Business Intelligence Improves Collaboration and Results! What exactly is social business intelligence? The concept of Social BI is really quite simple. Social BI is similar to social media and social networking, in that it embraces the tasks associated with data analytics and makes these tasks and the resulting data insight a social experience by providing tools and an environment that encourages business users and team members to share data, make fact-based decisions based on that data

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Tim Mitchell

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Most folks I know go to one extreme or the other when it comes to the visual layout of SQL Server Integration Services packages: either they don’t care a tiny bit about the appearance, or they insist on an easy-to-read layout before a project is considered complete. I am definitely in the second group, and will almost always spend the. The post SSIS Layout Formatting Options appeared first on Tim Mitchell.

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Analyst Catalyst Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2019

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Smart Data Collective

DECEMBER 20, 2019

As the Internet of Things (IoT) becomes smarter and more advanced, we’ve started to see its usage grow across various industries. From retail and commerce to manufacturing, the technology continues to do some pretty amazing things in nearly every sector. The civil engineering field is no exception. An estimated 20 billion internet-connected devices will be active around the world by 2020.

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Sisense

DECEMBER 15, 2019

Blog. Building a data-driven business includes choosing the right software and implementing best practices around its use. Our Business Perspectives help you make smarter decisions no matter where you are in your analytics journey. Building analytics today to change tomorrow. History is as important to the future as the new ideas that will build it.

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Tim Mitchell

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Ordinarily I wouldn’t blog solely about a set of right-click options in an application, but in this Eleven Days of Festivus series I’m sharing some quick tips that have helped me in SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) and SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT). When working in Management Studio, you can access several handy functions by right-clicking any open file in.

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Userzoom

DECEMBER 18, 2019

When it comes to usability testing, many are unaware that there are two types of evaluations that can be conducted during the product design and development lifecycle. These are formative and summative usability tests. The main reason why usability tests are important is to find out the effectiveness of the design and to evaluate the ease-of-use of a product.

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Smart Data Collective

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Fraud has been an ongoing problem for quite some time now. Our technology may have become more sophisticated but so are criminals. It feels more secure now that we have several modes of verification but it’s still unsettling to see news of big companies like Facebook or Yahoo getting their data compromised. Fraud is not a small problem. The global cost of it is $4.2 trillion.

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Juice Analytics

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Juice wouldn’t be the successful company that it is today without our friends who have championed our mission and expanded our network. We have identified several of Juice’s closest friends and advocates and we want to introduce them to you! Meet Jessica Walker, the CEO of Care Sherpa! For over 14 years, Jessica has been consulting with health care organizations and providers to support patient and employee engagement strategies with demonstrated financial and quality improvement impact.

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Tim Mitchell

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Regular expressions (or simply regex for short) have long been used by system administrators and data professionals for searching and manipulating text. Regular expressions allow the user to find, replace, and manipulate text based on the pattern they define in the expression. While every text editor allows simple search-and-replace capabilities, regex allows for searching for partial matches, using wildcards, and.

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Sisense

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Blog. There’s always something brewing here. Sisense News is your home for new Sisense features, add-ons, and everything else we roll out to empower our users to get the most out of their data. A love story between Sisense BloX and Adobe XD. Big news for analytic app builders looking to make their visuals even more compelling: Sisense has an Adobe XD plugin that lets them create custom visualizations for their Sisense BloX widgets with zero code.

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Smart Data Collective

DECEMBER 16, 2019

We live in a digital era where every business aspect revolves around technology, making IT systems the core of modern-day operations. Primarily, the role that IT systems play begins and ends with data, which is the constant input and output of computerized devices. It is therefore not surprising that the current trend for businesses is to seek solutions for big data adoption and usage.

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Agile Velocity

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Sometime during my 50th trip around our star, I had a thought: I should run a marathon before I turn 60. And then those voices in my head kicked in with a nice chorus of “Yes, but…”. “You can’t even run a mile without wheezing!”. “Remember in high school — when you played soccer and lacrosse and you chose the position that required the least amount of running: goaltender?”.

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Tim Mitchell

DECEMBER 15, 2019

I’m a creature of habit. With the software tools that I use, I like to have everything in the same place every time, even if I’m working on a machine I don’t normally use. That’s especially true with SQL Server Management Studio, where the sheer number of buttons and options can force one to hunt for the feature they need. The post SSMS Tip: Portable User Settings appeared first on Tim Mitchell.

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Data Pine

DECEMBER 17, 2019

As in many other industries, the information technology sector faces the age-old issue of producing IT reports that boost success by helping to maximize value from a tidal wave of digital data. While integral to organizational success and development, without the ability to gain actionable insights from your most important data, IT reporting could be considered somewhat of a fruitless exercise.

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Insight Software

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Producing financial reports is one of the core skills that all organizations need to excel at. Reports reveal the true health of companies, highlighting the positives and negatives that will affect enterprise performance for years to come. There are countless reports to choose from, all with valuable insights to offer, but some should be considered mandatory: Income Statements.

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Juice Analytics

DECEMBER 16, 2019

In our workshops on data storytelling, dashboard design, and data visualization, we are always emphasing the need to simplify. Less is more. Who else believes in “less is more?” Well, Marie Kondo , of course. Kondo is the reigning guru of tidying-up and host of the Netflix show Tidying Up with Marie Kondo. I wondered whether we could apply Kondo’s 6 Rules of Tidying Up to the hard work of communicating with data.

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