Analyst Catalyst Blog

JUNE 30, 2020

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Timo Elliott

JULY 3, 2020

I’ve been interviewing customers recently on how digital technologies have helped their organizations be resilient in the current environment. Here’s a short recap of what I’ve so far found works best for non-professionals like myself who still want to be able to put together a polished, edited result. Arrange a Zoom call. There are alternatives, but Zoom seems to have the best quality, for now.

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ElegantJ BI

JULY 1, 2020

Smarten is pleased to announce SmartenApps, its newest addition to the Smarten augmented analytics suite of offerings. The Smarten: eCommerce Analytics for Shopify by Elegant MicroWeb is an augmented analytics and reporting solution integrated with Shopify eCommerce. With Smarten eCommerce Analytics for Shopify, users gain insight into data in a unique and meaningful way.

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Tim Mitchell

JULY 1, 2020

SSIS parameters help to ease the process of passing runtime values to SSIS packages. For values that can change over time, using parameters in SSIS is an ideal means of externalizing those runtime values. In this post, I’ll demonstrate how to get started using SSIS parameters. What Problem Are We Solving? To understand the need for ETL parameters, let’s first.

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Analyst Catalyst Blog

JUNE 30, 2020

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Data Pine

JULY 1, 2020

“The goal is to turn data into information, and information into insight.” – Carly Fiorina, former executive, president, HP. Digital data is all around us. In fact, we create around 2.5 quintillion bytes of data every single day, with 90% of the world’s digital insights generated in the last two years alone, according to Forbes. If utilized correctly, data offers a wealth of opportunity to individuals and companies looking to improve their business’ intelligence, operational efficiency, pr

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BA Squared

JUNE 30, 2020

A Tale of Two Teams. Let’s take a look at backlog refinement from two approaches: . Team A . A customer provides the team with feedback on their website ordering process and says “I want a button on my email receipt for my order to “view shipping details”. The team prioritizes this and gets to work. They build it quickly in a sprint and release it. Then, weeks later they get feedback to add shipping details to the “My Orders” page.

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Sisense

JULY 2, 2020

Many modern businesses choose cloud warehouse services like Google BigQuery or Amazon Redshift to consolidate their data storage and analysis. These services offer the ability to store huge data volumes and process them quickly with massive parallel processing. However, some companies still prefer on-premise databases, not wanting to share their data to more cloud services than necessary.

Documentation 98

Documentation Data Warehouse Planning 98

Insight Software

JULY 2, 2020

The built-in reports that come with most ERP software packages are notoriously deficient from the standpoint of finance and accounting professionals. They often lack the key information that decision-makers need. Native reporting tools are difficult to use, require specialized expertise, and are often inaccessible to front-line finance and accounting personnel.

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ElegantJ BI

JULY 1, 2020

Smarten is pleased to announce SmartenApps, its newest addition to the Smarten augmented analytics suite of offerings. The Smarten: eCommerce Analytics for Shopify by Elegant MicroWeb is an augmented analytics and reporting solution integrated with Shopify eCommerce. With Smarten eCommerce Analytics for Shopify, users gain insight into data in a unique and meaningful way.

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Phocas

JUNE 30, 2020

Most professionals complain of spending too much time doing tactical and administration work and neglecting the value-add duties. In the finance team, there is growing interest from the rest of the organization to provide more business advice, so there is a pressing need to adopt digital tools to automate processes, so instead of number crunching it can focus more on strategic tasks.

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Sisense

JUNE 30, 2020

Blog. Everyone wants to get more out of their data, but how exactly to do that can leave you scratching your head. Our BI Best Practices demystify the analytics world and empower you with actionable how-to guidance. In a world increasingly dominated by data, users of all kinds are gathering, managing, visualizing, and analyzing data in a wide variety of ways.

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Thinslices

JULY 3, 2020

When I first started my career as a project manager, Agile & Scrum had completely different meanings for me and my peers, compared to what we know today. Everyone was focused on saving time or planning for improved time efficiency.

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ElegantJ BI

JUNE 29, 2020

Why Do I Need Self-Serve Data Preparation? Why would your business need Self-Serve Data Preparation? Perhaps you have a team that includes IT professionals that can prepare data for analysis or maybe you have a business analyst or a data scientist to serve that need. But, there are plenty of good reasons to consider data preparation tools that are easy enough for every team member to use.

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Phocas

JULY 2, 2020

As businesses reopen and customers resume spending, it’s more important than ever to have a full understanding of your stock. Having on hand what customers want today is crucial, but being able to anticipate what they will want or need in the coming months can be challenging to predict. Fortunately, by utilizing your business data, you can master inventory calculations to prepare for the future.

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Sisense

JUNE 30, 2020

Blog. Every company is a data company. In Embed to Win , we dig into the ways companies are evolving to include embedded analytics in their products as a market differentiator and revenue generator with stories from builders, product shots, and more. The power of data and analytics extends far beyond dashboards. Countless people within both big and small organizations benefit from insights gleaned from analytics platforms, but will never crack open a dashboard.

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Christian Steven

JULY 2, 2020

Microsoft Power BI is a functionally rich toolset that can satisfy all your business intelligence needs. Moreover, you can utilize various filters in Power BI to sort data and information based on your selected criteria. Filters can be very useful if you are processing a lot of data for your organization, and your users have varied needs and requirements.

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ElegantJ BI

JUNE 29, 2020

Why Do I Need Self-Serve Data Preparation? Why would your business need Self-Serve Data Preparation? Perhaps you have a team that includes IT professionals that can prepare data for analysis or maybe you have a business analyst or a data scientist to serve that need. But, there are plenty of good reasons to consider data preparation tools that are easy enough for every team member to use.

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Phocas

JUNE 30, 2020

Phocas has a new partnership with Single Source Systems (Single Source), a solution reseller for Infor CloudSuite. Together, the companies will educate Infor CloudSuite customers about Phocas business intelligence software to help them get the most from their data and maximize their investment in their Infor ERP systems. Phocas BI software integrates seamlessly with a variety of Infor solutions and is currently used by more than 100 Infor ERP customers.

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BA Experts

JULY 3, 2020

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Christian Steven

JUNE 30, 2020

The goal of a data analyst should be to arrange the insights of the data so that all users can decisively act on it. Power BI is a business analytics service from Microsoft that enables you to visualize and analyze data with efficiency. It is a powerful tool that you can use to connect to your data source and analyze all your data.

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ElegantJ BI

JUNE 29, 2020

Why Do I Need Self-Serve Data Preparation? Why would your business need Self-Serve Data Preparation? Perhaps you have a team that includes IT professionals that can prepare data for analysis or maybe you have a business analyst or a data scientist to serve that need. But, there are plenty of good reasons to consider data preparation tools that are easy enough for every team member to use.

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GlowTouch

JULY 2, 2020

Share this entry Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Pinterest Share on LinkedIn Share by Mail 20 Best Practices for Delivering Excellent Chat Support. The functionality of customer support technologies such as voice, email, and live chat must allow agents to respond in an appropriate, timely, and accurate manner. When responding to a live chat, agents must use the same personality, responsiveness, and accuracy as voice support, and respond with the depth of detail of email support.

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Domo

JUNE 30, 2020

In an age when there are so many channels consumers can and do use to communicate with and about the brands they invest in, organizations that are able to capture that information and act on it have the opportunity to better service their customers and, in turn, build a competitive advantage. That’s the message ESPN’s Douglas Kramon and Jennier Lien delivered during a recent “Get Leverage” webinar with Domo on the power of solutions that can gauge how a business’ products and services are being

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IRM Connects

JUNE 29, 2020

At first glance it may seem that project managers and business analysts have conflicting objectives with one focused on project delivery and the other on solution delivery. But by unlocking. The post Creating Synergies Between Business Analysts And Project Managers appeared first on IRM Connects, by IRM UK | IT Blog.

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Watermark Learning

JUNE 30, 2020

A post from the Watermark Learning Project Brief Blog. Studying for and passing a certification exam is challenging and anxiety-producing. I admit to feeling stressed each time and spending numerous hours preparing for my exams. It helped me in all cases to memorize key aspects of the underlying Body of Knowledge, which exams like CBAP, PMP, or PMI-PBA are based on.

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Domo

JUNE 29, 2020

Some situations we encounter in life are scarier than others. COVID-19 has been one of those situations for me. Over the course of a distressing, three-day period in April, eight family members tested positive for the coronavirus. They’re all fine now, but for about 72 hours, I was worried sick. In a perfect world, we could all ride this crisis out by simply pushing the pause button on the responsibilities we’re accustomed to dealing with.

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