Smart Data Collective

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Two or three decades ago, gathering data was the biggest challenge businesses faced. Leaders craved more information and access. Today, these same companies are drowning in data. The challenge of today is organizing and making sense of the data. 4 Tips to Help You Make Sense of Your Data. With so much emphasis on collecting and accessing data, it’s easy to become so paralyzed by information that you fail to do anything with it.

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Simplilearn

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Today, project management is at the core of nearly every business initiative. It is a means of achieving a strategic objective and is the key to organizational success. As the economy and the enterprise landscape become more competitive and chaotic than ever, effective project management is necessary for businesses to perform better, faster, and mo.

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Analyst Catalyst Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

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BA Squared

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Note: This blog post is an update to a previous blog post Five High-Impact Questions Every BA Should Be Using. It’s been updated to address how we are working right now. The Current Situation. Let’s face it, we are under so much deadline pressure that it seems like we don’t have time to ask thought-provoking questions, model, or even think about the problem we are actually trying to solve.

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Smart Data Collective

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

The concept of cryptocurrency is still foreign to so many in the United States and around the world. There is a lot more mass appeal of cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, Litecoin, and others. Generally speaking, though, they are still mysterious in the eyes of the common individual. In the cryptocurrency market, we are starting to see the emergency and convergence of crypto and big data analytics.

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BA Times

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

If I had a dollar for every time I heard somebody complain about how business analysis just isn’t understood in their organization, I’d probably be very rich indeed.

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Forrester - Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

The perception of legacy enterprise business intelligence (BI) platforms comes with some legitimate stigma and baggage. It’s technology first, not business-led; the graphical user interface (GUI)-based user experience (UX) doesn’t address ease of use for all business decision-makers; there are too many underutilized reports and dashboards floating around in the enterprise; and signals produced by […].

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Smart Data Collective

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Google’s first page is pretty much the promised land for all web-pages. And, why shouldn’t it be? Sure, it takes effort and time to get there. But, once you’re there the traffic basically takes care of itself. You only need a fraction of all the effort you put in earlier to stay there. Unfortunately, climbing the SERP ladder is easier said than done.

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Leading Agile

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

New Paper Improving Enterprise-Level Predictability With Agile Get it Now. We typically think of Agility as being nearly synonymous with adaptability, and that a change in mindset or culture to become more adaptable is the right place to begin Agile Transformation. But the truth is that one of the most common goals organizations have for Transformation is actually predictability.

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Analyst Catalyst Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

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ElegantJ BI

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Self Service Data Preparation Takes the Complexity Out of Data Prep! When asked about using an analytical solution to find and use data and make decisions, many business users feel insecure about the process required to get to the results. Data preparation has traditionally been the domain of a data scientist, a business analyst or an IT professional.

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Smart Data Collective

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

We learn something new about the COVID-19 pandemic every day. This is a credit to brilliant scientists, epidemiologists, and public health experts around the world, but these professionals wouldn’t be able to do their jobs without big data systems. In fact, big data systems, which have already proven to be the most significant intervention in 21st century healthcare , represent our greatest hope of driving back COVID-19 infections and quickly developing an effective vaccine.

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BA Times

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

“Learning from the Best” is a series where I share lessons from some of the best mentors, coaches, and role models I’ve learned from. I hope you will find them inspiring too.

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Analyst Catalyst Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

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ElegantJ BI

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Self Service Data Preparation Takes the Complexity Out of Data Prep! When asked about using an analytical solution to find and use data and make decisions, many business users feel insecure about the process required to get to the results. Data preparation has traditionally been the domain of a data scientist, a business analyst or an IT professional.

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Smart Data Collective

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

The market for data warehouses is booming. One study forecasts that the market will be worth $23.8 billion by 2030. Demand is growing at an annual pace of 29%. While there is a lot of discussion about the merits of data warehouses, not enough discussion centers around data lakes. We talked about enterprise data warehouses in the past, so let’s contrast them with data lakes.

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Pestle Analysis

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Think of decision analysis as a systemic, quantitative, and graphic approach to assess situations that enables efficient ways of solving problems in business.

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Techwell

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Absent an effective requirements baseline it is difficult to distinguish clarifications and error correction from enhancements and changes to the original ask.

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ElegantJ BI

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Self Service Data Preparation Takes the Complexity Out of Data Prep! When asked about using an analytical solution to find and use data and make decisions, many business users feel insecure about the process required to get to the results. Data preparation has traditionally been the domain of a data scientist, a business analyst or an IT professional.

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Smart Data Collective

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

If you’ve never been aware of big data in the firearms industry, you’re in for a treat. Statistics over time have proven that the firearms industry does exceptionally well under two conditions: right before a presidential election and during a national crisis. Currently, the U.S. is facing both of these conditions at once. This means it’s a good time to go into business in the firearms industry.

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Think Agile

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Discovering product development excellence. Join us to learn how to improve your product agility by defining and refining backlog items that are “ready” to pull into planning and development. My background is in Process Engineering and Business Analysis. I worked in Agile(ish) teams for a few years and became a Product Owner for a Large Financial Institution in 2012.

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Agilemania

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

I often receive a question from people asking - WHY one should attend a PSM training when it is not mandatory for taking the certification? The post 5 Reasons Why You Should Consider Scrum Master Training appeared first on Agilemania.

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BA Coach

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

The knowledge area Business Analysis Planning and Monitoring of the business analysis framework focuses on preparing and monitoring the execution of business analysis work. All outputs that are produced within this knowledge area are used by other knowledge areas, and therefore Business Analysis Planning and Monitoring is often seen as a first step in the framework.

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Smart Data Collective

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Cybercrime, particularly in the financial sector, not only cost the world economy $2.7 billion in 2018, but it also is one of the most feared threats to national security in the United States, with more than 164 million personal records getting exposed in 2019, alone. . The list of different types of cyber attacks grows as rapidly as other parts of the technology and ecommerce sectors , and with constant evolution there is no set way to protect against them today that you can ensure will still b

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Phocas

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Savona, an independent British food distributor, wanted a BI tool that reviews sales information includes human resources data and brings together online and offline orders into one version of the truth. The team also plans to use the functionality in Phocas for the management of daily exception reporting to send to users rather than having it recreated in the ERP system.

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The BAWorld

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Business Capability analysis is conducted to assess the enterprise capabilities for various purposes. In this post, I am going to simplify the concept of Business capability analysis. Note: It is one of the BABOK techniques and an important one for CBAP and CCBA aspirants. What is a business capability? Measure of the ability of an entity (department, organization, person, system) to achieve its objectives, especially in relation to its overall mission.

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Sisense

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Blog. As datasets become bigger and more complex, only AI, materialized views, and more sophisticated coding languages will be able to glean insights from them. In Next-Level Moves , we dig into the ways advanced analytics are paving the way for the next wave of innovation. A data scientist must be skilled in many arts: math and statistics, computer science, and domain knowledge.

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Forrester - Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

What exactly is an "insight"? Analyst Brandon Purcell previews Forrester's new Periodic Table of Insights which will be unveiled at the upcoming Data Strategy & Insights live virtual event.

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Phocas

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Financial decision making is a vital management skill because it drives performance and allows a business to take calculated risks and grow. Financial decisions revolve around two key considerations: how and when to borrow money and how and when to spend it. Traditionally, managers have extracted numbers from financial statements and put them into formula-filled spreadsheets for finding key inputs.

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Modern Analyst

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

You might think that Spider-Man is a fictitional superhero living only in coming books or on the big screen. You might be right! But what if? What if Spider-Man is out there trying to decided where to move next, where to take his crime-fighting super-skills? Well, Sean Smith, a business analyst, wondered just that.

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