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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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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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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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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Analyst Catalyst Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

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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

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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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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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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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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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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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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Analyst Catalyst Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

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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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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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ElegantJ BI

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

What is Social BI and How Can It Benefit My Business and Users? Every business has heard and read about business intelligence and the benefits of building a base of intelligence from which to drive your business results and make fact-based decisions. One of the benefits that is often overlooked is the aspect of Social BI. When a business chooses a BI tool that encourages social BI, it further promotes user adoption, data democratization and data literacy.

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Analyst Catalyst Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

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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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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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ElegantJ BI

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

What is Social BI and How Can It Benefit My Business and Users? Every business has heard and read about business intelligence and the benefits of building a base of intelligence from which to drive your business results and make fact-based decisions. One of the benefits that is often overlooked is the aspect of Social BI. When a business chooses a BI tool that encourages social BI, it further promotes user adoption, data democratization and data literacy.

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Analyst Catalyst Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

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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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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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ElegantJ BI

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

What is Social BI and How Can It Benefit My Business and Users? Every business has heard and read about business intelligence and the benefits of building a base of intelligence from which to drive your business results and make fact-based decisions. One of the benefits that is often overlooked is the aspect of Social BI. When a business chooses a BI tool that encourages social BI, it further promotes user adoption, data democratization and data literacy.

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