Analyst Catalyst Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Cybersecurity 274

Cybersecurity Business Analysis Business Analysis 274

Smart Data Collective

OCTOBER 8, 2019

While sports analytics is hardly a new idea, how it is being used in hockey has changed dramatically. Coaches no longer have to wait for newspapers to print out statistics. Fans are not left to wonder how their favorite players are truly excelling. What has brought about this change? Big data. Big data has taken all forms of sports analytics by storm, but we are only now really beginning to see what it can do for hockey.

Big Data 216

Big Data 216

BizAcuity

OCTOBER 7, 2019

With the IT shift to cloud and business shift to cloud-based data platforms, there is a growing increase in migration projects, which aim at migrating applications and data from a corporate data centre to a cloud platform. The migration may be mandatory because of a merger or acquisition, in which data from another organization has to be migrated to a new or existing environment, or because a business segment has been sold, which requires migration to storage elsewhere.

Data Warehouse 162

Data Warehouse Planning Government Monitoring 162

ElegantJ BI

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Augmented Analytics Benefits Include NLP for Easy Analysis! Everyone has heard the term ‘natural language processing or NLP. So, what is natural language processing, exactly, and how can it help your business? NLP allows a program or software to understand language as written/spoken by humans so that people can interact with a system without using long strings of code.

Data Discovery 130

Data Discovery Data Analytics Data Analytics Visualization 130

Advertiser: ZoomInfo

Incorporating generative AI (gen AI) into your sales process can speed up your wins through improved efficiency, personalized customer interactions, and better informed decision- making. Gen AI is a game changer for busy salespeople and can reduce time-consuming tasks, such as customer research, note-taking, and writing emails, and provide insightful data analysis and recommendations.

Analyst Catalyst Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Business Analysis 195

Business Analysis Business Analysis 195

Smart Data Collective

OCTOBER 11, 2019

There are a lot of ways that organizations can leverage big data. Most of them don’t have difficulty collecting the data they need to make more informed decisions. However, they often struggle to conceptualize the data and present it in a format that supports their conclusions. This is one of the areas where a business dashboard can be useful. Big data has made business dashboards possible.

Big Data 202

Big Data Monitoring Visualization Data Automation 202

ElegantJ BI

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Augmented Analytics Benefits Include NLP for Easy Analysis! Everyone has heard the term ‘natural language processing or NLP. So, what is natural language processing, exactly, and how can it help your business? NLP allows a program or software to understand language as written/spoken by humans so that people can interact with a system without using long strings of code.

Data Discovery 130

Data Discovery Data Analytics Data Analytics Visualization 130

Analyst Catalyst Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Cybersecurity 195

Cybersecurity Business Analysis Business Analysis 195

Smart Data Collective

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Sinatra is a great web application library. It can be used to streamline development in Ruby and several other programming languages. A number of articles on Dzone have been written on using Sinatra to develop web applications and other solutions, but there didn’t appear to be an article on setting up Sinatra. We decided to provide a quick tutorial on this process.

170

170

BizAcuity

OCTOBER 7, 2019

With the IT shift to cloud and business shift to cloud-based data platforms, there is a growing increase in migration projects, which aim at migrating applications and data from a corporate data centre to a cloud platform. The migration may be mandatory because of a merger or acquisition, in which data from another organization has to be migrated to a new or existing environment, or because a business segment has been sold, which requires migration to storage elsewhere.

Data Warehouse 100

Data Warehouse Planning Government Monitoring 100

Advertiser: Paycor

The HR industry is changing. Did you know… 1. There will be 4M more jobs than workers by 2033 ( BLS ). 2. For 84% of workers, flexibility is a top priority ( FlexJobs ). 3. 75% of employees have used AI at work ( CFO.com ). It’s time to meet the moment! Use Paycor’s guide to design a blueprint for success.

ElegantJ BI

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Augmented Analytics Benefits Include NLP for Easy Analysis! Everyone has heard the term ‘natural language processing or NLP. So, what is natural language processing, exactly, and how can it help your business? NLP allows a program or software to understand language as written/spoken by humans so that people can interact with a system without using long strings of code.

Data Discovery 130

Data Discovery Data Analytics Data Analytics Visualization 130

Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Before You Start Prioritising …. Before you order the roadmap items, double-check that you have a validated product strategy in place. You should be able to confidently say why users would want to use your product and why it is worthwhile for your company to invest in it. In other words, you should have valid answers to the following questions: Which user problem will the product solve, or which benefit will it provide?

User Experience 89

User Experience 89

Userzoom

OCTOBER 10, 2019

When trying to understand customer behavior on your website, a true intent study can help you uncover your visitors’ intentions. This should help answer questions such as, “Why are they coming to the site?” and “What are they trying to do?” Web analytics solutions, such as Google Analytics, will provide statistics on web traffic including number of visitors, page views, bounce rates, where visitors are going etc, but does not answer the why question i.e., the purpos

Visualization 86

Visualization 86

Phocas

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Phocas is pleased to announce the appointment of Blair Cassidy as the Chief Product Officer (CPO). Cassidy brings more than 19 years of digital product experience to Phocas, most recently serving as the CPO for SLI Systems. Cassidy will lead the company’s efforts in developing innovations that build upon Phocas’ data analytics solutions and its success helping customers better leverage their business data.

Innovation 15

Innovation Data Analytics Data Analytics Digital 15

Advertisement

Explore our free guide to Valutico, the platform that revolutionizes automated report generation, offers access to 1 million M&A transactions, enables quick benchmarking, and streamlines the entire valuation process. With Valutico, you gain access to: 30-Minute Valuations: Rapidly producing accurate results. 3TB of Financial Data: The expansive data you need at your fingertips.

Juice Analytics

OCTOBER 7, 2019

With all the talk about Data Literacy (led by folks like @Ben Jones , @Jordan Morrow , @Valerie Logan ) and/or Data Fluency (?? @Dalton Ruer ), the time is right for a more rigorous methodology for understanding the audiences for data dialogue. Which got me thinking: What if there was a Myers Briggs -style personality type indicator for data personalities?

74

74

Forrester - Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 10, 2019

We’ve seen the promise of what enhanced data, analytics, and AI capabilities can do for businesses, but firms are struggling to truly maximize their impact. Data and analytics leaders want to shift into high gear, but many factors are holding them back. One of the key issues that everyone is facing is finding and developing […].

Data Analytics 71

Data Analytics Data Analytics Data Mining Big Data 71

Sisense

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Blog. Humans losing jobs to robots has been the preoccupation of economists and sci-fi writers alike for almost 100 years. AI systems are the next perceived threat to human jobs, but which jobs? Sourcing the logic from numerous open source packages or paid API services, connecting disparate datasets, and maintaining a pipeline are complex tasks that AIs are ill-suited to do at present.

Artificial Intelligence 71

Artificial Intelligence Data Warehouse Monitoring Business Intelligence 71

Phocas

OCTOBER 8, 2019

In today’s dynamic marketplace, modern CEOs must operate from a new playbook. Resilience and the ability to quickly adapt to mercurial customer demands is the name of the game. Consequently, the modern CEO must have the tools to maintain a competitive advantage.

68

68

Advertisement

ChatGPT has dominated boardroom conversations for months now. From drafting a stock trading program, to creating a SQL query to model data, there are practically no limits to the applications of the AI language model assistant. At ManageEngine, we have been working on our own AI-assistant, Zia. Zia is a fully-trained analytics assistant that can perform a range of functions such as creating and adding reports to dashboards, providing conversational support to data analysis, insight discovery, bu

Managed Agile

OCTOBER 8, 2019

This is an article on an Agile search engine optimization project I recently completed that illustrates how to apply Agile thinking to a non-software project. I’ve previously written other articles on applying Agile thinking and techniques to non-software projects (See Related Articles below). This is another article on an Agile Search Engine Optimization project I recently completed on this very website.

Agile 63

Agile Project Management User Experience 63

Data Pine

OCTOBER 10, 2019

If you want to convey crucial information to decision-makers in the easiest and most effective way possible, you need to embrace the power of interactive dashboards. A business dashboard offers at-a-glance insights based on key performance indicators (KPIs) and is an intuitive and visually pleasing way to consume data. Unlike early predecessors, they give presenters the ability to engage audiences with real-time data.

Retail 58

Retail Visualization Logistics Real-time Data 58

Sisense

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Blog. When “data engineer” first started becoming a vital role for tech companies, the world was a smaller, simpler place. Engineers were primarily concerned with handling data stored in Excel spreadsheets and on local machines. New tools were slowly introduced to deal with data as it grew in volume and complexity, but the overall landscape was largely unchanged until the rise of “The Cloud.

Data Warehouse 60

Data Warehouse Cloud Computing Digital Transformation Business Intelligence 60

Domo

OCTOBER 9, 2019

When it comes to software security and privacy concerns, Niall Browne and Ryan Taylor are two of the most plugged-in professionals you will find. Niall is the Chief Information Security Officer at Domo. Ryan is the company’s Chief Privacy & Data Protection Officer. As the adoption of digital technologies becomes more widespread, and talk of more regulatory oversight in the U.S. grows louder, I got their thoughts on a number of issues surrounding this increasingly important topic for all busi

Government 52

Government Cybersecurity Data Governance Data Management 52

Advertiser: ZoomInfo

In today’s ultra-competitive markets, it’s no longer enough to wait for buyers to show obvious signs of interest. Instead, sales teams must be proactive, identifying and acting on nuanced buyer behaviors — often before prospects are fully ready to make a purchase. In this eBook from ZoomInfo & Sell Better, learn 10 actionable ways to use these buyer signals to transform your sales strategy and close deals faster.

Project Initiation

Actian

OCTOBER 7, 2019

If you are still using point-to-point integrations to move data through your IT environment, then you are spending too much money and missing the opportunities a modern data hub can provide. A data hub is a centralized service that connects all of your IT systems, whether they be Web applications, IoT devices, SaaS solutions, or core business platforms, such as CRM or ERP.

Data Warehouse 10

Data Warehouse Government Data Governance Agile 10

Business Analyst Mentor

OCTOBER 11, 2019

Having control of your business analyst career path is even more important than it was several years ago to provide a basis for business analyst career growth that is meaningful.

49

49

Juice Analytics

OCTOBER 10, 2019

“Can’t we sprinkle in some pie charts just to change things up?” If you’re in the information design business, you’ve probably heard some version on this request. Variety is the spice of life, right? I say: Get your spice elsewhere. Your audience doesn’t have interest in learning a bunch of different charts — and carrying an unnecessary cognitive load.

Visualization 49

Visualization Data Visualization 49

EBG Consulting

OCTOBER 10, 2019

I recently had the pleasure of being part of the “Women in Agile” podcast ( available here ). In the podcast, I discuss infusing product management with agile principles and practices. Leslie Morse , the podcast interviewer, summarized the highlights of our conversation as follows: “Ellen speculates a future where there will be a “blending of disciplines where you don’t necessarily have a business area and a technology area”, just one product team with interdisciplinary team members.

Agile 48

Agile Product Management Product Management 48

Advertiser: Paycor

In today’s fast-paced business world, effective workforce management (WFM) isn’t just an option—it’s a necessity.

Agile Velocity

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Culture is listed in many surveys as one of the biggest barriers organizations have in adopting Agile frameworks. While it is true that culture can be a blocker for change, culture can also be used to help accelerate adoption and transformation. Being able to identify and understand how culture is used at your organization is an important first step in any Agile framework adoption.

Agile 48

Agile Innovation 48

Phocas

OCTOBER 10, 2019

ConvaTec is a global medical products and technologies company with innovations that advance wound care, stoma care, continence and critical care. ConvaTec deployed Phocas in 2015, and the following year, the company’s 30-plus sales team achieved record sales. The success was attributed to better visibility of their data and the ability to use data to support pricing decisions.

Innovation 8

Innovation Finance 8

QAT Global

OCTOBER 8, 2019

The Six Best Ways to Improve Business Agility One of the top phrases on the tip of most business leader’s tongue today is business agility. Everyday business has changed, and now it is imperative to create an agile environment where your organization can adapt and anticipate change; then respond accordingly as quickly and efficiently as possible. This is no easy task, [.].

Agile 40

Agile 40

The BA Doc

OCTOBER 7, 2019

If you have been involved in any organizational change initiative, you’ve probably heard someone complain about how estimates are a waste of time because they are never accurate, right? This is because estimation is much.

40

40

Advertiser: MoEngage

Use data to turn one-off holiday shoppers into repeat buyers and effortlessly drive more sales throughout the year. Our guide will give you an in-depth understanding of what triggers your customers to buy and breaks down campaign examples from leading B2C brands.