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Cybersecurity is a Critical Business Decision | Analyst Catalyst Blog

Analyst Catalyst Blog

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Big Data In Hockey Takes The Sport By Storm

Smart Data Collective

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.

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Migration Projects-How to Choose Between Onsite & Offshore

BizAcuity

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.

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NLP and Augmented Analytics: A Recipe for Success!

ElegantJ BI

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.

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The HR Leader’s Workforce Management Guide

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

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Building Business Capability Conference Countdown | Analyst Catalyst Blog

Analyst Catalyst Blog

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Migration Projects-How to Choose Between Onsite & Offshore

BizAcuity

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.

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NLP and Augmented Analytics: A Recipe for Success!

ElegantJ BI

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.

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Cybersecurity is a Critical Business Decision | Analyst Catalyst Blog

Analyst Catalyst Blog

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Integrating Sinatra Into Ruby To Expedite Application Development

Smart Data Collective

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.

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Business Valuation Software: Free Guide to Valutico Platform

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.

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Migration Projects-How to Choose Between Onsite & Offshore

BizAcuity

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.

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NLP and Augmented Analytics: A Recipe for Success!

ElegantJ BI

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.

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Product Roadmap Prioritisation

Roman Pichler

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?

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The importance of knowing user intent when conducting behavior analysis

Userzoom

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

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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Phocas appoints new Chief Product Officer

Phocas

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.

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Toward a Data Personality Framework

Juice Analytics

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?

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Data Strategy & Insights 2019: Solving The Human Skills Problem

Forrester - Business Intelligence

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 […].

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Will AI Assist Data Engineers or Replace Them?

Sisense

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.

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Maximize Productivity and Simplify IT Management with Conversational AI

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

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KPIs for the resilient mid-market CEO

Phocas

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.

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Agile Search Engine Optimization

Managed Agile

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.

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How To Make Stunning Dashboards & Take Your Decision Making To The Next Level

Data Pine

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.

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Data Engineering Today: All About the Cloud

Sisense

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.

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Why (and How) to Switch to a New HR & Payroll Platform

Speaker: Speakers:

HR and payroll impact every aspect of your business. Choosing the right provider is one of the most important decisions you’ll make. Before you decide, hear first-hand customer accounts in Paycor’s webinar to learn: The three most important things to look for when switching. How to begin your search. What are some of the red flags?

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What Large Orgs Can Learn from Domo’s Security Experts

Domo

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

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What Is a Data Hub and Why Should You Care?

Actian

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.

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Building an Enjoyable Business Analyst Career Path using the Career Strategy Framework in 2020

Business Analyst Mentor

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.

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Teach Once, Use Often

Juice Analytics

“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.

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Data-Backed Secrets for Minimizing Discounts & Maximizing ROI Post-Holiday

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.