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Data Gravity and Cloud Computing

The Data Administration Newsletter

Cloud computing is growing rapidly as a deployment platform for IT infrastructure because it can offer significant benefits. But cloud computing is not always the answer, nor will it replace all of our on-prem computing systems anytime soon—no matter what the pundits are saying. It is true, though, that moving some types of workload into […].

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IT Spending: The Value-Driven Approach

Dataversity

Click to learn more about author Sachin Reja. Advances in information technology (IT) are forcing businesses in all industries to evaluate their IT spend. The impetus here is to reduce staffing costs and other expenditures while investing more in digital tools and programing. With the landscape of IT evolving and with more platforms being utilized […].

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Top 10 Machine Learning (ML) Algorithms You Should Know in 2021 | Simplilearn

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In a world where nearly all manual tasks are being automated, the definition of manual is changing. Machine Learning algorithms can help computers play chess, perform surgeries, and get smarter and more personal. We are living in an era of constant technological progress, and looking at how computing has advanced over the years, we can predict what.

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Mini Guide to Utilizing Data Analytics in Email Marketing

Smart Data Collective

Data analytics has been a very important aspect of modern marketing strategies. A growing number of companies are using data analytics to reach customers through virtually every channel, including email. Digital marketing is getting more competitive with each passing day, but small businesses can still rely on a time-tested channel: email marketing.

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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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COVID-19 sped up digital transformation but business analysis can help

Analyst Catalyst Blog

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How to Become a Growth Hacking Warrior in 30 days? | Simplilearn

Simplilearn

What if I tell you that 30 days from now you’ll master the fine art of growth hacking without spending a dime? Well, you can! I’ve put together the best information ever published about the topic in one place, and if you take the time to read it and start to implement it in your business, you’ll see a dramatic growth in your traffic, conversi. Read More.

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Contrasting the Different Data Encryption Techniques for Optimal Security

Smart Data Collective

Encryption is one of the many foundations of our digital economy. It has found its way into a significant portion of industries in the 21st Century. Many technologies now depend on good encryption algorithms to work well and promote data security. This is one of the many reasons that you need to understand how secure encryption works and how you can make it work for yourself.

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Being Data-Driven Means Embracing Data Quality and Consistency Through Data Governance

Dataversity

Click to learn more about author Terence Siganakis. Organizations are constantly coming to us wanting help in becoming more “data-driven.” They want to improve their decision making, shifting the process to be more quantitative and less based on gut and experience. This is a worthy goal but is a little more complex than just putting dashboards […].

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My Certification Journey – Avoiding a CBAPtism by Fire.

BA Times

Industry Certification has always been one of my career goals. Ever since being first introduced to Business Analysis, the discussion of being certified by the most recognized industry body in this field, the IIBA, has been a consistent topic.

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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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Time to Learn AI | Simplilearn

Simplilearn

Alfred Lord Tennyson wrote, “’ Tis better to have learned AI and lost than never to have learned AI at all.” OK. He didn’t write that. But were he alive today, he would because if you don’t learn AI or artificial intelligence, whether you’re a computer programmer or a full stack developer, you risk having your skill set become obsolete. Read More.

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6 Key Data Analytics Metrics Website to Track for 2021

Smart Data Collective

Data analytics have led to a number of major changes in the field of website management and digital marketing. Although data analytics tools have offered a number of opportunities and benefits for business owners relying on their websites to reach new audiences, many of them don’t know how to use them effectively. Every interaction on a website tells a story.

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Shadow IT: Not a Problem or Worse Than Ever?

Dataversity

Click to learn more about author Jay Chapel. Shadow IT: you’ve probably heard of it. Also known as Stealth IT, this refers to information technology (IT) systems built and used within organizations without explicit organizational approval or deployed by departments other than the IT department. A recent survey of IT decision makers ranked Shadow IT as the lowest […].

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Business Analysis is Changing

Analyst Catalyst Blog

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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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Webinar Wrap-up: Edge Computing Vs. Cloud Computing | Simplilearn

Simplilearn

Companies big and small are continually moving their applications to the cloud. More than 28 percent of an organization’s total IT budget is now kept aside for cloud computing. Today, 70 percent of organizations have at least one application in the cloud, indicating that enterprises are realizing the benefits of cloud computing and slowly adaptin. Read More.

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Data Analytics Helps Assess the Global Pandemic’s Impact on Marketing

Smart Data Collective

Big data technology has become pivotal to the evolution of modern marketing. A lot of marketing strategies have evolved in response to new insights that were made available with data analytics. One of the benefits of big data technology is that it can help us see the impact of the pandemic. Early last year, My Customer made some great observations about the role of analytics in tracking customer trends.

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Article: Culture & Methods Trends Report March 2021

InfoQ Articles

The most significant impact on culture and methods in 2021 is the disruption caused by COVID-19. We see what's needed for good remote and the impact of bad remote bad, how management practices are evolving and the importance of people skills for technologists. Paying attention to ethical issues, diversity and inclusion, tech for good, employee experience and psychological safety are important.

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Forget the Titles. Follow Your Passion

Analyst Catalyst Blog

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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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12 Great CISSP Books and Study Guides for the CISSP Certification | Simplilearn

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So you’ve decided to pursue a career in IT Security and are looking to get CISSP certified. Maybe you’re excited at the prospect of designing winning IT security architectures. Maybe you’re just looking to up-skill and improve your resume? Or maybe you’re drawn by the high-paying jobs offered to certified CISSP professionals (las. Read More.

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Think Big – Applying Analytics to Injury Claims Is the Next Challenge for Law Firms

Smart Data Collective

The legal sector is still in its infancy when it comes to big data and analytics. Lawyers and law experts are trying to figure it out, and consternation continues to shadow some corners because not everyone can quite understand what analytics is and how it can improve the personal injury law industry. Are they still legal experts if they use a computer?

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Article: Serverless Functions for Microservices? Probably Yes, but Stay Flexible to Change

InfoQ Articles

When designing cloud-native systems, it is important to accommodate freedom to change deployment strategy, from FaaS to containers or VMs, for potentially significant savings on cloud bills. By Enrico Piccinin.

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6 Differences Between Data Exploration and Data Presentation

Juice Analytics

Let’s start by defining our terms: Data exploration means the deep-dive analysis of data in search of new insights. Data presentation means the delivery of data insights to an audience in a form that makes clear the implications. Your toolbox for data exploration tools is flush with technology solutions such as Tableau, PowerBI, Looker, and Qlik. "Visual analytics" tools give analysts a super-powered version of Excel for dicing data to facilitate the search for valuable insights.

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

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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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Everything You Need to know About What is Six Sigma | Simplilearn

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Digital transformation has become the hottest buzzword of this decade. New technologies and tools are supporting the transformation journey of companies big and small as they compete to get a bigger slice of business in a fast-paced competitive environment. Yet, is it enough to smooth a company's transformative process? Can a standalone techno. Read More.

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How AI is Transforming Cybersecurity in 2021?

Smart Data Collective

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is one of the main weapons by which companies or medium-sized corporations can combat numerous cyber threats successfully. According to Warren Buffet , “ Cyber-attack is the biggest threat to mankind, even more of a bigger threat than the nuclear weapon. ” Therefore, organizations should consider applying the concepts of AI within their workplaces if they want to prosper in the future without compromising their digital anonymity.

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The Prime Directive

Growing Agile

“Regardless of what we discover, we understand and truly believe that everyone did the best job they could, given what they knew at the time, their skills and abilities, the resources available, and the situation at hand.” –Norm Kerth, Project Retrospectives: A Handbook for Team Review. I learnt of the Prime Directive a few years ago, when I started exploring retrospectives and what makes them so valuable.

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Strategic Coherence – You Can’t Hope Your Way to Strategic Alignment

Leading Agile

Effective strategy execution isn’t (just) about alignment, however, cascading goals through common frameworks like OKRs to create alignment to the strategic priorities is the first step towards effective strategy execution. The question for many leaders that have a clearly articulated and well-designed strategy (not just buzz words and wishful thinking), is why their teams seem to struggle to execute that strategy and deliver on the objectives.

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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.