Sat.Sep 14, 2019 - Fri.Sep 20, 2019

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Big Data Paves The Road For A New Generation Of Investing Apps

Smart Data Collective

Big data is changing the financial industry in a truly astounding way. Countless financial professionals are looking towards machine learning and other new tools to improve the quality of the services that they offer to their customers. K. Hussain of Atos Spain published a white paper on the growing relevance of big data in the finance and insurance verticals.

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Elevate the Digital Transformation Debate!

Timo Elliott

I hope you can join us for the Elevate conference in lovely Toronto! I’ll be doing a keynote as part of the Digital Transformation track on Monday October 23rd, talking about how the latest technologies are transforming the way the world works. For more details, take a look at my quick overview video — it’s literally an “elevator pitch” the Elevate event!

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How to choose the best dashboard tool for your business

BizAcuity

A BI dashboard — or business intelligence dashboard — is an information management tool that uses data visualization to display KPIs (key performance indicators) tracked by a business to assess various aspects of performance. They aim at simplifying huge amounts of data, into simpler insights that can been easily understood and used. The purpose of any BI dashboard is to help business users make better-informed decisions by letting them gather, consolidate and analyse their data.

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KPI Software Helps You Manage with Insight!

ElegantJ BI

KPI Tools Provide Accurate and Clear Metrics and Measurements! If your business is like most, you are trying to focus on the facts! You want to measure results and make plans, using the facts rather than opinion or guesswork but that can be difficult. Key performance indicators (KPIs) allow you to establish and monitor metrics and measurements that will tell you whether activities, tasks, and processes are getting you to your goals and helping you to meet your objectives.

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Reduce Bias in Hiring: Structured Interview Questions for Employers

Structured interview questions are a valuable tool for reducing bias in hiring. They help: Ensure all candidates are asked the same questions in the same way Level the playing field so all candidates have a fair chance of being successful Improve credibility, reliability, and validity Download the guide to get the most out of your interview questions!

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Machine Learning Is The Latest Stage Of Text To Speech Technology

Smart Data Collective

Machine learning has played a very important role in the development of technology that has a large impact on our everyday lives. However, machine learning is also influencing the direction of technology that is not as commonplace. Text to speech technology is a prime example. Text to speech technology predates machine learning by over a century. However, machine learning has made the technology more reliable than ever.

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How to Choose Between Cloud-Based and On-premise Solutions

BizAcuity

Today, businesses run on huge amounts of data. Data is the backbone of most business decisions and hence data storage and management is a huge question. Businesses today have many choices when it comes to data storage. The obvious choice is to rely on traditional, time-tested legacy and on premise applications and software to do business. The other emerging option is to use the cloud to host your data as against just keeping everything within your own network.

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KPI Software Helps You Manage with Insight!

ElegantJ BI

KPI Tools Provide Accurate and Clear Metrics and Measurements! If your business is like most, you are trying to focus on the facts! You want to measure results and make plans, using the facts rather than opinion or guesswork but that can be difficult. Key performance indicators (KPIs) allow you to establish and monitor metrics and measurements that will tell you whether activities, tasks, and processes are getting you to your goals and helping you to meet your objectives.

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How Up-And-Coming Music Companies Use Big Data For Optimal Results

Smart Data Collective

Big data has brought major changes to countless industries. Healthcare, finance, criminal justice, and manufacturing have all been touched by advances in big data. However, big data is also transforming other industries. The music industry is relying more on big data than ever. Darren Heitner wrote a great article on Inc. About the way that big data is revolutionizing the industry.

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Using Project Connections in SSIS

Tim Mitchell

In SQL Server Integration Services, connection managers are used as gateways for most any external read and write operation. Connection managers are type- and format-specific, and in the case of relational database connection managers, they are usually specific to vendor (Oracle, DB2, etc.) as well. In most use cases, the same connection will be used across multiple packages in the.

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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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3 Major Trends Transforming the Agile Method in 2019 | Analyst Catalyst Blog

Analyst Catalyst Blog

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KPI Software Helps You Manage with Insight!

ElegantJ BI

KPI Tools Provide Accurate and Clear Metrics and Measurements! If your business is like most, you are trying to focus on the facts! You want to measure results and make plans, using the facts rather than opinion or guesswork but that can be difficult. Key performance indicators (KPIs) allow you to establish and monitor metrics and measurements that will tell you whether activities, tasks, and processes are getting you to your goals and helping you to meet your objectives.

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AI Paves The Road For Incredible Changes In The Gaming Industry

Smart Data Collective

I recently read a great post from The Verge on the impact of AI on the video gaming industry. Author Nick Statt made a great point about the evolution of AI in the industry. Pratt pointed out that AI has been a factor in the video game industry since the very beginning. Some of the AI tools that we see today resemble those in the 1980 game Rogue. Of course, AI has improved dramatically over the last 40 years.

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Agile Culture Isn’t the Problem

Leading Agile

Let’s assume you could flip the mindset of your organization overnight. What would you do next to ensure that you could predictably deliver product into the market, faster? If you don’t have an answer, perhaps it’s time to consider that culture isn’t the problem. Video Transcript. We all show up and we go, we want to change culture, right?

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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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Agile Practices in Reality | Analyst Catalyst Blog

Analyst Catalyst Blog

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Is Advanced Data Discovery Suitable for Business Users?

ElegantJ BI

Is Augmented Data Discovery Easy Enough for My Business Users? A data discovery tool is a crucial tool for every business user in your organization. With so many sources of data, in so many locations with your enterprise, it is impossible for users to know whether they have access to complete, accurate data to make decisions. With the right Advanced Analytics Tools , business users can have access to data integrated from disparate data sources and can use that date for Advanced Data Discovery

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5 Benefits Of Machine Learning In Enterprise Electrical Systems

Smart Data Collective

Machine learning is creating pivotal change in the energy industry. Towards Data Science wrote about the changes that machine learning is bringing to this field. They pointed out that Bill Gates wrote a letter in 2017 to graduate students across the country, which stated that machine learning is going to be the biggest disruptor in this industry. You need to consider the benefits of using an electrical system that relies on machine learning technology.

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4 tips to get the most value from your ERP system

Phocas

While ERP systems support a wide variety of administrative and operational processes, many aren’t designed for the untrained user. Instead, enterprise systems are often managed by the IT department. Additionally, the reporting capabilities of ERPs is limited. An ERP can’t perform the deep-dive analysis that leads to actionable intelligence. A complementary business intelligence (BI) solution that converts raw data into easy-to-understand information ensures everyone in the business can harness t

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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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The Value of Chat: The Preferred Channel by Customers, Exceptional ROI for Companies

GlowTouch

Share this entry Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Pinterest Share on LinkedIn Share by Mail The Value of Chat. The Preferred Channel by Customers, Exceptional ROI for Companies. We wanted to provide a simple approach that explains the value of chat to customers and companies. The good news is that it is great for both. Clearly, chat is the preferred channel for customers, because it’s quick and easy.

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Is Advanced Data Discovery Suitable for Business Users?

ElegantJ BI

Is Augmented Data Discovery Easy Enough for My Business Users? A data discovery tool is a crucial tool for every business user in your organization. With so many sources of data, in so many locations with your enterprise, it is impossible for users to know whether they have access to complete, accurate data to make decisions. With the right Advanced Analytics Tools , business users can have access to data integrated from disparate data sources and can use that date for Advanced Data Discovery

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Important Rotary Joint Selection Strategies In The IoT Era

Smart Data Collective

Big data is changing the nature of mechanical systems in every way imagineable. This means that you need to consider the implications of big data when choosing mechanical components for various systems. Rotary joints are a prime example. How Rotary Joints Impact the Trasnmission of Data. A rotary joint is a device utilized to transfer (pressurized or under vacuum) fluid from a passage supply to a rotating outlet providing a mechanical sealing to the system.

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What the All-Blacks can teach us about making decisions under pressure?

Phocas

Most people feel pressure. The heart races, the body heats up, and you lose your train of thought. You feel pressure when you’re put on the spot in a meeting or playing the final hole in golf - when you are one stroke ahead. In both situations, we often panic and can’t think straight. However, we can harness these feelings effectively if we follow the Red-Blue model created by Dr Ceri Evans.

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The HR Leader’s Survival Guide

HR leaders drowning in paperwork struggle to meet C-suite's strategic expectations. Burnout and high turnover plague the field, with 95% feeling overwhelmed. This guide explores how the right tools can free HR from admin tasks and empower them to become the strategic leaders they’re meant to be.

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Answering Complex Usage Questions with Product Analytics

Sisense

Blog. Measuring engagement with a business product is difficult. Users often spend hours per day in a business tool where complex workflows make interpreting user intent through clickstreams difficult – and worse, typical engagement metrics like time-on-site, page loads or object creation counts generally just describe usage, not created value.

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Is Advanced Data Discovery Suitable for Business Users?

ElegantJ BI

Is Augmented Data Discovery Easy Enough for My Business Users? A data discovery tool is a crucial tool for every business user in your organization. With so many sources of data, in so many locations with your enterprise, it is impossible for users to know whether they have access to complete, accurate data to make decisions. With the right Advanced Analytics Tools , business users can have access to data integrated from disparate data sources and can use that date for Advanced Data Discovery

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Why Local SEO Strategies Require AI Technology – Here’s Why

Smart Data Collective

AI barely played a role in the beginning of online search engines. The earliest search engines accepted payments from companies that wanted to be at the top of the listings. However, AI is becoming more important than ever. Google is using AI to assign SERPs more than ever. Savvy SEO strategists are also using AI too. AI is also important in local SEO, because businesses need to know how to automate essential functions and identify approaches that get the best results.

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Inaccessible

Perceptual Edge

In our efforts to make knowledge accessible to everyone, if we’re not careful, good intentions can cause us to blunder into useless attempts that benefit no one. I was painfully reminded of this recently when I received a request from a university for an electronic version of my book Show Me the Numbers to accommodate the needs of a student who is blind.

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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.