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The Art and Science of FP&A Storytelling

Timo Elliott

I recently participated in a web seminar on the Art and Science of FP&A Storytelling, hosted by the founder and CEO of FP&A Research Larysa Melnychuk along with other guests Pasquale della Puca , part of the global finance team at Beckman Coulter and Angelica Ancira , Global Digital Planning Lead at PepsiCo. With advanced analytics, flexible dashboarding and effective data visualization, FP&A storytelling has become both an art and science.

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Four Ways Great BAs Can Start The New Year Right!

BA Squared

Review, Renew, and Reconnect in 2021! Don’t let the new year sneak up on you. Now is the perfect time to follow these four simple ways to start the new year off right, and take charge of what you are getting out of your career and life. Take some time to plan your year! I know this sounds funny, but just like product and project planning, we need to have a vision and intention for the year.

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What is Data Scrubbing: A Beginner's Guide To Cleaning Data The Right Way | Simplilearn

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It should come as no surprise that data isn’t perfect. Just like everything else in life, digital data is subject to human error, inconsistencies, redundancies, spelling mistakes, and incomplete information. Since so much of our life and work now resides in databases, it’s more important than ever to make sure that data is as close to perfect a. Read More.

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How the Internet of Things and AI will Transform Sports Business?

Smart Data Collective

If there’s one industry that had previously remained fairly untouched from the technological advancements, it is the sports domain. However, over time the sector is getting introduced with several new generation technologies intended to make it efficient and smart. We have recently seen a number of technological developments that have impacted sports.

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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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Data Storage Will Be Critical in Digital Transformation and Defeating Cyber Threats in 2021

Dataversity

Click to learn more about author Jon Toor. A 2020 survey of senior IT decision-makers and IT security professionals found that 84 percent of respondents’ organizations have accelerated their digital transformation efforts as a direct result ofCOVID-19. Having a modern storage infrastructure is key to these efforts, one that is optimized for a hybrid cloud […].

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3 Ways Big Data Can Influence Decision-Making for Organizations | Simplilearn

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A recent study found that we create almost 2.5 quintillion bytes of data each day. Enterprises today have access to different kinds of data collected from various customer touchpoints, including websites, business apps, social media pages, mobile devices, blogs, documents, archives, and more. However, just gathering data isn’t enough to create a. Read More.

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Understanding The Phenomenal Impact of Social Data on B2B Funnels

Smart Data Collective

We recently talked about the benefits of using big data in marketing. We even discussed some tools that leverage big data to get more value out of marketing strategies. For B2B sales and marketing teams, few metaphors are as powerful as the sales funnel. It’s a near-supernatural, multi-layered vortex that pulls in leads from the wider world, then draws them down toward closing.

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2021: Embracing Proactive Analytics for Unstructured Data

Dataversity

Click to learn more about author Martin Hansknecht. While technological advancements will be numerous in 2021, our prediction for revolutionary transformations is twofold: (I) industries will begin to mass-adopt internal, unstructured analytics, and (II) enterprises will prioritize bridging governance with analytics via in-place solutions. Nineteenth century English novelist Mary Ann Evans, pen name George Eliot, […].

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How to optimise resources in matrix organizations?

BA Times

Matrix organizations have prevailed for decades, predominantly in multi-project environments.

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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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Top 5 Python Libraries For Data Science | Simplilearn

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Python is the most widely used programming language today. When it comes to solving data science tasks and challenges, Python never ceases to surprise its users. Most data scientists are already leveraging the power of Python programming every day. Python is an easy-to-learn, easy-to-debug, widely used, object-oriented, open-source, high-performanc.

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Data Governance is Vital to the Future of a World Ruled by Artificial Intelligence

Smart Data Collective

Artificial intelligence has been a huge revolutionary advance for modern consumers and businesses. It has led to some of the most important and pressing discoveries. The market was worth $39.9 billion in 2019 and is growing at a pace of 42% a year between 2020 and 2027. However, there are a few fundamental things that we need to understand to make it work for us.

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Using Data Technology to Profitability Serve the Unbanked

Dataversity

Click to learn more about author Stuart Tarmy. Globally, some 1.7 billion people are unbanked, with the World Bank estimating the largest number — about 225 million — are in China, followed by India with about 190 million. Other countries with a greater percentage of unbanked citizens include Indonesia, Pakistan, Nigeria, Mexico, and Bangladesh. Even in the U.S., […].

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BA Jobseeking tips. Acing The Interview

BA Times

The business and economic environment is incredibly tough right now, and I know from conversations with some of my connections that it’s a tricky time to be a BA jobseeker.

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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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21 Reasons You Should Learn R, Python, and Hadoop | Simplilearn

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As Big Data continues to grow in importance at Software as a Service (SaaS) companies, the field of Big Data analytics is a safe bet for any professional looking for a fulfilling, high-paying career. If you’re considering starting or advancing your career in the field of Big Data and data science, we’ve described three popular programming langu. Read More.

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Can Data-Driven Accounts Receivable Management Strengthen Client Relationships?

Smart Data Collective

Big data is central to financial management. The market for financial data analytics is expected to reach $10 billion by 2025. One of the biggest uses of big data in finance relates to accounts receivable management. A decent AR (Accounts Receivable) management system is essential for the functioning of any business, no matter what industry you’re in.

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Data Drives Digital Transformation’s Success in 2021

Dataversity

Click to learn more about author Keith Higgins. As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to accelerate digital transformation into 2021, 73 percent of manufacturers plan to increase their investment in smart factory technology over the next year. However, as manufacturers will favor automation to address social distancing and capacity requirements, people will be critical for digital […].

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Connecting to SharePoint Lists with SSIS

Tim Mitchell

SharePoint lists are popular and simple tools for storing modestly-sized discrete sets of data. SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) includes a source component to allow reading data from SharePoint lists. In this post, I’ll demonstrate how to use SSIS to read from a SharePoint list using the OData source. SharePoint lists A SharePoint list is a simple collection of related.

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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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A Day in the Life of a Data Scientist | Simplilearn

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Did you use the Internet today? Visit Facebook? Buy from Amazon? Check the weather on your smartphone? Watch a YouTube video? Use Uber? Connect on LinkedIn? Text your coworker? If you did any of these activities, you generated data. And you’re only one of the billions who is also generating data. In fact, Internet users now generate 2.5 quin. Read More.

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Proven Strategies for Utilizing A Hybrid Cloud To Revolutionize Your Business

Smart Data Collective

As the needs and goals of a business change, so does the way it utilizes technology. Moving to the cloud and, in turn, leveraging different cloud configurations to run operations is a sound strategy for success. Hybrid cloud solutions, in particular, are experiencing a global surge in adoption. Per a comprehensive report by IBM, hybrid cloud solutions reduce total ownership costs by 54%, hybrid clouds create innovation, make the operation more efficient, and ultimately improve relationships with

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Lessons from a Real Disaster Recovery: You’ve got to Recover the Network First

Dataversity

Click to learn more about author W. Curtis Preston. Being forced to perform a complete disaster recovery under duress is an incredibly difficult thing; it’s also a great way to learn. On my Restore it All podcast, I recently interviewed an IT professional who was the man on the ground after a hurricane took out […]. The post Lessons from a Real Disaster Recovery: You’ve got to Recover the Network First appeared first on DATAVERSITY.

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A Business Use Case Overview of Augmented Analytics!

ElegantJ BI

How Can I Decide Whether My Team Would Actually Benefit from Augmented Analytics? Sometimes it is difficult to imagine how a new process, technique or software solution might help your business. You see the demos, you read the marketing messages and you wonder if there is true value in adopting these new ideas and concepts. When it comes to Advanced Analytics and the benefits of predictive analytics, the same conundrum can often present itself to an enterprise.

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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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What a Day in the Life of an SEO Specialist Looks Like | Simplilearn

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Plenty of people have some notion of search as a tool, because it’s an integral part of marketing, both for small mom-and-pop operations and for massive global conglomerates. Yet very few people understand it in detail, especially search engine optimization or SEO. Most marketers tend to think a few keywords sprinkled throughout some webpages wil. Read More.

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New Microsoft Azure Certifications Path in 2021 [Updated]

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It has been over 3 years when Microsoft announced and released a few major changes in the existing Azure certification path, in 2018 at Ignite Conference. This announcement was no less than the beginning of the modern era of technology. The changes in the certification tracks were made to make the Azure certifications more role-based. Along with the arrival of the new Azure certifications , the news contains the retirement of some of the existing Microsoft Azure exams at the end of 2018.

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The Need for Flexible Data Management: Why Is Data Flexibility So Important?

Dataversity

Click to learn more about author David Leivesley. We live in an era of big data. Amazingly, statistics show that around 90 percent of this data is only two years old. That indicates that businesses, moving forward, will need to anticipate using more and more of it. However, Data Management and structuring are notoriously complex. […]. The post The Need for Flexible Data Management: Why Is Data Flexibility So Important?

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A Business Use Case Overview of Augmented Analytics!

ElegantJ BI

How Can I Decide Whether My Team Would Actually Benefit from Augmented Analytics? Sometimes it is difficult to imagine how a new process, technique or software solution might help your business. You see the demos, you read the marketing messages and you wonder if there is true value in adopting these new ideas and concepts. When it comes to Advanced Analytics and the benefits of predictive analytics, the same conundrum can often present itself to an enterprise.

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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.