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A Perfect Match: Blockchain and Gaming

BizAcuity

The gaming industry never stopped growing. Though initially, there were only a few who anticipated the potential it held, the inception of broadband internet changed things completely. From casino games to arcade games, the industry evolved into online gaming or digital gaming – a virtual jackpot that never seems to run out. Today, online gaming accounts for a major chunk of the industry, which was estimated to have generated $116bn in 2017 alone.

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What Type Of Data Storage Do Smart Cities Need?

Smart Data Collective

Smart cities are gaining popularity across the world thanks to the convenience and efficiency they bring to citizens, visitors, and government leadership. Smart city technology can use data to revolutionize what it means to live and work in a city. First, however, we need the right kind of storage solutions to make all these proposed features functional.

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PASS Summit 2019 – Day 1 Keynote

Tim Mitchell

Today is the first full day of the PASS Summit, and this morning we kicked things off with a 2-hour opening ceremony and keynote. Networking and Growth PASS president Grant Fritchey starts things off appropriately by focusing on networking and career growth. We say it every year, but it bears repeating: the most important thing you’ll get out of being.

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Record-Breaking BBC 2019 Highlights | Analyst Catalyst Blog

Analyst Catalyst Blog

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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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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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Get Started With Business Performance Dashboards – Examples & Templates

Data Pine

To succeed in today’s competitive business world, the ability to make the right decisions at the right time based on water-tight insights is essential. If you don’t have the vision or don’t know what to do with it, you’ll find yourself shooting in the dark – and that is detrimental to the growth and evolution of any business, regardless of size or sector.

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The Only Recipe For A Data Story You'll Ever Need

Juice Analytics

That’s our lead designer, James (out on the town in Nashville with one of our talented developers, Jingwei). James knows data stories. He appreciates that a data story needs to have beautiful, intuitive visualizations and people-first descriptions. But before James worries about all that, he starts by finding the structure of a story. The structure is the narrative flow that will grab a reader’s attention and carry them through the analytics to find valuable, actionable insights.

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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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ISPs Use Holistic Big Data Strategy To Shed Customer Cynicism

Smart Data Collective

ISPs are using data analytics in a variety of ways. Many consumers may be concerned about this, because they are known to exploit customer data. However, they use data in a number of benevolent ways, which many people will be okay with. Pew Research has shown most customers are okay with companies collecting their data if it is used for holistic purposes.

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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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How to Conduct Performance Load Testing for Analytics

Sisense

Blog. Every new product or software sounds great on paper. But what happens when the rubber meets the road? No matter how much preparation you’ve done ahead of time, unforeseen challenges always crop up when you roll out a new solution. That said, let’s talk about the steps you need to take before you have your team or the entire organization start using a new piece of software.

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What is data-driven decision making?

Phocas

Every day, we use data to make decisions in our personal lives. We may use the data collected in product reviews to drive our purchasing choices. We may review crime statistics in a new neighbourhood to help us decide whether to buy a home in the area. We may rely on our GPS to help us choose the best route to where we are going. We rely on data because it is impersonal.

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A Perfect Match: Blockchain and Gaming

BizAcuity

The gaming industry never stopped growing. Though initially, there were only a few who anticipated the potential it held, the inception of broadband internet changed things completely. From casino games to arcade games, the industry evolved into online gaming or digital gaming – a virtual jackpot that never seems to run out. Today, online gaming accounts for a major chunk of the industry, which was estimated to have generated $116bn in 2017 alone.

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7 Ways Big Data Is Pushing CBD Marketing Into The 21st Century

Smart Data Collective

Big data and cannabis are two seemingly different concepts. However, the two industries tie in very well with each other. CBD companies are relying more on big data than ever before. In June, Nicole Martin wrote a very detailed article for Forbes on the role of big data in operations management for the cannabis industry. “Data helps to drive every industry now.

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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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How To Calculate Average Sales

Sisense

Blog. Why Measure Average Sales? How To Calculate? A Variant Average Sales Calculation Other KPIs You Can Include. No matter what industry you’re in, any sector that deals with customers will have to keep track of their sales. When you need a quick way to monitor your company’s success in meeting objectives, sales provide one of the easiest metrics since it is a direct display of efficiency related to profits.

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4 Reasons Nearshoring IT Centers Beat Traditional Offshore Alternatives

QAT Global

4 Reasons Nearshoring IT Centers Beat Traditional Offshore Alternatives Offshoring is a smart software development outsourcing option while facing increasing global competition for many companies. In many circumstances, it not only saves money and enhances profitability, but it also delivers much-needed innovation. In the 1990s, there was a rise in US companies [.].

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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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Machine Learning Drastically Curtails Mobile App Development Mistakes

Smart Data Collective

Machine learning is disrupting the mobile app development industry. Although mobile app developers have used machine learning in some way or another for years, they are finding new applications for it. Machine learning is particularly useful when it comes to avoiding many of the biggest mistakes that app developers make. The Growing Importance of Machine Learning in Mobile App Development.

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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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Embed Fully-Integrated Analytic Apps Fast with Embed SDK

Sisense

Blog. Imagine this scenario: you are trying to improve the stickiness and adoption of your application by delivering additional value with embedded analytics. You also want to provide a seamless experience for your end-user with context-driven analytics so that they can make decisions without leaving your application. As an example, let’s say you have an app that lets clients run and analyze marketing campaigns.

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Prochem stays ahead of the game with data analytics

Phocas

Prochem delivers quality stainless-steel pipe, fittings and valving products to the gas, aerospace, marine and industrial sectors across the Asia Pacific. The company uses data analytics to drive efficiencies and stay competitive. The steel distributor started using Phocas to identify low margin sales automatically. Now, the BI software underpins many smarter ways of working for Prochem such as streamlining the purchasing and stock functions.

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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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Finding a Holistic Predictive Analytics Approach to Boost Employee Retention

Smart Data Collective

The benefits of predictive analytics for businesses are numerous. Most case studies and industry advice columns focus on improved cost effectiveness, the propensity for innovation and the ability to reach new customers. However, predictive analytics can be just as valuable for solving employee retention problems. Towards Data Science discusses some of the benefits of predictive analytics with employee retention.

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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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60 Global Leaders Named Winners in the 2019 BIG Awards for Business

Bintelligence

PHILADELPHIA—November 6, 2019—Today, the Business Intelligence Group announced the winners of the 2019 BIG Awards for Business program. The organization’s annual program was advertised as the “ __ of the Year” program and was launched to reward those companies, products and people that are leading their respective industries. “Leadership, innovation and technology were all major themes shared by this year’s winners of the BIG Awards for Business,” said Maria Jimenez, chief nominations officer fo

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Phocas vs IBM Planning Analytics (BI tools comparison based on BARC 19)

Phocas

Phocas and IBM Planning Analytics went head-to-head in the world's largest business intelligence user survey, BARC's The BI Survey 19. Customers of both products respond to detailed questions across criteria such as business value, ease of use and functionality. The findings are a great way to compare business intelligence tools because they come from real people who use the software.

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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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Reviews Done Right

The BA Doc

Do you continue to find yourself dealing with more downstream rework than anticipated? If so, you may need to enhance your review process to get the most out of your stakeholders ahead of time. Reviews are used to evalua.

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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.