Sat.Dec 15, 2018 - Fri.Dec 21, 2018

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Social Media Rage (Cartoon)

Timo Elliott

Am I the only one who does this? Algorithmically, social media is designed to be rage-inducing — deliberately, cynically — in order to get more clicks and show you more ads. And it’s ripping apart society.

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It’s Easy to Connect Enterprise Apps to BI Tools!

ElegantJ BI

Can My Business Leverage Data from Enterprise Apps by Connecting BI Tools? Imagine if you were able to connect a business intelligence solution or BI tool to your enterprise applications without expensive, cumbersome integration! You would have access to all of that data for analysis, reporting and you could combine this data with data from other sources to get meaningful results, predict and forecast, identify trends and patterns and collaborate and share data.

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SSIS Catalog Execution Parameter Values

Tim Mitchell

When doing any new development or major overhaul of existing SSIS architecture, I almost always recommend to clients that they deploy those packages to the SSIS catalog. Using the catalog to store and execute SSIS packages takes a lot of the manual work out of development and maintenance, particularly when it comes to package logging. When you execute a package.

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Balanced Professional Interest

Leading Agile

Warning: Preachy content. In working with technical people at the individual and team levels, I often find attitudes that pull toward one extreme or the other: Either our work is inherently uninteresting, and we’re only in it for the paycheck; or our work is a boundless source of joy, learning, and achievement through which we can transcend the human condition.

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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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10 Visualizations of Juicebox

Juice Analytics

Christmas is a special time of year. We all have our favorite aspects of the season. In the spirit of Christmas and the Christmas carol, the 12 days of Christmas, here are the Juice team’s 10 favorite visualizations. You will recognize some of these as your own favorites, but some are exclusive to the Juicebox platform. To learn more about the visualizations exclusive to Juicebox and Juice design schedule some time with us.

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Personal Touch: An Argument Against Automation

Tim Mitchell

At the far end of an out-of-the-way aging strip shopping center in southern Louisiana, there stands a small and modest sushi restaurant. The exterior could be described as tasteful minimalistic: there are no big signs, no flashy advertising, and the word “fancy” would never be used to describe it. Inside, it is a small space, seemingly purposeful in its meager.

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The Importance of Imports in Java

Leading Agile

A tweet from Kevlin Henney in August 2018 reopened an old can of worms: The “issue” has never seemed a Big Deal® to me. Even so, a couple of things came to mind when I first read Kevlin’s tweet: Java is designed to work both ways: With wildcard imports or with specific ones. So, programmers who prefer one way or the other are using the language “as designed.” IDEs don’t necessarily default to specific imports.

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New Domo Data Science Suite Unleashes the Power of Advanced Analytics

Domo

We’ve all heard it or even seen the stats to back it up: The volume of data generated each minute grows exponentially. In fact, if IDC’s predictions are to be believed, the world will eclipse the 170 zettabyte threshold by 2025. That’s five times what was created in 2018. For that reason, there has never been a bigger opportunity for businesses to gain proactive insights into all the information available to them.

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It’s Easy to Connect Enterprise Apps to BI Tools!

ElegantJ BI

Can My Business Leverage Data from Enterprise Apps by Connecting BI Tools? Imagine if you were able to connect a business intelligence solution or BI tool to your enterprise applications without expensive, cumbersome integration! You would have access to all of that data for analysis, reporting and you could combine this data with data from other sources to get meaningful results, predict and forecast, identify trends and patterns and collaborate and share data.

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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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SSIS Catalog Automatic Log Cleanup

Tim Mitchell

Built into the SSIS catalog is a mechanism that can automatically purge log data after a set period of time. In this post, I’ll show you how to set up and manage that functionality. SSIS catalog automatic log cleanup The SQL Server Integration Services catalog database – SSISDB – has several dozen logging tables that are used to capture details. The post SSIS Catalog Automatic Log Cleanup appeared first on Tim Mitchell.

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LeadingAgile:A Year in Review – 2018

Leading Agile

Without all of you in the Agile community, our awesome customers, and the people that work here…LeadingAgile wouldn’t be what it is today. So, as 2018 comes to a close, we wanted to take a moment to reflect on what was truly important, and celebrate all the things that went into making this year such a successful one. The post LeadingAgile:<br>A Year in Review – 2018 appeared first on LeadingAgile.

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3 Ways To Use Servant Leadership In Your Organization

Agile Velocity

Servant leadership is a term that’s been around for decades. While it can sometimes feel overused or outdated, I believe the principles of servant leadership remain as relevant today as they’ve ever been. For example, a 2017 Gallup workplace poll found that roughly two-thirds of American employees are either not engaged or are actively disengaged from their work.

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Case Study: Fund Management System with Business Intelligence Analytics for India’s National Dairy Development Board

ElegantJ BI

The National Dairy Development Board promotes finances and supports producer-owned and controlled organizations across India. Its programs and activities are designed to strengthen farmer cooperatives and to support national policies that are designed for the growth of these institutions. The NDDB site and team provides information for consumers, dairy farmers, cooperative and engineering services, sector analysis and studies and more.

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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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Processing Multiple Files in SSIS with the Foreach Loop

Tim Mitchell

Yesterday I wrote about the little-known but still useful multiple flat file connection manager. In this post, I will briefly show a more commonly used alternative approach for processing multiple data files: the foreach loop container. The SSIS foreach loop container The foreach loop container is used to iterate through a discrete list of items at runtime.

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Insights at the Speed of Business

Actian

Modern businesses move fast and the speed of business is accelerating every day with no sign of slowing. To survive, companies must find ways to remove friction in their systems and business processes – leveraging real-time operational data and translating it into actionable insights that drive activities across the company. From strategic decision-making to low-level operations and customer experience, your entire company must have up-to-date information and insights to keep pace with the speed

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Boosting Your Confidence as a Business Analyst

The BA Doc

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Business Users and Data Scientists Get Predictive Analytics!

ElegantJ BI

Biz Users Get Plug n’ Play Analytics, Data Scientists Get R Integration! When someone says ‘plug n’ play’, a lot of people think of the idea of plugging in an electrical appliance and having it run instantly. I think plug n’ play analysis should be that simple as well! My business users don’t have the skill, the patience or the time to become data scientists.

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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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Using the SSIS Multiple Flat Files Connection Manager

Tim Mitchell

When building an ETL pipeline to import data from a text file, it’s very common to have the incoming data spread across multiple files. For example, if you are ingesting files generated on a periodic basis (per day, per hour, etc.), you could have dozens or hundreds of files with identical structure. This is an ideal setup for building a. The post Using the SSIS Multiple Flat Files Connection Manager appeared first on Tim Mitchell.

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Why Hybrid Integration Is the Key to Digital Transformation

Actian

Digital transformation of business is one of the biggest trends of the IT industry during the past few years and is projected to continue to be an important part of companies’ business strategies through 2020. With digital transformation initiatives, companies are transforming business processes to leverage modern technology in new ways – deeply integrating technology-enabled automation with human-driven tasks to create hybrid business/technology processes.

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The Promise of Blockchain

Domo

Could this be tech’s next big thing? Bitcoin, blockchain, crypto currencies—the buzz around tech’s newest—and potentially most ambitious—venture is tangible. But the general knowledge of what exactly blockchain is, how it works, and its incredible potential, is falling short of its meteoric rise. We sat down with Jonathan Johnson, a member of the Board Directors of Overstock.com, a company whose stock rose rose a great deal in 2017, thanks in part to its embracing blockchain technology fol

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Business Users and Data Scientists Get Predictive Analytics!

ElegantJ BI

Biz Users Get Plug n’ Play Analytics, Data Scientists Get R Integration! When someone says ‘plug n’ play’, a lot of people think of the idea of plugging in an electrical appliance and having it run instantly. I think plug n’ play analysis should be that simple as well! My business users don’t have the skill, the patience or the time to become data scientists.

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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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Business Users and Data Scientists Get Predictive Analytics!

ElegantJ BI

Biz Users Get Plug n’ Play Analytics, Data Scientists Get R Integration! When someone says ‘plug n’ play’, a lot of people think of the idea of plugging in an electrical appliance and having it run instantly. I think plug n’ play analysis should be that simple as well! My business users don’t have the skill, the patience or the time to become data scientists.

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Case Study: Fund Management System with Business Intelligence Analytics for India’s National Dairy Development Board

ElegantJ BI

The National Dairy Development Board promotes finances and supports producer-owned and controlled organizations across India. Its programs and activities are designed to strengthen farmer cooperatives and to support national policies that are designed for the growth of these institutions. The NDDB site and team provides information for consumers, dairy farmers, cooperative and engineering services, sector analysis and studies and more.

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Case Study: Fund Management System with Business Intelligence Analytics for India’s National Dairy Development Board

ElegantJ BI

The National Dairy Development Board promotes finances and supports producer-owned and controlled organizations across India. Its programs and activities are designed to strengthen farmer cooperatives and to support national policies that are designed for the growth of these institutions. The NDDB site and team provides information for consumers, dairy farmers, cooperative and engineering services, sector analysis and studies and more.

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Worried about SQLite security vulnerabilities? Keep calm and stay safe.

Actian

Face the inevitable: Local persistent data at the Edge will happen. It’s indisputable that Edge Intelligence will grow, whether that’s mobile applications running on Smartphones, IoT applications running in Smart Cars (or the underlying sensors), in the entertainment center, navigation systems, etc. There will be countless mobile and IoT – taken as a whole, Edge scenarios – where a native application will be a better approach than a web-based application, or where it would be inefficient/

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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.