Peter James Thomas

MARCH 17, 2020

There are many different interrelated activities, each one of which requires experience and expertise in both what makes businesses tick and the types of Data-related capabilities and organisation designs that can better support this. Turning this into Data Capabilities that add business value is even more stimulating.

Data Strategy 80

Data Strategy Strategy Cost-Benefit Business Intelligence 80

Peter James Thomas

MARCH 23, 2020

The author, working from home together with his Executive Assistant. © Here and now, in late March 2020, many of us are adjusting to working from home for the first time on an extended basis [2]. In this piece, I wanted to talk about my first experience of extended home working. Business Interviews and 1.5

Data Strategy 89

Data Strategy Strategy Insurance Interactive 89

Smart Data Collective

JUNE 23, 2019

By collecting data, open spots in the structure can be tagged and it can be identified when the structure is full. From big data, city officials and businesses can practice effective resource management. Big data helps to give great insight into this, which enables government to use its resources in more effective and intelligent ways.

Big Data 108

Big Data Cost-Benefit Measurement Management 108

bridgei2i

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Artificial intelligence (AI) is the process in which the machines and software solutions are created to be smarter and think as humans do. Simply using the tools without planning or understanding is the main reason why businesses are failing and are becoming wary of using artificial intelligence. Robotics, driverless cars, etc.

Enterprise 52

Enterprise Data mining Consulting Risk Management 52

bridgei2i

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

This push for an enterprise-wide radical change in vision, process, technology stack and most importantly culture has pushed executives to think about “Digital transformation” more seriously, not only as initiatives but as a means to drive key business outcomes such as: Contextualizing Customer Experience. Improving Operational Effectiveness.

IoT 69

IoT Internet of Things Digital Transformation ROI 69

Jet Global

MARCH 5, 2019

With all the attention being paid to artificial intelligence (AI) these days, it’s no surprise that enterprise leaders are scrambling to find ways to shoehorn AI implementations into their technology stack. But are those tools powered by artificial intelligence? So why the confusion? So what can AI actually do?

Business Intelligence 75

Business Intelligence OLAP Visualization Reporting 75

Ontotext

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

You want elemental particles to have existed for billions of years, the sun and planets created, you want apple trees to be domesticated and the industrial revolution to have made home ovens possible. Knowledge graphs have been proven to be a powerful, scalable and intelligent technology for solving today’s complex business needs.

Metadata 72

Metadata Cost-Benefit Unstructured Data Technology 72

Occam's Razor

MARCH 30, 2017

While the phrase Artificial Intelligence has been around since the first human wondered if she could go further if she had access to entities with inorganic intelligence, it truly jumped the shark in 2016. What the heck is Artificial Intelligence? Artificial Intelligence | Future | Kids. AI | Now | Global Maxima.

Marketing Analytics 166

Marketing Analytics Marketing Analytics Deep Learning 166

Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 14, 2014

This recommendation also valuable for companies that have very unique business models, or face other unusual circumstances (geographic, size, amount of innovation, and many others). Clean measures of conversion rates require a clean and standard implementation of the ecommerce tags. See Page 269. :). So how can you use your own data?

Key Performance Indicator 133

Key Performance Indicator Metrics Reporting Marketing 133

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 7, 2007

For some reason there is so much on this blog about the “business side” of things but not much technical stuff. So to make up for that this post covers some of the “technical” best practices around tracking with your web analytics tools, especially if you are using JavaScript tags. 3: Tags should be inline. #

Analytics 93

Analytics Data Collection Reporting Marketing 93

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 2, 2013

The stories and examples will hopefully help you intelligently approach your own data in these reports and quickly find insights you can action / share with your management team. Before you log into Google Analytics it is really really helpful to get context about the company/client's business. What other sources are big for them?

Strategy 159

Strategy Analytics Reporting Metrics 159

Cloudera

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Many aspects of our business live within this modern data architecture, providing all Clouderans the ability to ask, and answer, important questions for the business. One of the core requirements to successfully understand your cloud spend is having your resources properly tagged. Project CloudCost — design.

IT 84

IT Data Warehouse Dashboards Visualization 84

erwin

APRIL 21, 2020

Similarly, a data catalog enables businesses to create a seamless way for employees to access and consume data and business assets in an organized manner. As illustrated above, a data catalog is essential to business users because it synthesizes all the details about an organization’s data assets across multiple data sources.

Measurement 97

Measurement Sales Data Governance Metadata 97

erwin

APRIL 21, 2020

One of the biggest lessons we’re learning from the global COVID-19 pandemic is the importance of data, specifically using a data catalog to comply, collaborate and innovate to crisis-proof our businesses. Let’s discuss what a data catalog is, what it does and its business value. What Is a Data Catalog?

Measurement 96

Measurement Sales Data Governance Metadata 96

Occam's Razor

MAY 4, 2010

Finally you offer a hypothesis that I can test, and you were clever enough to point to two things of value to the business (both of which can be measured!). Spend time understanding the keyword market and consumer interest for the business you are analyzing. Home Buyers? It is ok that you started with a hunch. Affluent 100k+?

Testing 112

Testing Advertising Marketing Measurement 112

AWS Big Data

APRIL 28, 2023

This will include how to configure Okta, AWS Lake Formation , and a business intelligence tool to enable SAML-based federated use of Athena for an enterprise BI activity. Then, in the Amazon Cognito identity pool, we map the user pool attributes to session tags to use them for access control.

Data Governance 65

Data Governance Management Data-driven Data Lake 65

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 26, 2008

" Or " I proposed testing / surveys / competitive intelligence / Analysts but I was shot down." 4: Competitive Intelligence is Your New Best Friend. # 4: Competitive Intelligence is Your New Best Friend. . " Our Senior Management won't let us do that." " Or one of many such variations.

Management 68

Management Experimentation Testing Strategy 68

AWS Big Data

MARCH 18, 2024

Use geospatial queries to tag addresses to census blocks. Visualize the new demographic data with QuickSight QuickSight is a cloud-scale business intelligence (BI) service that you can use to deliver easy-to-understand insights to the people who you work with, wherever they are. Set up a place index in Amazon Location Service.

Data Warehouse 78

Data Warehouse Visualization Snapshot Data-driven 78

Sisense

JULY 24, 2020

In The State of BI & Analytics , we expand on our original research, keeping you ahead of the curve on the world of analytics, data, and business intelligence. Small businesses lead larger ones in overall analytics adoption across their organizations. The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted virtually every sector.

Data-driven 96

Data-driven Cost-Benefit Interactive Marketing 96

Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Web Analytics blog was to pull us up 10,000 feet to do something we do less than 1% of the time in the web analytics world – look at the bigger business picture. Can I add any business value? It's a sign of a healthy business that has a diversified customer acquisition strategy. Starting Right! A real challenge!

Reporting 139

Reporting Metrics Strategy Measurement 139

Occam's Razor

APRIL 21, 2014

We will cover questions in four areas: business/strategy challenges, analytics/technical challenges, career/self-development questions and rampant speculation. Business/Strategy Challenges. Nothing changes for the business. Add value to the business. Best Web Metrics / KPIs for a Small, Medium or Large Sized Business.

Marketing Analytics 131

Marketing Analytics Marketing Analytics Measurement 131

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 30, 2012

When it comes to data analysis, you are usually more likely to see me share guidance on advanced segmentation or custom reports or advanced social metrics or controlled experiments or economic value or competitive intelligence or web analytics maturity or one of an infinite number of difficult, if hugely rewarding, things. Ravaging data.

Analytics 145

Analytics Dashboards Metrics Key Performance Indicator 145

AWS Big Data

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

As the application portfolio grows, customers tend to store data from multiple application and different business functions in a single S3 bucket, which can grow the storage in S3 buckets to hundreds of TBs. Intelligent-Tiering: Access tier – Indicates the access tier of the object if it was stored in Intelligent-Tie Choose Create.

Reporting 83

Reporting Data Lake Management Optimization 83

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 7, 2019

Businesses win when you optimize for a portfolio, because at any given time only a tiny fraction of people want to buy. See-Think-Do-Care is a great intent-centric business framework, if I may say so myself, for challenging your current marketing strategy. Don't leave it at home when you leave for work. Including profits.

Marketing Analytics 88

Marketing Analytics Marketing Analytics Strategy 88

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 8, 2008

That's regardless of source: weather they use the religious truth from a Competitive intelligence tool or from their website web analytics solution. For the latter it does not matter what data capture methodology you use on your site, WebLogs or JavaScript Tags. It knows how long the Visitor spent on the home page.

Metrics 121

Metrics Measurement Analytics Reporting 121

Occam's Razor

MARCH 23, 2010

Javascript tag driven click data processed in the cloud provided through a web based front end that allows you to segment and create meaningful views of the data unique to you. In case of WebTrends replace those terms with Marketing Intelligence / Visitor Data Mart etc. Most case studies were at best from tangential businesses.

Analytics 118

Analytics Consulting Metrics Experimentation 118

Peter James Thomas

AUGUST 12, 2018

Choices are made as to how to construct such compound metrics and how to relate them to actual business outcomes. For example: Is this a good way to define New Business Growth? Are there any weaknesses in this definition, for example is it sensitive to any glitches in – say – the tagging of Repeat Business?

Metrics 49

Metrics Statistics Data Quality Measurement 49

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

And yet our work results in very little impact on the business in terms of action taken by company leaders. What dimensions, if analyzed, will deliver juicy business insights? You are going to have to throw away the shackles, and think like a business owner. I'm not an expert in the credit score reporting business.

IT 138

IT Measurement Marketing Metrics 138

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 9, 2012

Even if these unimaginative companies spend a ton of money on Omniture, IBM, WebTrends, Yandex Analytics and Google Analytics, we digital analysts will lead unimpactful puking tagging lives. After 19 visits, www.bloomberg.com should create a home page around my interests, not their one-size-fits-all pimping to everyone.

Marketing 140

Marketing B2B Measurement Risk 140

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Competitive intelligence, the "what else", is one of the core tenets of Web Analytics 2.0. Here are the sources of competitive intelligence data. #1: Therefore, most monitored behavior tends to come from home users. Competitive intelligence vendors are observing you from the outside. 1: Toolbar Data.

Metrics 123

Metrics Advertising Reporting Software 123

AWS Big Data

MAY 4, 2023

With Redshift Serverless, users such as data analysts, developers, business professionals, and data scientists can get insights from data by simply loading and querying data in the data warehouse. The API uses the principal tags to determine the user and database roles that the user belongs to. console.aws.amazon.com/sqlworkbench/home.

Finance 77

Finance Data Warehouse Sales Metadata 77

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 27, 2022

Data fabric, data cleansing and tagging, data models, containers, inference at the edge – cloud-enabled platforms are all “go-to” conversation points. The DJM provides a reference point to examine four key business-driven agendas associated with how to navigate a data-first modernization. The Experience Agenda.

Strategy 135

Strategy Data-driven Internet of Things Measurement 135

Alation

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

2 Everyone wants a cleaner home… but how many of us like cleaning our homes? Data governance introduces tagging and labeling to address this challenge. Tags and labels clarify where a certain type of data, (say, address, for example) is grouped under the same name. And it’s growing in popularity.

Data Lake 52

Data Lake Data Governance ROI Cost-Benefit 52

bridgei2i

MARCH 3, 2021

I lead the Intelligent Automation practice focusing on application development and platforms. Today, when data is generated from different sources like text, image, videos, sensors, and so on, extracting actionable intelligence from these massive data sets is an art and a science. I’m your host – Pawan Kumar.

Enterprise 98

Enterprise Digital Transformation Data-driven Interactive 98

Alation

APRIL 19, 2022

Threats to your business are no longer constrained by distance or geography. Data producers and consumers alike are working from home and hybrid locations more often. Data modernization optimizes your cloud data platform capabilities by standardizing your data types and tags to efficiently use and monetize your data.

Cost-Benefit 52

Cost-Benefit Data Governance Manufacturing Data Architecture 52

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Regular readers of the blog know of my deep love for competitive intelligence analysis. Competitive Intelligence Analysis: Why, What & How to Choose. In this post we'll go back to the wondrous world of competitive intelligence analysis. How is competitive intelligence data collected? Small sites are out-of-luck.

Metrics 155

Metrics Reporting IT Advertising 155

Jet Global

MAY 1, 2023

Learn how embedded analytics are different from traditional business intelligence and what analytics users expect. Embedded Analytics Definition Embedded analytics are the integration of analytics content and capabilities within applications, such as business process applications (e.g., CRM, ERP, EHR/EMR) or portals (e.g.,

Analytics 52

Analytics Cost-Benefit Visualization Dashboards 52