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What is Predictive Analytics and Can it Help You Achieve Business Objectives?

Smarten

Predictive analytics employs various analytical and modeling techniques, leveraging historical data and business results to identify crucial relationships, opportunities and risks so that business managers can more accurately predict growth, and competitive and market changes and identify trends and patterns.

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BusinessObjects and PowerBI May Lead to Hair Loss

Paul Blogs on BI

While I have described the co-existence of BusinessObjects and Tableau like the romance between Romeo and Juliette ( see 2017 blog ), I look at the co-existence of BusinessObjects and PowerBI as the romance between Samson and Delilah. They are a software company and only a slice of their business is BI but nowhere near the main slice.

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Navigating Data Entities, BYOD, and Data Lakes in Microsoft Dynamics

Jet Global

When Microsoft released the next generation of the product in 2017, Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Supply Chain Management (D365F&SCM) , there were some significant changes behind the scenes. Because ADLS is new technology, there simply isn’t a lot of experience on the market. Data Entities.

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Havmor’s VP IT Dhaval Mankad on ‘melting’ hurdles with a scoop of digital innovation

CIO Business Intelligence

My prominent achievements include managing the intricate implementation of GST and its setup in L&T in 2017 and at Havmor, where I recently completed 5 years, the SAP S4 HANA Greenfield implementation. Could you tell us how digital innovation works in the backend of a customer-facing business like Havmor?

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4 key roles that define transformational IT leaders today

CIO Business Intelligence

Smith is now very involved in mapping the customer journey and understanding customer experience , and IT has partnered with the university’s marketing department. Chief empowering officer When Mike Cleary joined Sentry Equipment in 2017 as IT leader, it was a new role for the global manufacturing company based in Oconomowoc, Wisc.

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Goodbye Oracle Discoverer, Hello Next-Generation Reporting

Jet Global

Note that extended support for Oracle Discoverer ended in 2017. It’s also important to consider your business objectives, both inside and outside finance. The enterprise software market is full of Oracle reporting tools , but not all of them offer the upgrade you’re looking for.

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Why adopt a hybrid, multi-cloud strategy?

Cloudera

of application workloads were still on-premises in enterprise data centers; by the end of 2017, less than half (47.2%) were on-premises. Transforming Your Business with Multi-cloud and Hybrid Strategies. Your business objectives should drive your cloud strategies. Lakshmi Randall, Director of Product Marketing.