BA Learnings

APRIL 22, 2018

If you’ve worked as a Business Analyst for a while, you’ve probably encountered stakeholders who appear quite economical with information. You know there’s more to the issue than they’re letting on. While there are multiple reasons why stakeholders may hold back information (see How to Deal With A Difficult Stakeholder ), there are also some basic approaches you can adopt, all of which are recommended by psychologists, to encourage stakeholders to speak or open up.

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IBM Big Data Hub

APRIL 9, 2018

There’s a general need for next-gen executives to not only understand corporate regulations, but be able to adhere to and follow them using metadata solutions like data governance. As the business world’s top asset becomes data, data governance will ensure that data and information being handled is consistent, reliable and trustworthy. Establishing and deploying an analytics platform that embeds data governance and data integration, amongst other solutions, has never been more critical.

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ScienceSoft

APRIL 3, 2018

Our big data consultants have come up with an easy guide to real-time big data analytics. We explain the term and describe a typical architecture, as well as share our thoughts about whether real-time analytics can be a competitive advantage.

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Bruno Aziza

APRIL 2, 2018

Blockchain is impacting key industries such as healthcare and life sciences today. The time is right to review some of the emerging use cases and consider where blockchain may lead.

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Paul Blogs on BI

APRIL 16, 2018

I recently signed up for a sponsored bike ride and needed to buy a bike. Since I have never ridden more than 5 miles in my life before and I had signed up to ride 25 miles, my eldest son, who is an avid cyclist, told me which bike to buy and to get a professional fitting. So, I made an appointment and was told it would take 2 hours. I was taken to an area where there was a collection of equipment and a number of framed certificates on the walls specifying that the person who was doing my fittin

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DataRobot Blog

APRIL 25, 2018

by Jen Underwood. Classic! On the same day as Qlik’s roadmap keynote and Power BI’s Summit in Ireland, Tableau decides to rain on both of those parades. Tableau stole the thunder yesterday with. Read More.

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IBM Big Data Hub

APRIL 24, 2018

According to real estate data firm Co-Star, over 90 million square feet of retail space is slated to close this year, leading observers to point to an obvious truth: empathy matters in customer service. .

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ScienceSoft

APRIL 11, 2018

As a manufacturer, you’re interested to see what big data can do for you? Then check out these 12 real-life use cases for big data in manufacturing and see a nice and easy guide on how to start your big data action.

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Bruno Aziza

APRIL 11, 2018

How Data Operations, known as DataOps, is transforming data management by allowing business users to curate data and gain confidence in their results.

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Juice Analytics

APRIL 18, 2018

The Nashville Analytics Summit will be on us before we know it. This special gathering of data and analytics professionals is scheduled for August 20th and 21st, and should be bigger and better than ever. From my first experience with the Summit in 2014, it has consistently been a highlight of my year. My first Summit took place at the Lipscomb Spark Center meeting space with about a hundred attendees.

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Speaker: Scott Sehlhorst

We know we want to create products which our customers find to be valuable. Whether we label it as customer-centric or product-led depends on how long we've been doing product management. There are three challenges we face when doing this. The obvious challenge is figuring out what our users need; the non-obvious challenges are in creating a shared understanding of those needs and in sensing if what we're doing is meeting those needs.

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John Wheeler

APRIL 30, 2018

It’s that time of year again! Preparations for our upcoming global summit events are at a fever pitch. A central theme for this year’s summit is how integrated risk management (IRM) can improve overall resilience to withstand a major cyber attack. “Cybersecurity Redefined in the Digital Era” describes how an IRM strategy must incorporate system assurance, business continuity and safety management inputs to develop a multi-domain approach for cyber and physical security

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BA Learnings

APRIL 8, 2018

Ready to plunge into the networking space? Professional groups on LinkedIn offer an effective platform for you to share ideas, stay on top of trends, explore opportunities and advance your career as a Business Analyst. Here is a selection of LinkedIn groups you should explore: Modern Analyst Business Analyst Community IIBA (International Institute of Business Analysis) Business Analyst Professional - BA, Analysis Going Agile?

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IBM Big Data Hub

APRIL 25, 2018

Most sales-driven organizations have needed a customer retention model at some point or another. The request is fairly straightforward: identify the customers that a business might lose. But the process can create a nightmare.

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ScienceSoft

APRIL 10, 2018

When it comes to data quality, big data can be somewhat deceptive. See what exactly quality big data is, how you can get it and what cacao has to do with all this.

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Speaker: Timothy Chan, PhD., Head of Data Science

Are you ready to move beyond the basics and take a deep dive into the cutting-edge techniques that are reshaping the landscape of experimentation? 🌐 From Sequential Testing to Multi-Armed Bandits, Switchback Experiments to Stratified Sampling, Timothy Chan, Data Science Lead, is here to unravel the mysteries of these powerful methodologies that are revolutionizing how we approach testing.

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Bruno Aziza

APRIL 25, 2018

Big Data has become the Big Bad of our moment. Big Data was once the promise of the future. How did we get here?

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Smarten

APRIL 27, 2018

Smart Data Visualization Takes the Guesswork Out of Analytics! Smart data visualization tools should include augmented data discovery with features that guide and show business users how to get the most out of data and how to display that data in a way that will make decision-making and analysis as easy as drag and drop. Data visualization does not have to be complicated, nor does it require software or features that take months to learn and master.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 26, 2018

I came across this quote by Yogi Berra the other day, and it truly encapsulates the intent behind this article: “If you don’t know where you are going, you’ll end up somewhere else.”. As organizations strive to continue responding to market changes and opportunities, there is an increasing need for solid operational and strategic information to better support the business.

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Hurwitz & Associates

APRIL 19, 2018

Atos is a rapidly growing company that has inherited complexity and some great IP through its many acquisitions over the years. In fact, since 2002 the company has acquired 17 companies – many within the last four years. The company focuses on telecommunications, IT consulting services and solutions, data management, customer relationship management and service management.

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Speaker: Kevin Kai Wong, President of Emergent Energy Solutions

In today's industrial landscape, the pursuit of sustainable energy optimization and decarbonization has become paramount. Manufacturing corporations across the U.S. are facing the urgent need to align with decarbonization goals while enhancing efficiency and productivity. Unfortunately, the lack of comprehensive energy data poses a significant challenge for manufacturing managers striving to meet their targets.

IBM Big Data Hub

APRIL 11, 2018

Welcome to Thoughts on AI, a new blog series focused on issues and advances in artificial intelligence. We’ll cover the technologies and people shaping the future AI. First up: avoiding bias built into intelligence and analytics.

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ScienceSoft

APRIL 13, 2018

We look at the specifics of IoT big data, as well as describe what important things you should consider prior to designing and implementing IoT data storage and analysis.

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Bruno Aziza

APRIL 15, 2018

7 years ago, I wrote in this column about why LinkedIn was more valuable than Facebook. Before you read any further, let me set the record straight: Facebook is bigger than LinkedIn: its valuation currently is almost $478 Billion. LinkedIn got acquired by Microsoft in 2015 for “only” $26B.

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Smarten

APRIL 25, 2018

Augmented Analytics and Advanced Data Discovery for Business Users! Augmented analytics can help your business users to find and understand critical data and to do their jobs more effectively. Without the knowledge of a data scientist or an IT professional, business users can perform advanced analytics, using features that guide and make recommendations at every step so that data is prepared, viewed and analyzed in a way that ensures clarity and a comprehensive understanding of trends, patterns,

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Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

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Nutanix

APRIL 24, 2018

Managing the proliferation and performance demands of modern, next-gen workloads can be daunting as businesses continue to accelerate their transition to the multi-cloud world.

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 30, 2018

Today something complex, advanced, that is most applicable to those who are at the edges of spending money, and thus have an intricate web of internal and external teams to deliver customer engagement and business success. The Marketing Industrial Empire is made up of number of components. If you consider the largest pieces, there is the internal (you, the company) and the external (agencies, consultants).

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IBM Big Data Hub

APRIL 23, 2018

Think 2018 in Las Vegas was a record breaking event, where tens of thousands of attendees gathered to talk with one another and share their experiences. Visionary speakers and experts shared their solutions for some of the world’s most daunting challenges.

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ScienceSoft

APRIL 5, 2018

Our big data consultants compare Apache Cassandra against Hadoop Distributed File System and describe their key functional differences. Find out which of the two is a better choice for your project and which one shows better performance.

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Speaker: Nicholas Zeisler, CX Strategist & Fractional CXO

The first step in a successful Customer Experience endeavor (or for that matter, any business proposition) is to find out what’s wrong. If you can’t identify it, you can’t fix it! 💡 That’s where the Voice of the Customer (VoC) comes in. Today, far too many brands do VoC simply because that’s what they think they’re supposed to do; that’s what all their competitors do.

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Bruno Aziza

APRIL 16, 2018

Social media is bringing us down, but community-powered entertainment platforms can pick us back up.

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Smarten

APRIL 20, 2018

Augmented Analytics is the Key to User-Friendly Business Intelligence! Augmented Analytics and augmented data discovery is a form of advanced data discovery that automates data insight using machine learning and natural language generation. It automates data preparation and makes it easy for business users to enjoy data sharing. Advanced Analytics uses sophisticated techniques and algorithms in an automated environment to simplify the analytical process for the average business user, so users ar

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Nutanix

APRIL 30, 2018

At Nutanix, we are what some may say obsessed about our customer and their success. Our EVP of Engineering and Operations recently blogged how we have built customer trust and a reputation for customer satisfaction, a sustained effort that goes back years.

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Darkhorse

APRIL 9, 2018

Many organizations have begun to recognize the benefit of using analytics to support decision-making. At least in the abstract. But how to get the capability is not so clear. Do you hire a data scientist? Do you build your own analytics team? Or do you just bring in the high-powered consultants for a quick tactical mission? Before we get too far, let’s make sure we answer the first question: Do you really need your own analytics capability?

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