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What Makes a Metric a KPI?

David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

How does your organization define and display its metrics? I believe many organizations are not defining and displaying metrics in a way that benefits them most. If an organization goes through the trouble of measuring and reporting on a metric, the analysis ought to include all the information needed to evaluate that metric effectively.

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Data science vs. machine learning: What’s the difference?

IBM Big Data Hub

While data science and machine learning are related, they are very different fields. In a nutshell, data science brings structure to big data while machine learning focuses on learning from the data itself. What is machine learning? This post will dive deeper into the nuances of each field.

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5 hot IT budget investments — and 2 going cold

CIO Business Intelligence

CIOs anticipate an increased focus on cybersecurity (70%), data analysis (55%), data privacy (55%), AI/machine learning (55%), and customer experience (53%). Dental company SmileDirectClub has invested in an AI and machine learning team to help transform the business and the customer experience, says CIO Justin Skinner.

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Digital KPIs: The secret to measuring transformational success

CIO Business Intelligence

The culture transformation and evolutions in digital core competencies that CIOs target as their new collaborative operating models require KPIs to guide executives on where to focus leadership efforts, communications, and process improvements. Efficiency metrics might show the impacts of automation and data-driven decision-making.

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AI In Analytics: Today and Tomorrow!

Smarten

Anomaly Alerts KPI monitoring and Auto Insights allows business users to quickly establish KPIs and target metrics and identify the Key Influencers and variables for the target KPI. This technology can be a valuable tool to automate functions and to generate ideas. This is the most talked-about offering on the market today.

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13 power tips for Microsoft Power BI

CIO Business Intelligence

You can also use Power BI to prepare and manage high-quality data to use across the business in other tools, from low-code apps to machine learning. With Power BI, you can pull data from almost any data source and create dashboards that track the metrics you care about the most.

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How AI is Lowering the Barrier to Entry for BI and Analytics

Birst BI

Historically, business users have been presented with dashboards that describe the current state of a KPI, i.e. Net Profitability, Customer Retention, and more. What happens next is a treasure hunt in identifying the drivers of the KPI’s behavior. But the industry is undergoing a fundamental transformation. It’s a game changer.

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