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Advice from procurement: How to evaluate and propose new IT investments

CIO Business Intelligence

So how can you request a new investment from your decision-makers while ensuring minimal costs and maximum ROI this year? In a survey by Deloitte , 65% of organizations reported that cost reduction was a top business priority, and 52% cited TCO reduction as a key strategy for achieving this goal.

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How to get your CFO to buy into a better model for IT funding

CIO Business Intelligence

And they want to know exactly how much return on investment (ROI) can be expected when IT leaders make technology-related changes. CFOs have grown comfortable with the traditional project-based approach, through which they believe they get a better handle on spend certainty and a better sense of ROI.

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A Complete Guide To Driving Digital Transformation In Marketing

datapine

An accounting department may consider leveraging electronic contracts, data collecting, and reporting as a part of the digital transition. Several marketing dashboard tools allow you to generate automated online dashboards and reports to track your most relevant KPIs in one place. Interactivity-driven Social Marketing.

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Google Analytics Custom Reports: Paid Search Campaigns Analysis

Occam's Razor

Every Analysis Ninja knows that standard reports are lame. Custom reports on the other hand are, well, hand crafted by you for a specific purpose with a set of guiding principles (" Acquisition, Behavior, Outcomes! ") that ensure that they don't so much deliver data as much as deliver insights.

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A Guide To The Top 14 Types Of Reports With Examples Of When To Use Them

datapine

Table of Contents 1) What Is The Report Definition? 2) Top 14 Types Of Reports 3) What Does A Report Look Like? Businesses have been producing reports since, forever. This presents a problem for many modern organizations today as building reports can take from hours to days. What Is The Report Definition?

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Consolidate Your Software Spend Data For Better IT Budget Planning

Smart Data Collective

For the last four years, a majority of CIOs have reported that their IT budgets rose compared to the year prior. It’s vital to use efficient tools to measure, manage, and communicate the RoI on IT expenditure, so you can optimize budgets and raise transparency and trust towards IT departments and investments.

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Google Analytics Tutorial: 8 Valuable Tips To Hustle With Data!

Occam's Razor

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.

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