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Channel: Analytics (page 9)
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On Our Radar: Bounce Exchange
We continue our series on companies to watch today with Bounce Exchange, a web analytics firm that specializes in behavioral automation. Year founded: 2010 Founders: Ryan Urban and Cole Sharp. Founders backgrounds: Urban is a former director of acquisition at Bonobos and Brickhouse Security. He served on
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Look at the Data, Not the Numbers
A business recently showed me its numbers to prove how fast it was growing. Like any business, its aim was to demonstrate its health and vigor. While the numbers looked impressive, they didn’t tell me the whole story. Having more customers is great.
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Stop Taking Your Database Administrators for Granted
Database administrators (DBA) are the forgotten men (and women) of the modern IT landscape. We talk all the time about C-level executives and the importance of having their buy-in and aligning with their objectives. We talk about making sure we’re meeting the needs of each specific line of business.
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Gartner Rates These Companies the Best in Advanced Analytics
Brace yourself: the Gartner analysts who penned this year’s Advanced Analytics Platforms Magic Quadrant (MQ) expect companies that compete using advanced analytics and proprietary algorithms will disrupt entire industries by 2018.
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Tackling Silent Customer Attrition with Analytics
Picture the ideal customer: a frequent shopper, highly engaged and loyal. But most business can tell you even the “ideal” customer can be fickle. She'll turn away (or be lured away) in an instant, without any warning.
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SAP Brings Advanced Analytics to More Fingertips, Buys Roambi
Analytics are all about the end user in the digital age. Providing decision makers with real time intelligence on demand and on the spot is a must. Analysts at Gartner pretty much said as much in this year’s Magic Quadrant for Business and Intelligence Platforms report. So it’s not
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Gartner Shakes-Up Its BI and Analytics Platforms MQ
Last year when we looked Gartner’s Magic Quadrant (MQ) for Business Intelligence and Analytics it held 24 vendors, which by any measure is a crowd. Though the number hasn’t slimmed since then, new vendors have been added and others are no longer included.
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The Denver Broncos' Analytics Game
The longtime Colorado resident and Broncos fan in me watched Super Bowl 50 with great interest on Sunday. The longtime analytics industry veteran in me did the same.
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Beyonce.com Can't Hang With #SuperBowl Traffic Blitz
The Denver Broncos weren’t the only ones delivering an overwhelming blitz during Sunday’s Super Bowl.
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Pollster Larry Rosin Talks Projections & Predictions
Larry Rosin, co-founder and president of global media research and election polling firm, Edison Research, has always checked the “extremely certain” box when asked about his career direction.
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Power BI Is Optimized for All Windows 10 Screens
By Virginia Backaitis, Scott M. Fulton III and Erika Morphy As a Windows 10 universal app, Power BI is optimized to run on every Windows 10 screen.
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Microsoft: Improving Customer Experience Analytics
Tech companies are like athletes. Both look to increase their capabilities, but the outcome from their effort does not always lead to straight to a goal. Take Microsoft. Already iconic for its Office software suite, Microsoft has been a hit and miss in some of its other forays.
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Data Science to the Rescue?
Data science promises us professionals who understand how to make data useful. But do we know what it takes to be a data scientist and if so, do we know how to teach those skills to others? As a concept, data science isn’t new, but our interest in it has
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