Information Technology
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The Best ETL Tools For Managing Your BI Data
Ready to upgrade your ETL tool? We’ve got the best extract, transform, and load (ETL) software for managing your BI data. The two types of ETL tools ETL tool updates evolve as quickly as you can produce your data, so the ETL market has changed considerably over the past 10 years. The first ETL tools…
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Best Tools for Supply Chain Security
Between January 2020 and July 2021, 32 percent of cyberattacks that targeted supply chain businesses resulted in data theft and breaches of internal processes. Supply chain security failures can cost businesses proprietary information, customer trust, and even downtime leading to loss of revenue. To better protect your business, choose supply chain management (SCM) software with…
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How Supply Chains Can Improve Demand Forecasting
Demand forecasting is one of the most difficult parts of supply chain management, especially when you consider the number of factors that can affect it. Natural disasters, product shortages or delays (like when a cargo ship gets stuck in the Suez Canal), and, of course, a global pandemic can impact an organization’s supply chain. Luckily,…
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Maximize Machine Learning With Google Analytics 4
Google Analytics 4 (GA4) represents a major step forward for the Google Analytics platform in a variety of ways. GA4 unifies tracking for organizations across their websites, apps, and any other digital experiences. GA4 equips organizations to manage their analytics deployment in a more privacy-safe manner, thanks to a raft of new features that provide…
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Top 7 Pain Points for Software Buyers (and How to Address Them)
Purchasing new software can be a difficult process, especially when considering the differing pain points of each software option. The goal is to research and find software that avoids pain points and works more efficiently than the previous software or system in place. Start with a list When beginning a software search, it is best…
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What Is Vendor Risk Management Software & Do You Need It?
Vendor risk management (VRM) monitors and reduces the risks that arise when dealing with vendors, service providers, and IT suppliers. VRM software is focused on making sure vendors and service providers do not cause business disruptions or damage. It can give organizations the ability to monitor their vendor relationships over time, identify new risks as…
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What Is Adaptive Case Management & How Will It Change BPM?
Management methods are constantly evolving as the business landscape grows. New technology has led to recent advancements in team management and the development of various tactics for tackling different workflows. Business process management (BPM) is used to identify adjustments that need to be made to improve workforce processes via data analysis. This method has been…
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A Complete Guide to Gamification Design
This is a guest post from Victor Manrique of Epic Win Blog. Gamification is a design experience to happiness and motivation. We should never forget that Design is Gamification’s biggest challenge and where all its power lies, like a double-edged sword. So design matters, and it is the difference between another PBL system and a…
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It’s Not All Fun and Games; Potential Risks of Gamification
Gamification is a powerful business strategy that can provide useful information and yield incredible returns. Through game dynamics, it can dramatically increase motivation for your employees or customers. Although gamification strategies can deliver enormous gains for your business, there are risks and potential negative consequences. It is extremely important that you thoroughly research your customers,…
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5 Reasons Gamification Projects Fail
When executed properly, gamification programs are powerful engagement tools. That said, the vast majority of these programs are not succeeding. According to Gartner, 70 percent of the world’s top 2,000 companies will implement gamified systems by 2014, but 80 percent of them will fail.1 If you want your company’s gamification program to succeed, you need…
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Preventing Customer Churn with Business Intelligence Software
While many applications of business intelligence require substantial technical expertise and resources, use cases do exist that organizations can apply right away. Measuring and preventing churn, or customer attrition, is perhaps the most notable of these applications. Using churn as a business metric isn’t new. Many large service sector companies such as wireless phone carriers,…
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Better Than a Compass: 4 Geolocation CRM Apps for Salespeople
Geolocation (essentially pinpointing an item or person’s location) is still a new technology, but it’s already shaping the marketplace in far-reaching ways. Foursquare, one prominent app that relies on geolocation, now has over 45 million mobile users, and Twitter has recently added location options, including the ability to search tweets by location. Marketers are experimenting…
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Four Salesforce Gamification Apps
Maybe you’ve heard the news about gamification — how it’s spreading like wildfire among thought leaders and developers, how it turns the mundane into the engaging, or how it’s reshaping many aspects of the way people do business in the twenty-first century. Prominent companies such as Nike, T-Mobile, MLB, Ford, and eBay have already launched…
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Does Your Company Need an Integrated Business Solution?
This is a guest post from Henrik Petersen, the Sales & Marketing Director at Deskera. Peterson has more than 20 years of experience in the enterprise software industry and has worked for Navision Software, Microsoft, and Seagate in the Asia Pacific region. ____ If you’re like most fast-growing organizations, you automated your business processes one-by-one…
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7 Dropbox Alternatives for Business Cloud Storage
Whether you’re a small startup or enterprise, everyone in your business should have secure access to necessary documents and files from wherever they work. In many cases, that means using a private cloud storage and collaboration tool. Dropbox been a household name and business go-to for cloud file storage, but it’s not the only option.…