Photo by Hunters Race on Unsplash In a recent data analytics consultation, I got asked how data analytics and data science could help my clients 7-8 figure business. We discussed what their business goals were and what tools they were currently using. Based on that we set up the next steps to start aligning some…
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Data is continuing to prove to be a valuable asset for businesses of all sizes. I say that both from the fact that consulting firms like McKinsey have found that in their research companies that are using AI and analytics can attribute 20% of their earnings to it. Similarly, I have been able to consult for…
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The CTO’s Focus Of The Week The focus for this week is streaming data solutions and analytics. Streaming data is far from new. Kafka and other solutions have existed well over a decade. However, most of these were often very complex to implement and weren’t always approachable. With that in mind, several companies have tried…
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Photo by Kaleidico on Unsplash Integrating data into strategy is proving to be a differentiator for businesses of all sizes. The cliche term “Data-Driven” is for more than just a billion-dollar tech company. Companies like DiscoverOrg and MVF are using data to help drive their decisions and create better products. Even smaller companies are finding…
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Photo by bruce mars on Unsplash Technology has been speeding forward through 2020. The impacts of Covid have only sped up the adoption of change for companies. Companies small and big, start-ups and corporations have been pushed to innovate and improve processes. For example, small, medium, and large companies are migrating to the cloud to…
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.Photo by Kelly Sikkema on Unsplash As 2020 has comes to a close, we wanted to take a moment to reflect on all the changes in technology as well as look to see where things are going. Whether you are looking at start-ups and their IPOs, improvements in technology or you paid attention to Amazon Re:Invent.…
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If you’re a small business or start-up, you’re probably reading articles about companies using data science, data analytics, and machine learning to increase their profits and reduce their costs. In fact, Mckinsey just came out with a study that found that the companies they survey could attribute 20% of their bottom line to AI implementations. All…
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Photo by Stephen Phillips – Hostreviews.co.uk on Unsplash You may have recently invested in Panoply to improve your team’s ability to access data. Panoply’s automated ELT process makes it really easy to integrate data from multiple sources including Salesforce, Workday, Asana, QuickBooks, and so many other tools into your company’s data warehouse. The simple GUI…
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When your team needs to create dashboards and metrics using data from external sources like Salesforce and MySQL, they face a difficult problem. How do they get all their data into one place in order to merge it all together? Traditionally you would need to have a large team of data engineers to connect to…
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The rise in self-service analytics is a significant selling point for data warehousing, automatic data integrations, and drag and drop dashboards. In fact, in 2020, the largest software IPO this year was a data warehousing company called Snowflake. The question is how do you get your data from external application data sources into a data…
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