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What’s Lost When Data Systems Don’t Communicate

Harvard Business Review

In every industry, many large corporations have teams that help bridge outdated, disconnected systems, and databases. The problem is that running a company on disconnected or barely patched together systems affects employees at all levels.

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What is a Data Flow Diagram? Definition, Examples, and The Distinction with Flowchart

IdeaScale

What is a Data Flow Diagram? A Data Flow Diagram (DFD) is defined as a graphical representation of the flow of data within a system. It illustrates how data moves from input sources, through various processes, and finally to output destinations.

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You can't burn data

Jeffrey Phillips

As the concept of digital transformation takes root, you may frequently hear comparisons between data and oil. This comparison was strong enough to lead Wired magazine to define data as the new oil in a magazine article some years ago. Both data and oil are commodities, and exist to some degree in large volumes.

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Retail Omnichannel Success: All About the Data

Business and Tech

“The experience consumers expect is seamless and consistent,” says Steve Prebble, CEO of Appriss Retail , a retail software and data analysis company. “It’s But many retailers aren’t leveraging the data they collect. They’ve got siloed data, and the e-commerce and in-store teams aren’t always working together.”.

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LLMs in Production: Tooling, Process, and Team Structure

Speaker: Dr. Greg Loughnane and Chris Alexiuk

However, during development – and even more so once deployed to production – best practices for operating and improving generative AI applications are less understood.

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Why Data Breaches Spiked in 2023

Harvard Business Review

In spite of recent efforts to beef up cybersecurity, data breaches — in which hackers steal personal data — continue to increase year-on-year: there was a 20% increase in data breaches from 2022 to 2023. Fortunately, there are ways to reduce the impact of each of these factors.

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Data Innovation in Manufacturing Requires Integration

Tullio Siragusa

Data Innovation in Manufacturing Requires Integration. Technology that helps in connecting with suppliers for materials and managing product data with a digital platform makes the process faster, and more efficient. This accelerated people getting connected to cloud-based systems. Another thing that became important is data.

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Reaching Unreachable Candidates

Speaker: Patrick Dempsey and Andrew Erpelding of ZoomInfo

Find and connect with the right talent to fill roles fast with these tools: More data! Export results: Easily export candidate data (including contact info) to Excel, shared with colleagues to review or upload in bulk to a recruiter's applicant tracking system. What is ZoomInfo for Recruiters?

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The Beauty and Brains of Actionable Data: How to Go From Concept to Reality

Speaker: Dr. Joe Perez, Senior Systems Analyst at NC Dept. of Health & Human Services, and Chief Technology Officer at SolonTek

Do you have the vision to combine beauty with brains, thereby driving decisions with data? What value do you see in your data? Joe Perez will go over the five "Stages of the Spectrum" in action while discovering the difference between impact and influence, and how that difference plays into making data actionable.

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Monetizing Analytics Features: Why Data Visualizations Will Never Be Enough

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your embedded analytics. Brought to you by Logi Analytics.

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How to Transform Your Supply Chain: Digitization for Decision-Making

Speaker: Hannah Testani, CEO of Intelligent Audit

It’s common to run into data overload throughout this process, leading to disparate systems, information silos, and the inability to navigate external challenges. The future of the supply chain industry will take the emotion out of decision-making by leveraging innovative technology to transform raw data into actionable intelligence.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and promote omnichannel marketing.