Posts Tagged ‘data management’
How to Choose The Right Data Platform That’ll Meet Your Needs
The business world today runs on data. Regardless of your industry or organization size, data powers strategic decision-making, reveals hidden waste generators eating into your bottom line, and unearths new revenue streams. However, data alone can’t execute all the above. Your business must gather tech solutions that connect all the relevant data sources. You’ll need…
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Data Lifecycle Management: A Simple and Complete Explanation
Enterprise data can no longer be thought of as separate chunks of information. Today, data is not only everywhere, but it’s also interconnected. At any given organization, the same dataset passes through multiple hands and is used to make informed decisions across departments. Enterprise data has evolved into a homogenous living thing that flows throughout…
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6 Sales Reporting Challenges & ClicData’s Solutions
The importance of sales reports to a sales team can’t be understated. They help managers summarize and track sales performance, plan sales strategies, recognize trends, and adjust the sales cycle as needed. Of course, like other reports, the more accurate the sales report is and the more extensive its data resources, the more profoundly it…
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Choosing the right cloud data warehouse provider: A shopper’s guide
Thinking about switching cloud data warehouse providers? Or looking for your first-ever cloud service provider? This savvy little guide will walk you through the different data warehouse options on the market – both on-premise and cloud, plus give you tips about the right questions to ask, and what red flags to watch out for and…
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These 7 Recruitment Metrics Will Help You Create a Better Hiring Process
Recruitment is a costly yet necessary process that every business must go through to attract the best workers for the job. The problem is that it’s so easy to lose track of spending, waste resources, and lack the clarity you need when you’re on the hunt for new talent for your brand. Fortunately, there is…
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Calculating your Facebook Ads ROI For Ecommerce with ClicData
Facebook is the largest social media site globally, making Facebook Ads a powerful marketing tool for your products. With almost 3 billion registered users, Facebook lets you interact with customers, build your brand identity, run ads, and increase your reach. As an intuitive and easy-to-use platform, Facebook readily meets the needs of small firms and big…
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Dealing with Dates in Data Analytics
Those of us that do not have to deal with time zones, date formats, and leap years, and the like might wonder what the big deal is about working with dates. I mean, a date and time is a date and time, right? December 31, 2022, at midnight is a Friday. It’s New Year’s Eve.…
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Common Data Issues & Solving Them With ClicData
What sets ClicData apart is the power it gives you to do two valuable things: pull your data together into one clean data source and build efficient dashboards in a very short time. The platform gives you tools to tidy up your data. You can define transformations on the data that run any time that…
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Data Silos: The Achilles Heel of Large Organizations
Quick question: How do you determine strategic choices for your business? While qualitative decision-making is a viable approach, you also want to have an understanding of the underlying numbers to help you make the most informed and optimal choice. In the modern age, companies are unable to come up with decisions without relying on accurately…
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5 Ways to Use Business Intelligence Tools to Stay Competitive In 2021
With 2021 upon us, businesses are looking for new ways to stay competitive. One of the best ways to compete is by using business intelligence tools. In simple words, business intelligence refers to the management of a specific subset of data that enables companies to generate meaningful insights. Data is king in the world of…
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Why Spreadsheets Aren’t Enough For Your Business Data
I love Excel. I just wanted to state this outright. I would like to think that I use it the right way and that I am nearly an expert in most things Excel. I think Excel can be used in many circumstances and scenarios that require a very fluid, ad hoc analysis. The problem is…
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How Much Data Is Too Much Data For Your Organization?
With access to unprecedented volumes of data, organizations can perform endless analyses and get innumerable insights to base decisions on. But at some point, it’s valuable to step back and consider whether having so much data is serving the needs of your organization or costing you in ways that you’re not recognizing. Here are three…
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How To Turn Your Data Into Information
At ClicData we try to keep things simple. Like many others, we do frequently use terms such as metrics, measures, dimensions, and facts, but we find that there can be a vast difference in their meaning from one person to the next. We hold a vision to make the field of data information analysis and…
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How to Manage Data Within an Agile Organization
Good data governance makes quality information timely available throughout the lifecycle of the organization. This should include aspects of availability, usability, consistency, data integrity, and data security. Governance should, however, adapt data processes to the needs of the parent agile organization. That said, effective data management does not exist outside the rest of the IT…
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Dreaming of automating your projects reporting?
Project management comes with a myriad of challenges, as most know. One of the biggest problems in the sphere is reporting. Reports are an integral piece of project management – it keeps everyone aware of time spent, deadlines and overall progress and is an essential tool for communication between parties. However, article after article, such…
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