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Feed: The Connector by Workato. Author: Jon Gitlin; Sales reps only spend 35% of their time on selling-related activities. The rest of it is likely occupied by repetitive and unproductive tasks, like data entry, searching for information across applications, etc. You can prevent your sales team from performing these time-intensive and less fruitful activities by using sales automation. In the process, you’ll be rewarded with a shorter sales cycle, a higher close rate, and better all-around experiences for your prospects, customers, and employees. So how, exactly, can you perform sales automation? And what are all the benefits you can expect ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. With this new release of the AWS Toolkit for JetBrains, customers can use federated credentials, MFA and AWS Single Sign-On (AWS SSO) to connect their IDEs to AWS. Using AWS SSO, your organization's users can sign in to Active Directory, a built-in AWS SSO directory, or another external identity provider (IdP) connected to AWS SSO and get mapped to an AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) role. Regardless of which IdP you use, AWS SSO abstracts those distinctions away, and they all work with the AWS Toolkit. For example, you can connect Microsoft Azure AD/Okta as explained ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . Starting this month, we have merged the Power BI Desktop, Service and Mobile blogs, so there is one overview of everything that is new in this month. Many thanks to Sujata and Nikhil for owning the Desktop and Service/Mobile blogs! We are planning several other changes to the blog, so stay tuned. After 10 years, support for Windows 7 ended on January 14, 2020. In line with this, we will be stopping support for Power BI Desktop on Windows 7 on Jan 31st 2021. After that, Power BI Desktop ... Read More

Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. In the world we live in today, companies need to quickly react to change—and to anticipate it. Customers tell us that their reliance on data has never been greater than what it is today. To improve your decision-making, you have two types of data transformation needs: data agility, the speed at which data turns into insights, and data transparency, the need to present insights to decision makers. Going forward, we expect data transformation projects to become a centerpiece in every organization, big or small.Furthermore, applications are migrating to the cloud faster than ever. Applications need ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Mike Gilliland. The practice of business forecasting falls well short of the potential exhibited in academic research and forecasting competitions. Chris Chatfield* noted this in a 1986 editorial in the International Journal of Forecasting, where he called on statisticians to find a better way of communicating the better use of existing methods to practitioners. Fast forward to 2000, when Michael Lawrence** penned another editorial in the IJF, lamenting the lack of progress toward Chatfield's goal, and deploring the lack of research examining the causes. More recently, Morlidge's studies (cited frequently in this blog), show businesses in ... Read More

Feed: Teradata Blog. If you’re responsible for data strategy in a large organization, there’s a good chance you’ve got a mess on your hands. In recent years, most organizations have let their discipline for deploying enterprise data slip a bit. Some have let it slip a lot. In their rush to deploy valuable applications, project teams developed solutions in relative isolation, collecting the data they need for their own purposes, missing the opportunity to reuse data across applications and analytic use cases. On top of this, well-intentioned “self-service” initiatives have often spun out of control. What were supposed to be ... Read More

Feed: CIO. Author: . ServiceNow’s latest code release, “Paris,” includes applications to help banks issue credit cards and to enable telcos to manage services and network performance, showing how serious the company is about organizing workflows across the enterprise, not just in the IT department.IT service management (ITSM) was just one of many applications ServiceNow’s founder planned to run on the enterprise service management (ESM) platform he built, but for years it has been the one that has defined the company.With its latest software update, however, ServiceNow’s enterprise ambitions are coming into focus.“We are inventing the employee experience, the customer ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Poornima Natarajan. The Microsoft Azure Lighthouse product group is excited to launch a blog series covering areas in Azure Lighthouse where we are investing to make our service provider partners and enterprise customers successful with Azure. Our first blog in this series covers a top area of consideration for companies worldwide—Security with focus on how Azure Lighthouse can be used alongside Microsoft’s Azure Sentinel service to build an efficient and scalable security practice. Today, organizations of all sizes are looking to reduce costs, complexity, and gain efficiencies in their security operations. As cloud security solutions ... Read More

Feed: Radar. Author: Alex Castrounis. AI Benefits and Stakeholders AI is a field where value, in the form of outcomes and their resulting benefits, is created by machines exhibiting the ability to learn and “understand,” and to use the knowledge learned to carry out tasks or achieve goals. AI-generated benefits can be realized by defining and achieving appropriate goals. These goals depend on who the stakeholder is; in other words, the person or company receiving the benefits. There are three potential stakeholders for AI applications, with a single application often involving all three. They are business stakeholders, customers, and users ... Read More

Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. As Amazon EMR continues its widespread adoption, it’s important to enforce separation of duties using role-based access when submitting your hive jobs on EMR clusters in multi-tenant environments. In this post, we walk through the steps to set up authentication for Hive using Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) and Microsoft Active Directory Domain Controller.Solution overview In a multi-tenant environment, it’s critical to enforce role-based access when submitting Hive jobs to an EMR cluster. Although you may add Hive steps to an existing cluster, such a setup doesn’t enforce role-based access, because Amazon EMR steps are ... Read More