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6 Azure Cost Optimization Best Practices You Should Follow With the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic, organizations shifted their entire business online, with enterprises embracing multi-cloud and hybrid cloud strategies to host their resources and capitalize on the unparalleled flexibility and scalability offered by cloud platforms. As cloud computing usage grows at an unprecedented rate, […]

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6 Major AI Use Cases in IT operations  Data volumes generated by IT infrastructure are increasing two-to-three fold every year. Gartner When Woolworths, Australia’s biggest supermarket chain, suffered a nationwide IT outage, the company was forced to shut checkouts, have shoppers leave their groceries and close stores. The 30-minute outage resulted in millions of dollars […]

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How Is Machine Learning Revolutionizing Supply Chain Management Supply chain management is a complex medley of processes in which even a slight lack of visibility or synchronization can lead to enormous losses and overheads. But with the recent developments in AI & machine learning, we can now harness historic and real-time supply chain data to […]

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5 Major Advanced Analytics Use Cases In The Oil And Gas Industry Data analytics has made a considerable impact on the oil and gas (O&G) industry be it in enhancing ROI or enabling safety measures.  According to a report by McKinsey, advanced analytics has yielded returns amounting 30-50 times the investment within a few months […]

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6 Popular Finance Business Processes You Can Automate With RPA Robotic process automation (RPA), despite its capability to automate a wide range of processes and bring about significant improvements in them, is currently more suitable for automating some business operations and not all. One of the primary steps while implementing Robotic Process Automation (RPA) in […]

9 Biggest Big Data Mistakes Every Company Should Avoid The success from Big Data and data analytics initiatives for a lot of traditional companies has been restricted to only small parts of their business. A huge impact through big data projects is something that not many have been able to achieve. Gartner predicted that only […]

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Responsible AI Practices Your Organization Should Follow For Better Trust AI’s transformative potential has been the prime mover for its widespread adoption among organizations across the globe and continues to be the utmost priority for business leaders. PwC’s research estimates that AI could contribute $15.7 trillion to the global economy by 2030, as a result […]

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Understanding Intelligent Process Automation: RPA, Machine Learning, NLG And Cognitive AI! Automation is undeniably one of the fastest-growing technologies out there today. Several organizations are already implementing AI and automation technologies like RPA, machine learning and cognitive AI to improve efficiency and simplify business workflows – which is a good thing. But the efficiency and […]

Building a Resilient Supply Chain Amid The COVID-19 Disruption Businesses and economies across the world have already faced a massive disruption due to COVID-19 and are preparing for the new normal. As the virus still continues to spread and with social distancing becoming mandatory in many major economies – it’s safe to say that the […]

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Microsoft and RPA: What Customers Should Know Grand View Research, an international market research and consulting company, reports that the RPA market, valued at $1.1bn in 2019, is expected to reach $10.7bn by 2027, expanding at a CAGR of 33.6%, making it the fastest growing enterprise technology.  With its ability to integrate with legacy systems […]

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How Can Enterprises Confront AI Risks Artificial Intelligence is undoubtedly the most revolutionary technology of the 21st century. There is hardly a month that goes by without the announcement of a new AI product or trend. McKinsey estimates AI to add an additional $13tn to the global economic output by 2030. Businesses are increasingly looking […]

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RPA For HR: Use Cases And Benefits As automation pervades into various business functions, human resource departments across industries however, are yet to witness a full-scale impact of automation. Activities in HR are painstakingly manual and repetitive — right from hiring an employee, maintaining day-to-day records to offboarding. Although necessary, these tasks consume a large […]

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RPA Vs BPM: Differences Every Enterprise Leader Should Know Business Process Management (BPM) and Robotic Process Automation (RPA)  have been an integral part of organizations’ digital transformation strategies as companies are continuously pushing the envelope to gain competitive advantage and optimize their business processes. BPM, often known as Business Process Automation (BPA), is an approach […]

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Big Data Analytics Use Cases For Industry 4.0 Industry 4.0 – What To Expect The first three industrial revolutions were a result of mechanization, electricity and IT, respectively. While the mechanization of the textile industry in the 18th century started the first industrial revolution, the mass production of goods due to electricity paved the way […]

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Envisioning The Work Life Of An Employee With An Autonomous Intranet Meet Nathan and Jennifer who recently joined as Marketing Managers in companies ABC Corp. and XYZ Corp. respectively. While Nathan was provided with a traditional intranet, Jennifer has access to a modern autonomous intranet powered by AI – just like Acuvate’s Mesh 3.0. In […]

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Measuring and Improving the Productivity of Knowledge Workers In organizations across the world, knowledge workers are one of the most important, expensive and fastest growing categories of employees. Coined by Peter Drucker in his book,  The Landmarks of Tomorrow (1959),  the term “knowledge worker” is defined as high-level workers who apply theoretical and analytical knowledge, […]

9 Critical Capabilities Of a Modern Enterprise Search In these unprecedented times where you don’t have your colleagues available on the next desk, searching for that one doc that you discussed on that one Zoom call that Friday is a challenge bigger than ever before. According to McKinsey, employees spend 1.8 hours every day on […]

How Intranets are Driving the Return to Workplace As countries across the globe are starting to ease up on COVID-19 restrictions, organizations are working harder than ever to facilitate a smooth transition for their employees as they start returning back to work. Securing their employees’ well being while ensuring productivity and continued efficiency is a […]

5 Key Challenges In Returning To The Workplace The post-COVID era is strewn with abundant challenges for organizations. As the new normal begins and leaders craft strategies to return to the workplace, they must strike a delicate balance between resuming standard practices on the one hand and embracing the realities of a transformed workplace on […]

5 Major Future of Work Trends Post COVID-19 The COVID-19 disruption has completely overhauled the entire business landscape by actively driving significant workplace transformations. Who would’ve predicted that most major companies will be making the bold move towards establishing remote work as a semi-permanent reality for their entire workforce? In the last couple of months, […]

Modern Intranets Enable A Central Information Hub. Here’s How. According to a report featured by the TechRepublic, an average employee switches between 35 job-critical applications more than 1,100 times every day. And an IDC report says that knowledge workers spend an average of 2.5 hours every week finding the information they need within their enterprises. […]

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Getting Ready for the Hybrid Workplace: The New Normal of Work The onset of the pandemic has revolutionized the way organizations are functioning. With offices sitting empty and households buzzing with the noise of back-to-back meetings and calls, what “normal” looks like has certainly taken a complete turn. Companies and employees are looking at the […]

Accessing Business Intelligence Dashboards Within An Intranet Accessing and keeping constant track of business KPIs and reports is hard. CxOs, VPs, managers and other senior management leaders need to continuously monitor different types of KPIs relevant to their role. But in order to access them, they have to undergo the tedious process of opening their […]

Return To Workplace Strategy:4 Key Considerations You Should Know The COVID-19 pandemic has pushed companies to facilitate work-from-home for their employees. What used to be a perk has become a necessity in today’s unprecedented times. 49% of the businesses surveyed by PwC say that they’re planning to make remote work a permanent option for their […]

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5 Best Microsoft PowerApps Use Cases With Examples The average cost to develop an application is 74% less with PowerApps  – Forrester Consulting Speaks volumes about the efficiency of PowerApps, doesn’t it? But before digging deeper into its nuances, it is imperative to understand, “What is Microsoft PowerApps?”. Microsoft PowerApps is a Low-Code Application Platform […]

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How Supply Chain Leaders Can Ensure Product Availability Amid The New Normal The rapid spread of COVID-19 has forced governments to institute stay-at-home and social distancing rules and order complete lockdowns and store closures. These have not only disrupted businesses but have also halted many of them for months. Consequently, the resulting revenue drop and […]

AI-Powered Autonomous Digital Intranet Why Mesh? Built With The Best Of Microsoft Technologies: Azure, Graph, LUIS and more! Boost Productivity & Collaboration Enhance Business Efficiency Increase Employee Engagement Central Information Hub to create a “connected” workforce. 14+ Years Experience in Microsoft & Digital workplace Technologies Knowledge Management Mesh 3.0 uses applied AI to create a […]

7 Key Considerations For Scaling AI In Your Enterprise CIOs and other C-Level executives are under tremendous pressure to adopt and scale AI to drive organization-wide efficiencies and gain competitive advantage. They understand that the failure to scale AI can stagnate their growth and put them out of business in the coming years. In spite […]

How To Build a Powerful Digital Workplace Strategy A recent report by the Digital Workplace Group suggests that more than 76% of surveyed organisations consider digital workplace initiatives to be either important or very important. While it is evident that most business leaders realize the need for a powerful digital workplace, only a few companies […]

How The Global Pandemic Disruption Is Driving AI Adoption COVID-19 has been instrumental in highlighting the importance of having the right technology systems in place to deal with unexpected market changes. As the pandemic sweeps across all quarters with an unreckoned force, enterprises are grappling to keep operations going while dealing with mounting pressure to […]

5 Intranet Best practices For A Modern workplace Improving employee engagement, ensuring productivity and creating personalized employee experiences by delivering the right content to the right person at the right time, on any device or channel is becoming a new business imperative. A survey featured by the Society for Human Resource Management states that most […]

8 Major Challenges faced by Data Scientists Organizations across the globe are looking to organize, process and unlock the value of the torrential amounts of data they generate and transform them into actionable and high value business insights. Hence, hiring data scientists – highly skilled professional data science experts, has become super critical. Today, there […]

7 Essential Elements of A Successful Digital Workplace In the last few years we’ve seen massive shifts in workplace trends. There has been an influx of tech-savvy millennials, unprecedented growth of SaaS applications, increased remote workforce and rapid emergence of AI technologies. Several such trends have not only changed how work gets done but also […]

What Does Power Platform Mean For Microsoft Customers? As an innovation leader, Microsoft rapidly updates its products and releases new ones to propel customers forward. Microsoft Power Platform, launched in October last year, has been the talk of the town lately. With Power Platform, the tech giant now offers a comprehensive product suite for cloud […]

How The COVID-19 Pandemic Will Change the Future of Work In the last few months, the COVID-19 crisis has turned both our personal and professional lives upside down. The relationships among individuals, businesses, employees, customers and societies in general have been rewired and are paving the way for what Deloittes calls as “the new social […]

How Augmented Data Management Improves The Productivity of Your Data Science Team According to a Forbes survey, 8 in 10 data scientists spend most of their time collecting and preparing data. If your data science team is bogged down with the tedious tasks of preparing data, it’s hard for them to focus on the strategic […]

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The Importance of Employee Productivity Analytics In a Modern Workplace The COVID-19 pandemic has forced business across the globe into the world’s largest work-from-home experiment. Enabling high productivity and performance among a workforce that is still adjusting to the concept of remote working has become super critical for sustainability. Employee productivity was always at the […]

Creating A Digital Supply Chain For The New Normal Supply Chain leaders across enterprises were already dealing with various issues in trying to do their best to achieve their service levels such as  End to End Supply Chain Visibility. Lack of Data in some cases to analyses why a particular SKU went out of stock. […]

What Is A Digital Experience Platform And Its Key Capabilities Organizations implement multiple and unique technologies and applications for the specialization they bring to the table to manage the various demands of their employees, partners, and customers. However, by increasingly deploying these diverse set of technologies, organizations will face: Increased technology silos  Information Overload Reduced […]

Scaling RPA Across Your Enterprise Organisations which have successfully deployed one or more pilot RPA projects are struggling to scale up and implement RPA for large scale projects. Although pilot implementations are necessary to test the waters with RPA’s functionality and benefits, they are however limited investments and do not prepare an organisation for a […]

Remote Work During Uncertain Times – How a Modern Intranet can Help With many economies in total lock-downs due to the COVID-19 pandemic, organizations have been forced to implement a remote working policy across the globe. This shift, while may be critical to reduce the spread of the virus, has however drastically affected business continuity. […]

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5 Definitive Use Cases For Advanced Analytics In The Banking Industry The banking industry has made significant progress over the years by leveraging data. We have observed that advanced analytics has emerged as one of the key disruption in the financial services industry. According to a McKinsey Global Institute study, AI and Machine Learning have […]

Why You Should Start Using AI for Knowledge Mining Are the number of applications in your enterprise growing at an unprecedented rate? Is the unstructured data from these apps and other external sources growing exponentially? Is this data easily understandable and searchable for your knowledge workers? Are you able to extract value from this data […]

How Low-Code Application Platforms Are Driving Agility In the New Normal? The novel coronavirus pandemic has brought about disruption at a scale that’s never been seen before. It has forced entire nations into extended lockdowns, forcing businesses to swiftly transform their operating models. As a result, businesses are increasingly adopting various digital transformation initiatives to […]

Why A Modern Intranet Needs High-Quality Metadata And How AI can Help A modern intranet will be at the core of a digital workplace. And search is arguably the most important feature of any intranet. But for any intranet search to succeed, it needs to have two critical components: good quality taxonomy and metadata. In […]

How Data Analytics Can Help Improve The Accuracy Of Financial Reporting According to PwC, traditional financial reporting methods have become time-consuming and cumbersome as they typically involve analyzing an organization’s hundreds and thousands of transactions, individually, to form conclusions. However, with data analytics, auditors are now able to streamline the analysis of an organization’s massive […]

Building A Modern SharePoint Intranet with The Best of Microsoft Technologies For the last two decades, SharePoint has been a common platform for most intranets used in large, medium and small enterprises. Since its launch in 2001, SharePoint has undergone significant transformations and upgrades and so did the intranets based on it. In our decade-long […]

How Is Pharmacovigilance Analytics Helping The Fight Against COVID-19 COVID-19 has brought the entire planet to an abrupt halt. The virus has left countries, irrespective of their wealth, struggling to take care of its sick and protect the healthy. This impact has been further exacerbated by the massive global recession that it has caused, whose […]

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10 Key Challenges Data Scientists Face in Machine Learning projects AI-driven, powered by AI, transforming with AI/ML, etc., are some taglines we have heard far too often from the products we are being sold every day. Everyone is chasing after the promised land of machine learning but so few fully understand it. And that is […]

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How Advanced Analytics Is Transforming Clinical Trials Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the world is grappling to flatten the curve so that the healthcare resources aren’t stretched too thin. We aren’t just betting on social isolation and eventual herd immunity to manage these unprecedented times. Scientists worldwide are working round the clock to come up with […]

How Is AI Helping In Creating An Intelligent Intranet Artificial intelligence today is impacting virtually every business process, function and technology. It is no longer possible for companies to stay competitive and relevant without adopting AI. Digital workplace in particular is one area where AI is making a significant impact and transforming the way work […]

Data Storytelling: What It Is And Why Data Leaders Should Adopt It Traditionally data scientists have used visually-appealing dashboards and visualizations to communicate their findings to business executives. But today many have realized that it is only by wrapping these visual artifacts into a powerful data story and narrative that they can influence business stakeholders […]

UiPath Vs Blue Prism: Comparison | Pros And Cons UiPath and Blue Prism are some of the key players in the RPA market today. In Gartner’s Customer Choice for 2019, UiPath has been rated no. 1 for Robotic Process Automation and  Blue Prism the third best. Although both UiPath and Blue Prism have cutting edge […]

How To Improve BI & Analytics Maturity In Your Organization According to a survey by Gartner, more than 87% of organizations are classified as having low Business Intelligence (BI) and Analytics maturity. This becomes a great impediment for organizations looking to improve the value of their data assets and exploit analytics. Spreadsheet-based analyses, personal data […]

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Microsoft’s Latest AI innovations In Office 365 Microsoft’s commitment to artificial intelligence is driven by the conviction that an AI-powered Office 365 can help the modern workforce overcome some major emerging challenges – exponential growth of data, increasing time demands, increased security threats, etc. In the last few years, Microsoft has introduced several new AI-driven […]

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7 Major Data Science Use Cases in Sales Enterprises are embracing data science and analytics across various functions to leverage data to reduce costs, improve efficiency and drive revenue.  With respect to sales, there are numerous use cases where data analytics can be applied. And many more use cases are fast emerging. According to a […]

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5 Major Use Cases of Graph Analytics The application of graph processing and graph databases will grow at 100% annually through 2022 – Gartner Data by itself has little to no value. Connecting data is essential to provide context, make sense of the underlying implications of data and for analytics to deliver value.  Business users across […]

Resolving Cultural Issues During Your Digital Transformation Journey While people and culture have been integral to a company’s success, they also have always been the biggest barriers to digital transformation, according to Gartner’s CIO Agenda. By failing to communicate the importance of digital transformation, organizations can face resistance by employees to change. A deep-rooted strategy […]

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The What, Why and How of Feature engineering Artificial intelligence and machine learning have pervaded every industry, yielding substantial returns to those invested in them. As Machine Learning technologies grow more powerful and proliferate, companies are taking it as their imperative to implement these technologies to gain a competitive edge. While machine learning involves training […]

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How Different CPG Companies Are Leveraging Big Data & Analytics for Marketing and Product Innovation Compared to businesses in other industries, the ones in the Consumer Goods (CG) industry spend a colossal amount of money on marketing and advertising. Advertising campaigns tend to have a major influence on the shopping and buying behaviors of consumers, […]

Virtual Water Cooler: Unique Potential Of Informal Communication Millennials, a significant share of our workforce, are costing enterprises up to $30 billion in turnover annually. However, this turnover rate halves for those operating in a high-trust culture. With more remote workers and distributed teams across many cultures and industries, businesses are conscious of this investment […]

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Essential Apps For Enterprises To Fight The COVID-19 Disruption It’s been almost a month since the COVID-19 pandemic started to disrupt the way we live and work. From taking tough decisions, postponing key initiatives, ensuring sustainability to adopting a remote work environment, the COVID-19 pandemic is something none of us expected. And unfortunately this crisis […]

How Big Data And AI Are Aiding The Fight Against Pandemics The world is currently living through one of the worst pandemics of the century. Since the first reported case in Wuhan, China, of the Coronavirus, or COVID-19 as it is now known, the virus has spread to 166 countries with the number of global […]

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Collaboration During Pandemics Through The Modern Digital Workplace The COVID-19 pandemic has become a huge global crisis and is growing at an exponential rate – with no signs of slowing down. As per recent reports, there are over 170,000+ confirmed across 100+ countries. And new cases are being reported every day! Governments and organizations are […]

RPA use cases in Finance and Accounting  The repetitive process-oriented nature of Accounting and Finance functions make them some of the most ideal candidates for RPA. Robotic Process Automation (RPA) in accounting and finance, harnesses the power of AI to automate high volume, repeatable and manual tasks such as recording transactions, report generation, data validation […]

A Quick Guide To Understanding Data Virtualization Enterprises today need faster access to real-time data to solve some of the most pressing business challenges and stay competitive. However, the number of data persistence options continue to grow due to today’s application ecosystem. These options include NoSQL databases, on-premise data warehouses, relational databases and so on.   […]

6 RPA Implementation Best Practices Application leaders are struggling to modernize legacy applications owing to the complexity and cost of making system updates. Consequently, organizations turn to manual processes and workarounds — leading to increased costs and processing errors.  Enterprises can now eliminate the manual processes between systems by RPA. The host of benefits that […]

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Why Synthetic Data Is Key For Your AI Project Introduction Without abundant data captured from diverse data streams by means of products/services, it can be difficult for companies to create a conducive environment for data scientists to train their machine learning algorithms. While giants like Google and Amazon don’t face issues when it comes to […]

8 Exciting Digital Workplace Trends To Watch For In 2020 As we forge into a new decade in 2020, we carry forward some of the most transformative digital technologies that have revolutionized the way we work. The outreach that technology today has and its capabilities in the workplace are so vast that artificial intelligence and […]

BI and Analytics CoE: What You Need To Know For Success Analytics enables your team to make confident decisions with actionable data, improving the bottom line for the entire organization. BI and analytics have proven their business value with their multiple use cases. Powerful analytics can give enterprises a headstart in the race of digital […]

The Amazing Benefits Of Voice-Enabled Business Intelligence With the advancements in natural language processing (NLP), Big Data, artificial intelligence (AI) and automation, businesses are replacing their traditional Business Intelligence (BI) systems with modern automated BI systems over the last few years. However, a low user adoption rate still poses a problem for business organizations while implementing a […]

Extracting Actionable Insights From Data: What You Need To Know While organizations today generate and capture a vast amount of raw data, they fail to effectively harness the potential business of this data. Extracting insights from raw data and making data-driven decisions has now become pertinent to organizations around the world. In fact, businesses driven […]

The Future of RPA: Trends To Watch For in 2020 and Beyond We are currently seeing RPA gain quick ground across several industries, be it accounting, finance, healthcare, CPG or insurance. Companies are embarking on combining RPA with traditional Business Process Management (BPM), machine learning, chatbots and NLP to:  Automate back-office processing and highly manual […]

Advanced Analytics For Insurance Industry: 6 Major Use Cases The insurance industry is a high-risk sector. Navigating through tricky claims procedures, pricing and promotion, mitigating risks, cash repression, natural perils, ensuring compliance are some of the toughest problems that pose the industry. Traditionally, Insurance companies have long been dependent on statistics and data to drive […]

How To Use Big Data For Improving Driver Safety Road traffic accidents claim more than 1.25 million lives a year, which costs most countries about 3% of their GDP and remains the leading cause of death of people between the ages of 15 and 29, a report by World Health Organization (WHO) claims. The WHO has undertaken […]

Microsoft Power BI: Pros And Cons Research and Markets suggests that the Global Business Intelligence and Analytics Software Market is poised to grow at a CAGR of around 7.1% to reach approximately $32.4 billion by 2025. While there are many BI tools in the market, Microsoft Power BI happens to be one of the leading solutions […]

The Role Of Data In A Successful Digital Transformation Journey McKinsey Global Institute’s reports suggest that data-driven organizations are 23 times more likely to acquire customers, six times as likely to retain customers, and 19 times as likely to be profitable as a result. Yet today, many companies neglect the potential of data and analytics. According to Gartner, […]

Top 10 CPG Industry Trends For 2020 In the past decade, the way people shop and engage with CPG brands has undergone an unprecedented change in the market. Enhancing products and offering a superior customer experience have been prime movers of CPG companies as customer demands are fast-changing. Purchasing has undergone a tectonic shift as […]

The Importance And Benefits Of Ensuring Data Quality In 2017, The Economist reported that data is the oil of the digital era and has dethroned oil as the most valuable resource in the world. But unlike oil, extracting, maneuvering, filtering, refining and storing the continuous stream of data from various internal and external sources is a herculean […]

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Accelerate Data Insights And ROI With Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics The dynamics of analytics services are witnessing a paradigm shift with the launch of the Azure Synapse Analytics platform. Azure Synapse, built on Azure SQL Data warehouse, is an evolved analytics service, intended to bridge the gap between data warehouses and data lakes. It offers […]

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Top 9 Best RPA Tools You Should Use In 2020 And Beyond When we say Robotic process automation (RPA) is one of the fastest growing technologies in the enterprise software market and one of the most widely adopted technologies among organizations, we’re NOT overstating! Let’s go over a few statistics: Gartner: RPA software revenue grew 63.1% […]

Top RPA Use Cases In Different Industries Over the course of the last few years, we have witnessed that companies that integrate Robotic Process Automation (RPA) into their back-end operations manage to improve their business metrics exponentially. RPA has helped our clients and many large organizations across industries to automate a myriad of repetitive tasks […]

Advanced Analytics In HR: Applications And Examples HR departments tend to generate a lot of data. However, in most organizations, HR leaders struggle to transform this data into meaningful insights. In fact, according to Gartner, only 21% of HR leaders believe their organizations are effective at using talent data to inform business decisions. However, the situation […]

Power BI: 5 Key AI Features You Should Start Using In a time where the average enterprise generates large amounts of data on a daily basis, unless the data paves a path to gleaning valuable insights, on its own, data does not hold much value. This is where Artificial Intelligence helps aid data analysis, exploration, […]

8 Emerging Business Intelligence Trends To Look For In 2020 And Beyond Over the last decade, the business intelligence world has transformed in several ways. Data exploded and was recognized as the new oil. Organizations understood the value of data and shifted from simple spreadsheets to interactive BI dashboards and visualizations. We also witnessed several […]

How Augmented Analytics Is Transforming Business Intelligence Despite the growing presence of data analytics, organizations haven’t managed to leverage its power to the fullest and this perhaps can be attributed to the failure of most data analytics initiatives. Gartner estimates that more than 85 percent of big data projects fail. Datasets over time have increasingly grown […]

7 Best Practices For Creating Better Business Intelligence Dashboards According to a recent BARC study, data visualization is one of the 20 biggest BI trends of 2019. And the primary mode of delivery for data visualization is through the creation of Business Intelligence dashboards. BI dashboards are used to put together visualizations of complex raw data, making […]

How Is Modern Integration Approach Driving The Future Of Digital Transformation Businesses are rapidly moving toward implementing digital transformation for gaining a standout presence in their market. Digital transformation looks lucrative for two of its core benefits- improvements in operational efficiency and reduction in the cost of doing business. According to a report by IDG, 89 […]

How Does RPA Look In Action – Manufacturing, Pharma And Retail Implementing Robotic Process Automation is pretty straightforward, provided you have a clear roadmap, goals, and vision. RPA is already delivering value in multiple industries, with early movers gaining early traction and benefits of the technology. McKinsey says that 45 percent of the jobs we do can […]

Key Essentials Of Modern Business Intelligence The Growing Importance of Data The global big data market is forecasted to grow to about 103 billion U.S. dollars by the year 2027 – Statista It’s quite evident that we currently live in a time where there is a constant influx of information. Data continuously flows from a plethora […]

How Is Prescriptive Analytics Transforming The Future Of Business And Decision-Making THE PRESCRIPTIVE ANALYTICS SOFTWARE MARKET WILL REACH $1.88 BILLION BY 2022 – GARTNER The analytics world is fast changing! As the need to leverage data across functions becomes more and more imperative, organizations are fast deploying modern analytics tools that not only predict the […]

The Role Of Leadership In Building A Culture Of Data In order to glean useful and actionable insights from organizational data, companies must have a structured data strategy and ensure that a culture of data is imbibed across the organization. However, changing a company’s culture is one of the most challenging parts of any data […]

Understanding Data Governance And Who Should Own It Introduction Data governance is the foundation for managing data efficiently and making the organization’s data reliable and trustworthy. The tenets of data governance are to establish methods, layout clear responsibilities and develop robust processes to standardize, protect and store data. The aim of data governance is to: […]

4 Challenges On The Road To Digital Transformation Over a decade, tectonic changes in the technology ecosystem have transformed the way enterprises work. With the advancement in technologies, the need to embrace digital transformation is no longer optional. How crucial is digital transformation to the modern business? A global study from IDT found that 80% of businesses […]

5 Tips For Legacy Modernization Through Integration A majority of the IT services spend today goes towards keeping the lights on- maintaining existing enterprise applications, keeping systems in shape, and taking care of software that is critical to the business- no matter how obsolete they get. Moving legacy systems to modern infrastructure look promising to […]

4 Emerging Technologies Impacting Today’s Digital Transformation Digital Transformation If you’ve yet to hear about this IT phenomenon, it’s likely you’re not among the 44 percent of businesses implementing a digital-first approach to business processes, operations, and customer engagement. ZDnet defines today’s digital transformation as, “using digital technologies to remake a process to become more efficient or […]

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5 Practical Ways For Creating A Successful Innovation Program Innovation practice has made some amazing progress over the last few years. Large enterprises are trying various programs to foster new innovations in an attempt to find the best way to change course for their big ships. Despite size or sector, businesses are striving to keep […]

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How Is NLP Transforming Business Intelligence? Language is the primary tool that humans use for communication. It acts as a medium to convey feelings, and information. When it comes to us humans, using language comes naturally as we are adept at understanding the ‘context’ and ‘meaning’ behind the words. But the same rule doesn’t apply […]

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Augmented Analytics – Everything You Need to Know Data Analytics – The Usability Problem Data Is the Oil and Analytics Is the Combustion Engine – Gartner Data analytics has become so popular among businesses that Forbes estimates that about 53 percent of mid to large scale companies have already adopted it, with the number expected to rise […]

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Top 5 Myths About Data Analytics You Should Stop Believing Data Analytics in Business According to Stastia, the global big data market is forecasted to grow to 103 billion U.S. dollars by 2027, more than double its expected market size in 2018. Implemented properly, analytics projects help in effectively capturing and analyzing data to glean insights […]

How Chatbots Can Help Create A Culture Of Analytics In Your Organization We currently live in an era where data is the oil that drives businesses of all sizes. Having data insights gives organizations a competitive edge and helps make well-informed decisions. Businesses today aggregate large sums of data involving customer profiles, sales and marketing […]

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Understanding The 5Vs Of Big Data In order to understand at what point ‘data’ transitions into being ‘big data’, and what its key elements are, it is imperative that we study the 5 Vs associated with it:  Velocity, Volume, Value, Variety, and Veracity. What Is Big Data “Big data” is a relatively modern field of […]

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The 2020 CIO: Predictions And Insights Digitalization has been a game-changer for CIOs. Long gone are the times when their role was confined to IT infrastructure maintenance. Gartner’s latest survey reveals that 95% of CIOs expect their jobs to change or be remixed due to digitalization and technology influx. In times when technology has spread its roots […]

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Top 9 Actionable Employee Engagement Ideas And Activities In today’s competitive business world employee engagement is an essential element in creating a positive work culture and a productive workforce. Organizations with engaged employees perform better than those without by whopping 202%. This is the reason employee engagement gets top precedence in the workplace strategy. When employees […]

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7 Top Business Intelligence Trends To Watch For In 2019 And Beyond More and more organizations have started to appreciate the value of business intelligence (BI) when it comes to their decision-making process. The past few years have seen BI systems go through different evolutions. Here are some BI trends that we believe will have […]

The What, Why And How Of Trade Promotion Forecasting Trade Promotions are a crucial part of the consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry. They are highly instrumental in driving sales, creating brand visibility, awareness and loyalty. As per a research carried out by Nielsen Holdings, more than 40% of trade promotions carried out are ineffective and do not […]

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5 Growth Strategies CPG Companies Should Follow In 2019 And Beyond The CPG or Consumer Packaged Goods industry is a massive one, globally. It also has a varied range of products in its purview, such as packaged foods to sanitary products to daily essentials. Reports indicate that the global consumer packaged goods sector is slated to be […]

6 Reasons Your Intranet Is Facing Low User Adoption Modern Digital Workplace Modern digital workplace has changed the face of communication and collaboration between employees working at various levels of an organization. The effective use of social networking, mobile, data and cloud technology has transformed every aspect of our personal and business lives, making them more connected by […]

Top 5 Predictive Analytics Use Cases In The Retail Industry We are all aware of the troves of data, retail businesses generate on a daily basis. However, this repository of critical data is worthless if it cannot be translated into valuable insights into the consumer’s minds or market trends. While all of the data is […]

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Trade Promotions: Strategies, Best Practices And Tools According to a study by Consumer Goods, 55% of the amount spent on trade promotions fail to grow the brand for both the manufacturer and the retailer. That’s why both the parties need to dig deeper into data, roll up their sleeves and start thinking out of the box […]

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Top 10 Features To Look In Any Idea Management Software In today’s competitive world, it’s no secret that organizations struggle to come up with competent and innovative solutions to facilitate growth and stay ahead in the game. One of the best ways of improving service, product or efficiency parameters is to tap into the effective […]

Check out Our Latest Article Top 8 Exciting Digital Workplace Trends for 2020! Read more Top 8 Digital Workplace Trends For 2019 As workplace demographics are transforming, employers struggle to match the evolving needs of a multi-generational workforce. New digital technologies have improved the way we analyze data, collaborate with employees, communicate and make decisions. […]

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Marketing MIX Modelling: Maximizing The Impact Of Marketing Spend Marketing teams in most CPG organizations mostly use primary and secondary research data available, to optimize their marketing strategy. While this is important, you may be missing an important piece of the puzzle if you’re not taking into consideration the effectiveness of your marketing outreach too. […]

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Top Retail Industry Trends To Watch For In 2019 Consumer demands and expectations have long dictated the changes that come to the retail landscape. To stay afloat and meet their increasing needs, the retail industry is constantly evolving and facing both new challenges as well as opportunities spurred by the emergence of new technologies. Today, […]

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How Innovation Management Contributes To The Success Of Digital Transformation Digital technologies are totally transforming the face of business. Adopting digital transformation is the only way to stay ahead of the competition in today’s digital era. Innovation management is one of the crucial contributors to digital transformation, along with a few other factors. It is a comprehensive […]

Millennial Engagement In The Workplace: 4 Actionable Tips According to Pew Research Center analysis, more than one-in-three American labour force participants (35%) are Millennials, making them the largest generation in the U.S. labour force. Organizations are developing into majority millennial teams, and predictions show millennials representing nearly 75 percent of the workforce by 2030. So it’s time for […]

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Get The Most Out Of Your Continuous Integration & Continous Delivery (CI/CD) Workflow Using Automation Devops DevOps is an evolving term that is becoming quite popular amongst IT organizations these days. It is a set of practices that automates the process between software development and IT teams. The process involves building, testing and releasing the […]

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Innovation Management: Importance, Ideas, And Examples In less than a decade, innovation management got recognized as one of the most powerful strategies an organization can use to streamline internal processes and boost their business productivity. Forrester also claims that 53% of global services decision-makers are investing in emerging innovation and idea management technologies to drive innovation. […]

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Top CPG Industry Trends To Watch For In 2019 Consumer Packaged Goods companies, or CPGs, exist in a dynamic market where today’s consumers have much higher expectations than their predecessors in terms of service as well as the quality of products. They know what they want and how to get it. With the rise of […]

5 Tips To Maximize Office 365 Adoption According to Cloud Adoption 2018 War report by Bitglass, the usage of Office 365 among organizations globally has reached over 56% in 2018, up from 34% in 2016. Office 365 is a rapidly growing technology platform for enabling collaboration. Because of the great features such as security, reliability, Microsoft […]

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Internal Communications: Strategy, Best Practices And Case Studies In today’s digital workplace, the foundation of every successful business is good internal communications. Good communication in the workplace isn’t just about giving and receiving clear instructions. It’s also about presenting how a business shares its voice, brand, and building a strong organizational culture where everyone is […]

The 2 Major Causes Of Out-Of-Stock Situations & How To Prevent Them Stockouts are consistently a dread for retailers and CPG companies. It isn’t just that they lead to lost sales, but they also increase operations costs and result in reduced customer satisfaction and loyalty. Customers obviously feel rather annoyed and disappointed when they can’t […]

Optimizing CPG Advertising Spend With Advanced Analytics Compared to organizations in other industries, CPG companies spend a colossal amount of money on marketing and advertising spend. In fact, in a report by the CMO Survey, it was discovered that CPG companies allocate the highest percentage of the total company budget for marketing. And this spend is divided […]

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The 5 Major Benefits Of Self-Service BI Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) systems were not very savvy in terms of providing the insights that employees were actually looking for. Every time they needed to ask questions about their data or generate new reports or update existing ones, they were forced to reach out to the IT […]

5 Amazing Business Benefits Of Data Visualization Data visualization, true to its name, is the representation of data in a pictorial or graphical format, which enables decision makers to understand complex concepts, as well as identify new trends and patterns with ease. If data visualization also features interactivity which is achieved by incorporating technology, then […]

6 Tips For Developing A Powerful Knowledge Management Strategy ACCORDING TO IDC RESEARCH, IN THE 2010-2020 DECADE, THE WORLD’S DATA WILL GROW BY 50X, I.E., FROM ABOUT 1ZB IN 2010 TO ABOUT 50ZB IN 2020. Every enterprise has vast stores of knowledge that are inaccessible and unleveraged. With the advanced growth and outspread of data, it […]

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9 Intranet Content Ideas To Boost User Adoption ‘Build a powerful intranet, and employees will start using it,’ is a common myth organizations tend to believe while making their investment in intranet software. Despite successful deployment, user adoption and user engagement continue to remain a challenge. For many organizations, an intranet is a place where […]

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The Future Of Intranets: Trends And Modern Features A highly adopted modern intranet acts as the gateway for a modern workplace. From employee collaboration to communications to knowledge management, intranets serve various business purposes. Just like any other technology, intranets need to be upgraded with modern features to retain employee usage and engagement. As someone […]

5 Trade Promotion Optimization Myths You Need To Stop Believing Deriving maximum returns from their trade investment is a much-desired aspiration for most Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) companies and a  well-intentioned agenda. However, their efforts seem to take a hit because of their reluctance to choose an automated and software-driven approach rather than a time […]

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3 Best Practices For Moving From TPM To TPO One of the biggest investments consumer goods (CPG) companies make is into trade promotion and for a good reason. It’s a highly competitive market and sales are closely tied to effective trade promotions. But while CPG companies are open to spending significant amount of revenues on […]

The Power Of Employee Recognition And How Intranets Can Help Are you planning for an employee recognition culture in your company? If not, you should consider implementing it. According to a recent article in Forbes, creating an employee recognition culture can increase employee retention by up to 31%. Now, that is a number worth investing in. […]

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The Importance Of Post Promotion Analysis And How To Get It Right Trade promotion optimization largely depends on an exhaustive understanding and analysis of event ROI.  Post-Event Analysis/ Post-Promotion Analysis determines the effectiveness of trade promotion spending. This analysis is crucial to understanding the profit and incremental volume that has been achieved for the trade dollars […]

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Applications Of Artificial Intelligence In The CPG Sector AI Technologies Will Be in Almost Every New Software Product by 2020 – Gartner Artificial Intelligence has consistently been a buzzword in the last few years. However, merely jumping on the bandwagon without a proper strategy in place may provide disastrous for organizations. Any value to be […]

8 Signs Your Intranet Needs An Upgrade Every day, we are introduced to new intranet platforms, and along with the brand new features and solutions. Opportunities to upgrade abound – but how much business sense does it even make? How can companies make well-informed decisions about if/when to upgrade after a release has been announced? Given […]

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The Importance Of Intranet Personalization And How Chatbots Can Help Intranet portals have come a long way with the features they offer – they enable employees to work efficiently by interacting with each other to enhance productivity. However, due to the lack of personalization in intranets, they are often met with dismal visit and adoption […]

How Weather Impacts Retail Sales & How Big Data Analytics Can Help The celebration is not only for festivals and seasons, it is also for Sales. As much as shelf life, product positioning, branding, and location, influence sales so do weather influence it. National Retail Federation has reported that jewelry sales in January are three times more […]

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A Quick Guide To Choosing A Trade Promotion Optimization Software 58 percent of respondents in a POI survey confirmed that they have invested in a trade promotion optimization software(TPO) for global markets and 88 percent of them have invested in multiple trade promotion optimization software to manage local markets too. These numbers indicate that a robust TPO solution […]

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How To Leverage Intranet Analytics To Measure Intranet Effectiveness The purpose of Intranet portals is to facilitate effective internal communications in order to help employees become more efficient. An organization’s intranet has a direct impact on its revenue in today’s digital workplace. Back in 2001, analysts used to compare intranets with telephony and described the […]

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Are You Ignoring The Achilles’ Heel Of GDPR Readiness? Just as soon as the deadline for GDPR was looming over enterprises, they swiftly took steps to prepare for the new regulation. If you are not yet completely aware of what GDPR espouses, then you should read all about it here. GDPR is a ground-breaking, forward-looking, user-friendly […]

Enterprise Innovation Management: How To Leverage Office 365 Instead Of Cots Idea Management Products? Importance of Innovation Management Ideas Are The Lifeblood Of Business. Capture Every Fleeting Idea And Drive For Change – Richard Branson Decentralized innovation management Organizations are quickly coming to the realization that their employees are a powerhouse for ideas. Therefore, they’re […]

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How To Build A High-Yield Retail Promotion MIX With Advanced Analytics Retailers always sit on a humongous heap of data. The problem here is not about quantity, it is about the quality of data and making data work to help them make quick decisions. Retailers and CPG manufacturers live in highly fragmented markets with thin […]

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A Guide For Mastering Intranet Content Management And Strategy Modern intranets require a culmination of evolving digital workplace requirements, embracing diversity and responding to ongoing changes in business and employee demands. Most packaged intranet solutions come with the best of communication and collaboration capabilities, focused primarily on enhancing employee experience. However, content management strategy remains the backbone […]

Illuminate Your Dark Data Gartner defines dark data as the information assets that organizations collect, process and store during regular business activities, but generally fail to use for other purposes. Across enterprises, a bottomless pit of dark data is getting built; and enterprises are not only running the risk of underutilized data, but also compliance […]

A Quick Guide To Measuring Trade Promotion Effectiveness & ROI “How to get the maximum bang for the buck?” is a common question retail and category managers struggle to answer with the implementation of trade promotions. It begins by identifying those metrics that can be used adaptively to optimize trade promotions in consequence of the […]

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Is Your Taxonomy Intelligent? Information taxonomy is a powerful tool that is often not given its due importance – reasons are abound for this. Here are the typical challenges in managing a taxonomy: Building the taxonomy The challenge begins right at the beginning. Information officers are often grappling with discovering the right taxonomy for their […]

Pos Data Analysis: How Can Retailers And Consumer Goods Companies Make The Most Of It Just to give a glimpse of the potential and magnitude of POS data, let me share something here. Walmart alone processes one million transactions every hour, feeding databases that exceed 2,500 terabytes – more than a hundred times the size of the […]

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How To Leverage AI To Improve Information Discovery In Your Enterprise Knowledge workers spend an average of 2.5 hours every week finding the information they need within their enterprises, says an IDC report. This translates to just over 30% of the total time each employee puts into work. That is 30% of the time NOT spent […]

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Creating And Driving A Culture Of Innovation In The Workplace We live in a modern business world which is competitive and creative than it was in the past. A more pragmatic system of promoting creativity in the workplace is to assemble an innovation team tasked to come up with ideas and improving a more distinctive […]

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Trade Promotion Optimization: Challenges And How AI Can Help 40% of CPG trade promotion spending doesn’t drive the desired results – Nielsen Holdings What is the retailer performance in a location for a specific time period and for a specific product? BOGO vs Half price – what should I apply and where? What is the […]

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Data Brokers: How Can Consumer Goods Companies Maximize ROI Consumer goods companies are increasingly realizing the value of leveraging data and driving well-informed decision making that is grounded in insights derived from data. Several thousands of dollars are invested into purchasing syndicated data from data brokers such as Nielsen, IRI, and others. However, this data […]

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The Digital Essentials Of An Employee Experience Strategy In the early 2000s, organizations were interested in employee satisfaction. Later around 2010 the interest is shifted to a popular concept of employee engagement. Today the focus is moving to a new dimension termed employee experience. Employee experience is the combination of culture, technology and physical environmental […]

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CPG Revenue Management Success: Using Advanced Analytics To Build Pricing And Promotion Strategies In recent years, a rapidly increasing number of consumer packaged-goods (CPG) companies and retailers have been successfully using big data and advanced analytics to enhance revenue management. For CPG companies, important decision-making primarily revolves around the following factors: Strategic pricing Marketing campaigns […]

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6 Easy Ways To Capture Ideas Form Employees Ideas Are The Lifeblood Of Business. Capture Every Fleeting Idea And Drive For Change – Richard Branson Organizations are constantly searching for new approaches and ways to enhance new product launches, address business challenges and reduce production costs. Businesses are looking out to solve complex business challenges […]

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How To Create A Convincing Intranet Business Case What Is A Business Case? A business case is a written or a verbal value proposition that is crafted to support the decision-making process and convince the concerned personnel to take action. At its simplest, a business case could be a spoken suggestion leading to immediate, measurable […]

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4 Best Practices For Designing A Winning CPG Pricing Strategy 20 million price points per year complicate the matter of pricing consumer packaged goods (CPG); with each price point exposed to the further influence of discount, rebate, and trade allowance categories, combined with customer-specific trade terms negotiated by powerful retailers. With so many variables it is […]

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The Amazing Benefits Of Enabling Enterprise Search In Your Intranet Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more Time – Jim Rohn The 21st century enterprise generates humongous amount of data and this data is stored in disparate enterprise applications – ESS, Productivity, LOB ERP etc. In […]

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Why Modern Intranets Are The Gateway For A Modern Workplace The advancements in latest technologies have impacted our lives in several ways – both personal and professional. They are revolutionizing the workplace as well. Productivity is the engine of human progress—it is what propels our society forward. The promise of technology is to help us […]

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5 Tips For Designing A Performant Intranet Site On SharePoint Online One of the most important non-functional requirements for successful implementation of an Intranet Portal is Performance. Studies by Microsoft has found that performance of Intranet Portals is key to adoption. Even a 500 milli-second increase in response time can potentially reduce the usage of […]

What Is An Idea Management Software & Why Your Business Needs One INNOVATION IS THE PROCESS OF TURNING IDEAS INTO MANUFACTURABLE AND MARKETABLE FORM — WATTS HUMPREY What Is Idea Management? According to Gartner, idea management is a structured process of generating, capturing, discussing and improving, organizing, evaluating and prioritizing valuable insight or alternative thinking that […]

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Best Practices For Developing SPFx Web Parts Since the release of SharePoint Framework, it is receiving a warm reception all around. SharePoint developers who are familiar with the development of server-side web parts are now increasingly adapting to this new Page and web part model framework. Microsoft is giving more and more capabilities with SharePoint […]

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A Buyer’s Guide To Choosing The Best Intranet Software The enterprise collaboration market is estimated to grow from USD 26.68 Billion in 2016 to USD 49.51 Billion by 2021, at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 13.2%. [Source: Markets and Markets] Investing in the modern digital workplace is bound to be a heavy investment. But, there […]

CPG Marketing & Sales: Harnessing Big Data & AI To Boost Revenue Compared to other industry firms, the ones in the CPG industry spend colossal amount of money on media buying and sales’ trade promotions. In fact, in a report by the The CMO Survey, it’s found that the CPG companies allocate the highest percentage of […]

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10 Must Have Modern Features In Your Intranet Digital workplace is both an essential goal and a crucial strategy for engaging and supporting employees as companies transform into digital businesses. The demand for high-performance teams is a crucial factor playing into today’s workplace dynamics. This development is influencing changes in how employees engage with each […]

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Why A CPG Firm’s Business Intelligence Needs AI INFORMATION IS THE OIL OF THE 21ST CENTURY, AND ANALYTICS IS THE COMBUSTION ENGINE – GARTNER This statement rings particularly true for CPG businesses that are typically spread across multiple locations – countries, states, cities, counties and so on. Added to this, CPG enterprises are defined by […]

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Advanced Analytics: 4 Simple Steps For Enterprise Adoption 86 Percent of Predictive Analytics Users Report Tangible Gains to Their Bottom Line – Forbes Technology Council “Data is the new Oil “ is a quote we often hear these days and regardless of the industry, it holds true for every organization. Currently organizations are capturing data […]

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A Buyer’s Guide To Choosing The Best Idea Management Software Ideas Are The Lifeblood Of Business. Capture Every Fleeting Idea And Drive For Change – Richard Branson Decentralized innovation management – What was once a luxury has become a necessity for most organizations. Executives are fast-realizing that idea generation includes, but is not limited to a […]

Check out Our Latest Article Top 8 Exciting Digital Workplace Trends for 2020! Read more 5 Digital Workplace Trends Shaping The Future Of Work In 2018 The rapid expansion of the technological landscape in the 21st century led to a constant influx of new technologies in the enterprise IT. In the past few years, the […]

Top 6 Business Intelligence Trends To Watch For In 2018 And Beyond Insight-driven decision making has always been a stern necessity for organizations to gain the competitive edge and stay relevant in the market. Even though the concept of Business Intelligence is not a new one, the constant evolution of these solutions resulted in a […]

Generate PDF Using String Template This blog details about using a StringTemplate library to generate PDF documents dynamically. Before we look into the implementation, let’s first understand what is all about StringTemplate’s. What Is StringTemplate? StringTemplate is a template engine library used for generating source code, web pages, emails, or any other formatted text output. It supports generating the templates […]

Improve Application Performance Using No-Miss Cache Application performance depends on multiple factors like database hits, loading elements, etc. Whenever any user executes a simple command in the application, it reaches out to the database and extract the data required. This increases the number of hits to the databases which in turn affects the overall cost […]

Why CPG Companies Need AI In Their Revenue Management Strategy Compared to other organizations from other industries, CPG businesses are typically more reliant on decision-making efficiency to remain competent. Since important decision-making mostly revolves around strategizing pricing, marketing campaigns, sales trade promotions, assortment optimization and inventory management, Revenue Growth Management (RGM) became a key aspect. […]

Important Use Cases Of AI-Powered Chatbots In The Banking Industry Today’s companies are racing towards artificial intelligence to make it a big part of their digital strategy. The rise of chatbots in finance and banking sectors is the latest wave of new technologies adopted. Particularly in the banking industry, it is changing the face of […]

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Infographic: Key Questions An AI-Powered Business Intelligence Can Answer For FMCG Executives Compared to other industry firms, the ones in the FMCG business generate colossal amounts of data every day. Even though most FMCG companies use some type of Business Intelligence or Traditional Analytics software, the insights provided by these tools are mostly shallow and […]

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4 Major BI Challenges For The FMCG Industry And How To Overcome Them Traditionally the FMCG industry is an extremely competitive business. The diverse, broad and hard-to-predict influencing factors in sales, marketing and supply chain make it an ever-changing field. In this environment of constant change, FMCG executives not only have to strategize for the […]

6 Reasons Why You Should Migrate To SharePoint Online Modern business users want tools that make them more productive and engaged. Office 365 is considered one such tool which is constantly evolving and expanding rapidly, moving towards Microsoft’s vision of the one-stop online-productivity hub. Office 365 is a cloud environment suite which comes with SharePoint […]

FMCG Sales Success: Using An Intelligent BI For Taking Faster And Accurate Decisions The success of sales executives, Irrespective of the industry they operate in, is heavily reliant on how well-informed they are and how they are able to use this information to take accurate, data-driven decisions in the shortest time possible. Gartner predicts that, […]

22 Experts Predict How Artificial Intelligence Will Impact the Enterprise Workplace Artificial Intelligence is the hottest buzzword in the tech industry. There have been a lot of predictions and speculations on how AI is going to take the world by storm. As someone who empowers enterprises with AI powered assistants, we asked 22 Artificial Intelligence experts […]

The Secret Solutions That Increased The Marketing ROI Of Fortune 100 Fmcg Companies By Over 3% Throughout the chapters of history, the target market of the FMCG industry is huge and constantly expanding. In a recent research, it is even found that the global FMCG market will grow at a CAGR of around 4% by 2020. With […]

The Future Of Sales Is Artificial Intelligence. Here’s Why. Needless to say, artificial intelligence is currently leading the conversation in the tech industry. From changing functionalities of a basic Google search to boosting adoption rates of a corporate intranet, AI technologies have been transforming every aspect of both our professional and personal lives. And most predictions […]

Enterprise AI: The Adoption Strategy & Practical Solutions A lot has been talked about how Artificial Intelligence is taking the world by storm. Every online technological publication started projecting AI technologies are going to change the future of various industries and enterprises forever. In a recent research by MIT Sloan Management Review, it was found that almost […]

Comparison Of Third Party Workflow Engines For SharePoint In 2016, Microsoft introduced Flow – which connects and synchronizes SharePoint lists with external apps. This year, in May, the company rolled out an updated for enhancement and extensions to SharePoint Libraries. This is in addition to what SharePoint provides out of the box, workflow capabilities, which […]

The What, Why And How Of An Effective Management Reporting System What Is a Management Reporting System? A management reporting system is a part of a management control system that provides business information. This information can be in the form of reports and/or statements. The system is designed to assist members of the management by […]

How Is AI Transforming Various Departments In An Enterprise? The expectation from the Artificial Intelligence technology is that it solves many problems for organizations. Artificial intelligence (AI) allows for an enterprise to efficiently meet their customers’ demands. The adoption of AI is on the rise and enterprises across the world are using the technology to […]

12 Ways Business Intelligence Can Help Your FMCG Organization Organizations generate colossal amounts of data every day. However, only a handful of them are able to harvest useful information. Why only a handful, because these organizations follow a business intelligence strategy that harnesses knowledge. Enterprises and organizations that are able to integrate a business intelligence […]

5 Tips For Developing An Effective BI Strategy The buzz word that we kept hearing last year was Business Intelligence. Much has been spoken about business intelligence – how it helps in creating new business opportunities, simplify business decisions, and avoid digital disruption. Whatever the requirement, business intelligence (BI) is key for enterprises to stay […]

Why Bots Are The Boost Sales Teams Need Machines having cognitive abilities of their own is a concept that has revolutionized industries. The revolution introduced us to the wonderful and intriguing world of Artificial Intelligence. AI has been pivotal for the computing industry for the past few years. The most vivid and apparent manifestation of […]

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The Role Of Chatbots In The Intranet Realizing the significance of a decentralized approach to sharing, accessing and updating organizational information, many companies have integrated intranets into their businesses. Successful intranets not only have an outstanding track record of increasing employee collaboration and engagement, they have also emerged as major contributors for effective knowledge management within […]

5 Important Metrics To Consider When Measuring The Effectiveness Of An Intranet In a desperate attempt to increase organizational work productivity and collaboration among employees, C-level executives and IT directors pour a lot of time and money in installing and maintaining an intranet. But in most cases, business intranets are often under-utilized and are not […]

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5 Benefits Of Decentralized Innovation Management The organizational framework of any company today can be of two types – centralized or decentralized. In a centralized organization, decisions regarding driving innovation within the company are usually taken by a single person (CEO, CTO, CIO etc.)  or a small group of board of directors or high-level executives. […]

A Quick Guide To Creating An Effective Conversational User Experience USER EXPERIENCE IS EVERYTHING, IT ALWAYS HAS BEEN BUT IT’S UNDERVALUED AND UNDERINVESTED IN – EVAN WILLIAMS In layman terms, UX can be defined as the process of improving user satisfaction of a product by enhancing its usability, accessibility, and pleasure provided while interaction. Whether it’s a website, […]

Master The Challenges Of Adoption And Collaboration Using Groups In Office 365 One of the main challenges for any technology is adoption, this is true especially in enterprises. Often a new technology replaces an existing technology or platform, which stakeholders are accustomed to. If the adoption strategy is not aligned, it results in losses both […]

BOTs – Why Should The Enterprises Bet On Them? In today’s world, enterprises have extensive IT infrastructure – from multiple farms on-premise to cloud tenants with various providers, which run many internal custom-built applications and ERP surround applications. Then there are other core applications like customer portals, CRM, etc. and finally the backbone – ERP. […]

Why Chatbots Are The Perfect Fit For Mode 2 Of Bimodal It? Bimodal IT or as Gartner describes it “the practice of managing two separate but coherent styles of work: one focused on predictability; the other on exploration” has been the buzzword among CIOs for the last three years. As enterprises around the world struggled to undergo […]

Power BI And The Shift To Self-Service Business Intelligence Since the early 1990’s – when the concept of data warehousing started, the IT sector witnessed some major changes. The rapid evolution of Business Intelligence over the past few years has drastically changed the way organizations collect, store, evaluate and analyze data. But before going any […]

3 Applications Of Chatbots In Field Sales Force “Time is what we want most but what we use worst” – William Penn Did you know that 66% of a sales rep’s time is spent not selling? Given how much you invest into your sales employees and processes, this is pretty bad news. Of course, you’re now […]

5 Ways AI Chatbots Can Revolutionize The Legal Industry Developments in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning have sparked the emergence of chatbots and their rapid adoption. Although the concept of an AI bot is still in its rudimentary phase, high-level executives across industries are keen on deploying chatbots for a myriad of activities, like boosting employee work […]

Why CIOS Should Consider Microsoft Bot Framework To Build Enterprise Bots Chatbots will fundamentally revolutionize how computing is experienced by everybody. – Satya Nadella Now, to order from 1-800-flowers, you never have to dial 1800 again! – Mark Zuckerberg in Facebook 2016 F8 Conference. Since mid 2016, chatbots have consistently been talked about. This is especially true in […]

An Introduction To The Ultimate Idea Management Solution – Wave In today’s competitive world, it is essential for organizations to come up with competent and innovative solutions to facilitate growth. The best way to do this is to tap into the ideas of their employees. Simultaneously, it is vital for the organizations to ensure that […]

Creating Supply Chain Symphony With SCOR Watching a conductor sway his baton to embellish the music is rather satisfying. The sound produced by the various sections of the orchestra moves people to tears. These tears are of happiness though, unlike the ones you would have when you are forced to experience a supply chain gone […]

How To Drive Innovation From Within The Organization EVERYTHING BEGINS WITH AN IDEA – EARL NIGHTINGALE Any business, whether it’s a startup or an SMB or an MNC can easily relate to the above quote. Over the past few decades, innovation and fresh idea generation have become a necessity. In order to sustain cut throat […]

How AI Bots Can Revolutionize Enterprise Helpdesk? Computers are everywhere. Whether it’s at your home, office, bank, hospital etc., computers have played an integral part in the smooth functioning of various activities for multiple decades now. In an enterprise, computers are an essential for completing any task in an organized and timely manner. But just […]

What Potential Do Chatbots Hold For The Enterprise? Over the past few years, a lot of buzz has been generated around terms such as ‘chat bots,’ ‘smart personal assistants,’ ‘artificial intelligence,’ etc. Whether it is Amazon’s ‘ Alexa ‘ or Apple’s ‘Siri’ or google’s ‘Assistant,’ all  major companies have started incorporating their own intelligent assistants […]

Top 4 Roadblocks For Office 365 Adoption Work smarter, not harder. This seemed to be the mantra which catapulted Office 365 straight to its widespread adoption across various organizations. Office 365, which was first introduced in 2011, as an answer to Google Apps, brought together all existing Microsoft’s services onto the cloud. Office 365 accomplishes […]

World’s First Bots On Skype For Business! With the steady growth of chatbots in the B2C space, platforms like Skype, Facebook, Kik, Line etc., have all started supporting chatbots. The launch of the Microsoft Bot Framework provided a streamlined process for the development of bots on several such platforms. But when it comes to the […]

5 Things We Can Learn From Successful Intranets We have come a long way from the first intranet software solutions we were introduced to over two decades ago, which were essentially static websites which allowed employees to access information from a centralized point. Intranets, at this point, were nothing more than a HTML page on […]

Self Service BI – 5 Lessons From The Supermarkets From fast food chains to supermarket, the world had been using more self-service. It is there in the corporate too in the form of the many Employee Self Service applications. Self-service BI however is just catching up. While doing this weekend’s grocery shop, I saw some […]

Not WYSIWYG, Customers Want WYWIWYG (What You Want Is What Is You Get) The “Build or Buy” Problem IT Department in organizations have moved up the value chain to become business enabling functions. This means IT has to align with Business by providing quick (faster time to market) solutions along with being flexible. Having said […]

Bridging the Gap Between Social and Enterprise Analytics After most companies decided to standardize their transaction systems and implemented ERP’s, huge amount of data got captured in the organization. Unfortunately data alone served limited purpose to take the right decisions at the right time to improve Business. The huge amount of data did not mean […]

Maturing From Customer-Vendor To Partners And Why? In the age of Uber, AirBnB and other technologies enabling customers & vendors to find each other, doing business has become a micro-transaction. This is great for the B2C business (I hire Uber every day and I simply love it). But when it comes to B2B, it’s a […]

5 Ways It Can Drive Employee Engagement Employee engagement has usually been an HR thing. But things seem to be changing. By 2020 Gartner predicts, 20% of Organizations will include employee engagement improvement as a shared performance objective for HR and IT. So how is it that IT can help with employee engagement? In my […]

Engage People Through Innovation Management Employee engagement has been a big driver in many organizations large and small. In Deloitte’s 2016 Global Human Capital Trends report, based on more than 7,000 responses in over 130 countries around the world, 85% respondents rated Engagement as Very Important/Important. Studies have shown how employee engagement benefits organization productivity. […]

How Business Users Can Maximize ROI From MS BI In the last blog we have explained about Microsoft BI Eco system and when to use what. Now the next conundrum is about the many reporting tools in the Microsoft BI eco system and how and when to use which reporting Tool? It can be best […]

All About Microsoft BI – Options, Objectives and Licensing. At Acuvate we have been having discussions with many customers about the Microsoft BI system. There are two main aspects which comes in this conversation. 1. I thought SQL Server is a Database, Is the ETL Component – SSIS a separate product which I need to […]

POWER BI – WHY, WHERE AND WHEN? Power BI is the new buzz word in the Microsoft world with good visualizations and Natural Language Query like “Show Sales by Products where city is London” giving chart showing the results. While many of the customers are really impressed with this capabilities they are confused where to use […]