Discover the best free alternatives to Microsoft Excel: powerful, feature-packed solutions to help you work smarter and faster with the ability to create comprehensive spreadsheets and analyze data. Spreadsheets are part of the modern business world, meaning someday you’ll have to look at one. The kinds of features you need from your spreadsheet application can vary, though, with many users never coming close to needing the robust features of Microsoft Office’s Excel. For those of us who aren’t accountants crunching numbers daily, Microsoft Office, including Excel, can be prohibitively expensive. You’re looking at paying at least $6 per month for...

Marketing today is a multifaceted discipline. To be excellent at it, marketing organisations must rely on a number of resources to power the perfect combination of science and art that is needed to drive impactful outcomes. While these encompass an extensive repertoire of talent, partners, platforms and integrations, any seasoned marketer can tell you that nothing is more valuable than direct access to data and the technology needed to harness it. However, using data and technology in the right ways can be a learning curve for even the most sophisticated of marketers, and strong collaborations with CIOs, CDOs, CTOs and...

Retailer Hush grew quickly during the coronavirus pandemic and the retailer’s IT systems struggled to cope with new demand. Like so many others, the firm, which sells its products online in the UK and Europe and in John Lewis department stores, needed to integrate disparate data sources in order to tap into accurate insight on sales trends and finance figures to people across the business. A decision was made to build more in-house technology capability in order to boost data access and increase business agility. According to  Brad Woodward, Head of Data at the women's lifestyle firm...

On this episode of The Marketer’s Journey, I interview Wendy Steinle, CMO at Domo, a cloud software company. Wendy has worked across a variety of sectors prior to her time at Domo, including positions at Adobe, Novell, and Degreed. Throughout her career, she’s tied her love of words with data to become a well-rounded marketer and storyteller. Wendy believes strongly in needing a robust content marketing strategy that connects with people throughout the buyer's journey—and that positioning yourself in a place of trust is key to conversion. In today’s episode, we discuss the importance of having a variety of experiences...

Explore the list of the 10 business analytics companies of 2023 in the big data sector Data analytics and visualization software typically occupy the top of the big data “technology stack” in diagrams and visual representations of IT systems for big data. They are the product devices that business analytics experts, business analytics companies, and data laborers use to acquire understanding and understanding from the dramatically developing volumes of information organizations are creating today and to share that information all through an association...

A growing number of states are turning the screws on Big Tech, the internet and social media. On Wednesday, Montana became the first state to completely ban TikTok, although many are skeptical that the controversial new legislation will be enforceable. Other moves include laws that aim to tighten regulations on social media platforms in general, like those recently enacted by Arkansas and Utah. There are three worthwhile goals that appear to be at least part of the motivation behind legal maneuvers like these: preventing...

Rapid advancements in technology over the past decade have expedited the availability of big data to small business. The days when big data was an asset exclusive to large corporations with significant budgets, and teams of specialist resources, are over. All SMEs are aware that large amounts of data, and figuring out what to do with it, are not problems unique to big business. Economic uncertainty and reduced or flat budgets can bring digital transformation in SMEs to a screeching halt. Before I joined Domo, and long before I started in SaaS, I ran my own business and worked in...

Arlington, Virginia-headquartered Kinetica, a company providing an analytic database to unlock value from spatial, time-series and temporal data, today announced an integration with OpenAI’s ChatGPT. The move, the company explains, enables “conversational querying” where enterprise users can enter natural language prompts to query their data assets. Previously, the process involved writing complex structured query language (SQL) queries, which restricted analytics to a select group of users and took time. In order to perform a conversational query, an enterprise user has to go on Kinetica’s workbench UI and ask a question about their proprietary data, be it something plain and simple...

Digitization has overhauled much of the business world, and in departments like finance or marketing you’d find most employees are hooked on apps that serve up-to-date information on the status of their programs and connect them with others on their team for real-time collaboration. But in many places across the retail ecosystem, an employee’s day to day can still feel very manual and their connection back to others in the business is irregular at best. We recently asked workers how tech and data access impacts their work experience and found that tech gaps are prevalent, especially for those that don’t...

Domo develops its namesake “data experience” platform, a cloud-based, mobile data analytics and visualization system that provides decision makers with real-time business data from a wide range of operational applications and data sources. In March the American Fork, Utah-based company debuted Domo Cloud Amplifier, which the company says helps users unlock data across multiple cloud platforms using a single virtual layer. On March 6, Domo said that John Mellor, who served as Domo’s chief strategy officer for three years and then CEO for more than a year, was stepping down and that Josh James, the company’s founder and original CEO,...