Training in Business

Training in Business Resources and Trends

What Do I Need to Build Reports, Dashboards and Scorecards?

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High on the list of challenges for any data visualization project is the need to show results that clearly communicate information and help users identify areas for improvement. Without providing the information for business leaders to act on findings and “steer the ship to safer waters,” Business intelligence (BI) projects are nothing more than interesting, and far from essential. If you’re a BI developer, like me, you’d probably much rather be considered essential than plain old “interesting.” It’s that simple. But it can also be quite complicated with all of the moving parts and team members required in each stage of a data warehouse, not to mention all of the choices available to developers.

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Capturing Hearts and Minds with Education-based Marketing

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Your sales training challenge: Your sales associates need to believe in your product and know when to recommend it to customers. But what happens when your sales associates are not yours alone, and they have countless other brands from which to choose to meet customers’ needs? You need to win their hearts and minds so they promote your brand first.

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Avaya Aura Communication Branch Gateway Standard Local Survivability

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Standard Local Survivability (SLS) is a cost-effective alternative well suited to a branch location that does not have sophisticated telephony needs. In contrast to the server-based survivability features, SLS operates entirely from the H.248 Branch Gateway and requires a data set comprised of CM translations (survivable ARS analysis and configuration data). When you log into a H.248 Media Gateway via CLI you have likely noticed the screen message “Survivable-call-engine is disabled.” Let’s take a look at what this means.

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How to Monitor VMware vSphere Distributed Switches

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It’s not uncommon for different teams to be managing the virtual switch and physical switch configurations. This can make it very difficult to troubleshoot unless each configuration parameter has been gone through manually. There have been enhancements to the vSphere Distributed Switch over the past few years to address these operational challenges.

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